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58 PERIOD IV. A. A more probable rendering is tbat of Sir Henry Howorth, who reads the name on the obverse Phrataphernes, who was satrap of Parthia under Darius Codomannus and Alexander the Great. 16. Parthia. N. Obv. Head of Zeus. Hev. ANAPAFOPOY. Warrior, in quadriga, accompanied by Nike, who drives the horses. Wt. 131-9 grs. This and the preceding coin were found at an old fort on a tongue of land at the confluence of two rivers which flow into the Oxus. One or more princes named Andragoras were supreme in Parthia between B.C. 330 and 250. 17. India. Sophytes. JR. Obv. Helmeted head of king. Eev. ZnYTOY. Cock. Wt. 58-2 grs. Sophytes was an Indian prince in the Panjab, who submitted to Alexander. In the time of Seleucus, whose coins he imitated (cf. obv. of 14), he would appear to have been an independent ruler. 18. Lysimachus. A/". Obv. Head of Alexander, deified, with horn of Ammon, and diadem. Hev. BAZIAEHZ AYZIMAXOY. Athena Nikephoros, seated. Wt, 130 grs. This coin has an anchor in the exergue, perhaps the mint-mark of the town of Ancore, in Bithynia, which was rebuilt by Antigonus, B.C. 316, and which Lysimachus renamed Nicaea, in honour of his first wife. 19. Lysimachus. JR. Tetradrachm. Types as on No. 18, with the bee, the mint-mark of Ephesus, in the field. Wt. 260 grs. 20. Egypt. Alexander IV., B.C. 323-311. M. Obv. Head of Alexander the Great, wearing a headdress composed of an elephant's scalp, i^eu. AAEZANAPOY. Zeus Aetophoros, seated. Wt. 265-1 grs. 21. Egypt. Alexander IV. Obv. Similar. Bev. AAEZAN- APOY. Athena fighting. In field, eagle on thunderbolt, badge of Ptolemy. Wt. 241-1 grs. These two coins were struck by Ptolemy Soter, as governor of Egypt, in the name of Alexander IV., the son of Alexander the Great by Eoxana. The Athena on the reverse is perhaps a representation of the statue of Athena Alkis at Pella, and is a symbol of sovereignty over Macedon. 22. Egypt. Ptolemaeus I. Soter, B.C. 306-284. Obv. Head of Ptolemy, diademed, and wearing aegis. Jtev. flTOAEMAlOY BAZIAEaZ. Eagle on thunderbolt. Wt. 228-2 grs.
B.C. 336-280. 69 Ptolemseus adopted the title of king in B.C. 306. He struck coins not only in Egypt, but in Cyprus, Cyrenaica, and otlier parts. CITIES. Plate 29. 23. Amastris. JR. Obv. Head of Mithras ? wearing laureate Phrygian cap. JRev. AMAZTPIEON. Seated figure, Anaitis or Aphrodite, wearing modius and holding Nike. Wt. 141-8 grs. Amastris, in Paphlagonia, was named after the niece of Darius Codomannus, who married Dionysius of Heraclea, B.C. 306-302, and after his death Lysimachus, who shortly afterwards abandoned her for Arsinoe, when she retired to Heraclea. This coin was probably struck after her death, at the city which bore her name. On an example in the collection of M. Six, of Amsterdam, reading AMAZTPIOZ BAZIAIZZHZ, the figure on the reverse holds Eros, instead of Nike. 24. Cius. Af. ()6u. Head of Apollo. i?et;. ArNHNIAHZ. Prow. In field, club and eagle. Wt. 131*8 grs. All the gold staters known of this Bithynian town came from the great find at Saida, which consisted almost entirely of staters of Alexander, struck before B.C. 310. It is probable that the coins of Cius were struck during the lifetime of Alexander. 25. Heraclea. Dionysius. M. Obv. Head of Dionysus. Hev. AIONYZIOY. Herakles erecting a trophy. Wt. 148-4 grs. Dionysius and Timotheus were tyrants of Heraclea, in the time of Alexander; after the death of his brother Timotheus, Dionysius reigned alone. He married Amastris, and died in B.C. 302. The types of the obverse and reverse refer respectively to the names of the tyrant and the city. 26. Heraclea. M. Obv. Head of Herakles, in lion's skin. Bev. HPAKAEQCTAN]. Dionysus, seated, holding cantharus and thyrsus bound with ivy. Wt. 254-4 gi-s. The types of this coin are suggested by the tetradrachms of Alexander. It is of the time of Lysimachus, who restored autonomy to the people of Heraclea, and introduced a coinage on the Attic standard, in place of the Persic standard hitherto in use there. 27. Cyzicus. ^. Obv. Head of Demeter or Persephone; beneath, tunny. Rev. KYXI. Apollo, seated on omphalos, and resting his elbow on lyre ; he holds a patera. In the field, a cock. Wt. 192 grs.
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