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

74 PERIOD V. A.
Plate 39. 21-27. Bactria. (21) N. Diodotus. Rev. Zeus, hurling thunderbolt.
Wt. 128-3 grs. (22) AT. EutliydeimiS. Eev. Herakles, seated.
Wt. 129 grs. (23) M. DemetrillS. Rev. Herakles, crowning
himself. Wt. 259-5 grs. (24) M. Euthydemus II. Rev.
Herakles, standing. Wt. 260-7 grs. (25) M. Antimachus.
Rev. Poseidon, standing, holding trident and palm. Wt.
262-3 grs. (26) M. Agathocles. Rev. BAZIAEYONTOZ
AfAOOKAEOYZ AIKAIOY. Zeus, hurling thunderbolt. O^y.
AiOAOTOY ZHTHPOZ. Head of Diodotus. Wt. 263-5 grs.
(27) M. Agathocles. Rev. Same inscription. Herakles,
seated. Obv. EY0YAHMOY. 0EOY. Head of Euthydemus.
Wt. 261-2 grs.
This remarkable series of coins furnishes us with the
names of the successors of Alexander's generals in Bactria
and India, from about B.C. 250, the date of the separation
of Bactria from the Seleucid kingdom under Diodotus as
an independent king, down to the time of Antiochus the
Great of Syria. Agathocles, on the two specimens above
described, places the heads of his predecessors, Diodotus
and Euthydemus, on his coinage, but there are other
specimens with his own portrait.
Plate 40. 28-34. Egypt. (28) A^. ohv. AAEAnN. Ptolemy II.
and Arsinoe II. Rev. OEflN. Ptolemy I. and Berenice
I. wt. 428-6 grs. Ptolemy Soter and Berenice
were deified after their deaths, and entitled ©EOl
ZOTHPEZ. Arsinoe was sister and second wife of
Ptolemy II., B.C. 285-247. (29) N. Arsinoe II. Rev.
APZINOHZ IAAAEA0OY. Double cornucopiae. Wt. 429 grs.
(30) A/. Ptolemy III. (Euergetes), B.C. 247-222.
itev. riTOAEMAlOY BAZIAEOZ. Cornucopia, surmounted
by semicircle of rays. Wt. 429-5 grs. (31) A/. Berenice II.
wife of Ptolemy III. i?eu. BEPENIKHZ BAZIAIZZHZ.
Cornucopiae. In field, bee. Perhaps struck at Ephesus. Wt. 427*9
grs. (32) A^. Ptolemy IV. (Philopator), B.C. 222-205.
Rev. HTOAEMAIOY ct>IAOnATOPOZ. Eagle on thunderbolt.
Wt. 428-3 grs. (33) A/". Arsinoe III., wife and sister
of Ptolemy IV. Rev. APZINOHZ ci>iAOnATOPOZ.
Cornucopiae. Wt. 427-9 grs. (34) N. Ptolemy V. (Epiphanes),
B.C. 205-181. Rev. HTOAEMAIOY BAZIAEOZ.
Eagle on thunderbolt. Wt. 429 grs.
These magnificent Egyptian gold coins bear authentic
and striking portraits of the reigning monarchs, not,
as is generally the case with the silver money, the
traditional portrait of the founder of the dynasty.