Note 797 — Chapter VI · Argos

For Aegina as the first place in Greece to coin see Pindar, Isthm. IV. (V.), 1–3:

Μᾶτερ Ἀελίου πολυώνυμε Θεία

σέο γ’ ἕκατι καὶ μεγασθενῆ νόμισαν

χρυσὸν ἄνθρωποι περιώσιον ἄλλων.

The statement of the Et. Mag. s.v. Εὐβοικὸν νόμισμα that “Pheidon king of Argos struck a gold coinage in Euboea, a place in Argos,” is manifestly a hopeless confusion. For the Aeginetan tortoise as the coin of the Peloponnesus see Pollux IX. 74.