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

66 PERIOD IV. A.
IV. A.
Plates 27-29.
KINGS.
Plate 27. 1. Persia. A/". Ohv. King, with bow, quiver, and spear, kneeling;
behind, wreath ; in front, M . Rev. Incuse. Double daric. Wt.
257-6 grs.
The double darics form a link between tbe coinage of
the Persian empire and that of the successors of Alexander.
The presence of Greek letters or symbols upon all of them
renders it hardly possible that they can have been issued
by Darius.
2. Alexander the Great. M. Tetradrachm. Ohv. Head of
Herakles. ^ev. AAEZANAPOY. Zeus Aetophoros ; in the field,
a head in Phrygian cap ; and under throne, a triskeles (Miiller,
CI. ii. Cilicia). Wt. 265 grs.
3. Alexander the Great. N. Stater. Ohv. Head of Athena.
Eev. AAEZANAPOY. Mike, holding wi*eath and trophy-stand.
In field, J? D {ex Aradd) ; and ^, monogram of Aradus. Wt.
133-1 grs.
This coin was probably struck in B.C. 310, when the
throne of Alexander had become vacant by the death of
Alexander the son of Koxana in 311.
4. Alexander the Great. M. Tetradrachm. Usual types.
Monogram of Aradus under throne ; struck between B.C. 330 and
280. Wt. 265 grs.
5. Alexander the Great. M. Tetradrachm. In front of Zeus,
forepart of ram ; under throne, AA. Wt. 263-7 grs.
The ram is the badge of Damascus, for which AA also
stands.
6. Alexander the Great. M. Tetradrachm with name of Ace
[Acre] in Phoenician characters and the date 27 of the Seleucid era,
which commenced B.C. 312. This coin was therefore struck ia
B.C. 286. Wt. 258 grs.
7. Alexander the Great. M,. Tetradrachm with feeding horse
in the field of the reverse. Wt. 264-4 grs.
Coins of this class are frequently found at Hamadan
(Ecbatana), in the neighbourhood of which place were the
famous Nisaean Plains, where, according to Strabo, as
many as 50,000 brood mares were pastured for the royal
stables.