A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients ...

94 PERIOD VI. A.
arcli of Titus, and I am myself now inclined to assign all
these shekels and half-shekels to the time of the first
Revolt of the Jews under Nero. The reverse-type is
supposed by some to portray Aaron's rod that budded.
32. Bactria. Eucratides, circa B.C. 180-150. JR. Obv.
Bust of king, helmeted. Hev. BAZIAEOZ MEFAAOY
EYKPATIAOY. The Dioscuri, on horseback, prancing. Wt.
258-2 grs.
33. Bactria. Heliocles, after circa B.C. 150. Son of Eucratides.
M. Obv. Bust of king, diademed. Hev. BAZIAEQE
HAIOKAEOYZ AIKAIOY. Zeus, standing, holding thunderbolt
and sceptre. Wt. 261-2 grs.
34. Parthia. Arsaces YI. (Mithradates I.), B.C. 174-136.
M. Obv. Head of king. Hev. BAZIAEI^Z MEfAAOY
APZAKOY 4)IAEAAHN0Z. Herakles holding wine-cup and
club. Date 173 of Seleucid era = B.C. 140. Wt. 246 grs.
Probably struck at some Greek city in or near Baby-
lonia.
35. Egypt. Ptolemy VI. Philometor, B.C. 181-146. M,
Obv. Head of Ptolemy Soter, diademed, and wearing aegis. Hev.
nTOAEMAlOY BAZIAEOZ. Eagle, on thunderbolt. Wt.
219 grs.
Struck at Paphos, in Cyprus, in the twenty-eighth year
of his reign = B.C. 154-153.