Alliance Coins Público Deposited
A name given to cer- tain coins of Greece and Asia Minor, which were issued by a joint agreement between two or more cities. See Head (Introduc. ? 17).
Among the earliest types of Alliance pieces are those of the federal coinage of Rhodes, Cnidus, Samos, and Ephesus, B.C. 394-387. Each bore the type of its city on the reverse; and on the obverse a figure of the infant Heracles strangling the snakes, and the legend (Greek words).
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)