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

80 PERIOD V. B.
29. Euboea. Carystus. Af. Ohv. Head of Herakles, bearded.
Rev. KAPY. Bull reclining ; above, trident ; beneath, club. Wt.
49-3 grs.
The style of the head of Herakles on this coin is distinctly
later than that of the silver coins of the same
type. It may be as late as the beginning of the second
century B.C.
30. Carystus. M. Obv. Head of Antiochus III. (?), bound with oakwreath
entwined with diadem. Eev. KAPYZTiriN. Nike, in
biga. Wt. 98-5 grs.
This coin was probably struck in B.C. 191, when
Antiochus was in Euboea.
31. ChalciS. 2R,. Obv. Female head, wearing earring ; two long
locks of hair hang down her neck, behind, liev. XAAKI. Eagle,
standing with open wings, and contending with serpent. Magis-
trate's name, M E N EA H . Wt. 84-8 grs.
The spread fabric of this coin, the treatment of the hair
on the obverse, and the expression in the attitude of the
eagle, all point to a late period.
32. Chalcis. JR. Obv. Head of queen as Hera, veiled. liev.
XAAKIAEON. Demetex*, holding torch, in quadriga; beneath,
ZENOKPATHZ. The whole in oak-wreath. Wt. 254-5 grs.
The head on the obverse may be an idealised portrait of
the lady of Chalcis whom Antiochus III. married there, in
B.C. 191 ; the reverse may commemorate the games held on
the occasion of the nuptials.
33. Eretria. M. Obv. Head of Artemis. Eev. EPETPIEON.
Bull reclining; beneath, OANIAZ. Wt, 86-5 grs.
Probably not earlier than B.C. 200.
34. Pares. JR. Obv. Female head, bound with crossing bands. Hev
riAPI. Goat. Magistrate's name, A NAZI K. Wt. 118 grs.