Figs. 373 to 376.—Greek. From Barthelemy.
Fig. 377.—British. From Akerman.
Fig. 378.—British. From Evans.
Figs. 379 to 384.—British (Channel Islands). From Barthelemy.
On the coins of King Janus of Sicily there figured a dove; jonah, yuneh, or Ione are the Hebrew and Greek terms for dove; the Ionian Greeks were worshippers of the dove, and the consociation of St. Columbe Kille or the “little dove of the church” with the Hebridean island of Iona is presumptive evidence of the worship of the dove in Iona. In the Rhodian Greek coins here illustrated the reverse represents the rhoda or rose of Rhodes, and the obverse head may be connoted with the story of St. Davy with the dove settled on his shoulder: that the dove was also an English emblem is obvious from the British coins, Figs. 377 to 384; the dove will also be found frequently introduced on the contemned sceattae illustrated ante, [page 364].