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COLLECTION

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MEDALS

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WHICH HAVE NOT YET BEEN PUBLISHED WHERE HE ARE LITTLE KNOWN.

A P A RI S,

At H. L. GuERiN & L. F. Delatour, rue Saint James, in Saint Thomas Aquinas.

M. Dec. L X 1 1.

With Approval & Privilege of the King.

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Explanation of the Title Fleuron.

X-» 'A. Vi GNETTE contains a Medium Medal

bron"^, which has not yet been published, La tête

covered with a Phrygian cap that you can see there

reverse of that of the Emperor Gordian-VÏQ, represents

slot fans doubt Midas, king of Phrygia, whose thi-

fatory fahuleufe ejl known » The legend your. kticthn.

MiAAEAN. shows that non-feeling ceft of end

name of the town where this Medal was

hit, but she claimed to have been forced by

this King, who, Eufèbe vein, & other Authors >

lived 700 years before Christianity.

There are two other medals which represent tries a completely reliable head there with the legend MiAAc. BAciAeTc. IS ujie u been reported poT Spom and another fi found in the King's Cabinet,

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Explanation of the Vigiiette.

The o N has had a reprefined in this P^ignette a silver medallions from this collection, which appear to be currencies that the Kings of Perfi struck in Syria, while they were there pojfeffèurs before the reign of Alexander, He efi of less confident that they were found in Syria, & that: The characters they contain say Phoenicians.

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Explanation of a Gold Medal, which

fert de Cul-de-lampe at the last

page of this work.

Although the Medal which was placed at the end of this work has no legend, it eflaifed to recognize by its manufacture which is Egyptian, & by the head which is represented there girded and a dia- deme, than that of one of the Lagid Kings who reigned in Egypt, Q*efi the same look of head & the same features of old age that you see in the Medals of the first Ptolemies, who rejfem- shout a lot. The different cults that you find in judge to whom these Medals belong them, when they contain neither titles nor other specific brands to differentiate you, do not allow nor are we able to know what is precisely the one who represented this Medal ^ of which no such thing has been published until prefint.

The Moiffimaeur who is on the proud back of the country with a sickle there is not a common type. We don't found him as a & Medal (t Amonin-ViQ, in great brom^^ struck similarly in Egypt, of which fertility is uniquely defined by this type.

*■ Note. This Gold Medal for the small module eft. of a perfect* confiKvaÙQi}: eUe> pefc jS: gcaiioa..

COLLECTION

COLLECTION

FROM

MEDALS OF KINGS,

Which has not yet been published,

O V

FOREWORD

I i ES MEDALS included in the twenty- two plates from this Collection, are part of a considerable coUion of medals of Greek kings & others, of which we will find the record to the flight of the boards in which we believed have to contact him, because he will question

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2: “Ar A ir T-P R op o S, in the fleeting remarks of some ient, & who do not

: engrave only those which

have not yet been

s who have already been,

others who do little

known, & which seemed to deserve some

remarks to make them better known.

We strive; difficult to report in these reports marks everything that history teaches us regarding the Kings that the medals represent. We strive only to observe what they have a singular form, and what the Anti- quarries who spoke about it; & when we are not in their opinion, we fully expose the let's reason as we know, we're founded to think differently.

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EUROPE.

KINGS OF MACEDONIA.

ALEXANDRE T.

jJans the printed catalog of medals =

rare of the late Mr. Le Bret, we find the defcrip- Plate tion of the first medal reported here. The Father Panel, author of this catalog, attributed it to steamed, with reason, to Alexander I, fourth ay.eul of Alexander the great. The factory of This medal demonstrates its antiquity. The art of represent figures on the reverse side of medals had not yet entered Macedonia, & we also didn't know any other means of placing them in the corner where they see them being hit, than to hold them there by a square which was engraved there for this purpose. The ebrique perfected it fucceflively, çom^ I can see it by the medals of the Kings fled" vants.

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4 Collection of Medals.

'We do not know of any older than

Plate kings than those of Alexander I, king of Macé- doine, & de Gelon, king of Syracuiè in Sicily; the reign of the first having begun the year 475^ before the Christian era, & the reign of the fertile fourteen years rather. It's not that he doesn't smell find older ones: the hifloire recalls door that he was struck in Greece by mad Phidon, king of Argos, from the year 8^5 before Jesus Christ; at least we have several Greek cities, which by their manufacture are deemed prior to those of Alexander I & Gelon; but they do not contain anything further which determines like these, their age, that is to say, the time they were struck.

The fertile medal of Alexander I, which is in the catalog, does not differ from the first 4|ue by the module.

ARCHELAUS I.

»-

Fr. Frœlich published a medal similar to the fertility of those who make here reported, except that the fienne has the legend APXEAAo, in the square which contains the goat. This medal of Father Froelich has no place

Revue OF Medals, jj

to doubt that this fans legend does not appear:

hold aufli to Archelaiis I, since they will feref- Plate fully appear.

The third & fourth have no neither is legend; but they represent u Macedonian on horseback, like the previous one; dç appearing to be of the same fabric, there is every reason to believe that they also belong to Archelaiis. . These medals make it known that crazy people reign, which lasted from the year 413 until Tan 5^pp before the Christian era, the ^brick was a little perfected. They still have ^ in truth, a square on the reverse which refers to hold them in the corner by hitting them; but he in most there is a figure represented in middle of the quarter, favoir, a goat in the some, & in the others the anterior part of a: lion, or a cockroach.

A M Y N TA S IIL

None of the medals were deflinated. of Amyntas, because they are very well known. Father Hardouin awarded a silver one of this king, Amyntas I, who had reigned in Macé- doine from the year 537 BC & he obfeved

6 Collection of Medals.

'.. that, given this antiquity, it was the oldest Plate of all known medals. But it seems,

by the manufacture of this medal, which is the same as that of the medals of Archelaiis I, that it cannot be from such a distant time: it it would be better to report it to Amyntas II, if he had reigned more than a year, or if he had something memorable in my reign; but everything contributes to the judgment that it is, like the others, of Amyntas III, who reigned at two repetitions from the year 35?o until the year 371 before the Christian era.

PERDICCAS III,

^*

The o N only finds the medals which are here attributed to PerdiccasIII, have been pu^ bliated. They do not, like the preceding ones, your, square on the reverse to be retained fur the corner, when they were hit; If they resemble, by their manufacture, the medals of bronze of Philip II, who reigned after him.

PHILIPPE IL

Y N only had two medals engraved

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Philip II, one of gold, and the other of silver; the ' others being common. The first efl remark- Plate quable by its smallness & by the delicacy of the manufactures; it is fertile, on the contrary, only effective by his rudefle, & there is every reason to doubt that

. this one belongs to Philip II: it reflects ble, by its manufacture & by the head of a woman in- decorated with poiffons, with silver medals from the town of Eipagne called Emporia. by the Latins. It is also very similar to the daggers which were made by the Carthagi- nois in Sicily; but history does not provide us nothing that could make one think that someone had hit .medals for Philip II in these countries. If there was one whose title we were wondering about of BA2IAEÛ2, that Philippe, father of Perfée"^ has always taken in fury, one could judge that she would have been struck for him in Sicily from:- rant the war which fled the league that this Prince

. made with Hannibal against the Romans.

Father Hardouin, Father Frœlich & Queir that others attribute all the medals which have for, legend ba 21 abuse *i A I n n o T. There are also Antiquaries who refer to it similarly those which with the simple legend ♦lAinnpr, represent a young head

8 Collection of Medals,

girt with the diadem, or crowned with laurel, Board q^j covered with lion skin. We can oppose

to the reasons they allege to support their opinion, i"*. We don't see why Philip II could not have taken the title BAsi AEAs aufli although Alexandre fon son. He was -became quite powerful, & had made enough of conquests to claim this title, just that inufité in Greek for medals; we give it to him no fans doubt his time when talking about him. If the ancient authors also give it in their writings. 2°, If the gold medals which have a crippled head on one side, and on the other side the type of Viâoire with the legend BAsiAEAs «lAippoT, stole by Philippe Aridéc) those who have the same head & the same type with the simple legend “Ainnor, should he belong equally, since both other women resemble each other perfectly, both in terms of head & by the type, than by the shape, the ma- size, weight & manufacture. The other me- gold daggers, which with the legend ♦lAinnor, have for type one ch^ pulled by two horses that leads a man who is standing in the chariot, represent on the other side a young head, which it could be that of Aridae, fleeing the same

antique dealers j

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antique dealers, some of whom attribute ====! similarly the quinaries which represent ^^^Jf^*^^ identical young heads crowned with laurel, *

or covered with lion skin; strong that he refute their opinion, we would not have a gold medal from Philippe IL However all these medals have always been looked at like coins that he had made in very large quantities, by means of mines of gold which had been discovered in the past, & of which he was the flower. There are still some very - frequently in all countries which were inhabited or frequented by the Greeks by the Romans. They also had lessons in each other; & payments more confident they made do with these mon- golden nuts that we called Philippi, fans diftindtion neither of the legends nor of the types which they contained. There is no need to be able to pofer that a prodigious fie was made quantity for Aridaeus, who was only king of name. He was treated by the regents of the royal me rather as a slave than as a rçi, & we find nothing in my life “Se lès adions, qui relates to the vidoire, nor to other types than. contain the ^^n queflion medals.

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'3*. It is the same with those of money and Pi. A N CH E bronze which we want to attribute to the same Aridae;

that is to say, of those whose legend is, BAsiAEor «lAinnoT, & those which represent a young head surrounded by a diadem or covered skin of Hon. There are many of these me- coins which have only the simple legend, “lAinnor, & it would therefore be necessary for them to inform him go off in the same way; which is all the more less likely, that they do in a big way number,

4°. Regardless of Phi-medals lippe II which were spread everywhere, the im- less quantity than Alexander the Great had had it made for him while he was alive, to sees the Regents of the Kingdom well after fa death, so as not to have the need to strike per on behalf of Philippe Arillée. If what- some of which can be attributed to him with foundation, these are those of bronze which, with a young drunken head & the type of a ship, have the legend, ba. ♦!, & the monogram ^; not that these two letters linked together mark the name of Aridaea, as Haym has it thought, but because it's the monogram from the city of Aradus, where he may have been struck with

PLmckelP^e

.. irJtaau^

Pa-ducas-

Collection of Medals, ii

medals for him, instead of which we can't === to say that he was struck by it in this city for Planch Philippe IL It must be observed that among these forms

your medals, there are others all women- bbles, which, with the letters ba, have the monograms Kl & l^l gram /? , from which it follows that they do not con- do not take into account certain brands that faff know who they belong to.

There are some who seem to belong more to Philippe, father of Perfée, that of Philippe II. Such are those who represent Pallas of- one end, throwing a javelin, and who have on the other side, the head of Jupiter surrounded by a crown oak; & those which have a button on the reverse Macedonian clier. We do not find fur medals of the first kings of Macedonia head of Jupiter crowned with oak, which is that of Jupiter Dodonean; & the shield Ma- Cedonian only sees the medals of An- tigone, of Démetrius fon fils, & of Philippe father of Perfeus, & not for those of the kings of Previous Macedonia.

B

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT board.

The gold medal & the first two of silver contain, with the legend aaehanapot, another legend in Phoenician caradleres. These medals were already defined, when they were indicated to Mr. Abbot Barthélémy, who reported two in his Letter addressed to authors of the Journal des Savants (printed in month of August ïj6o): we can only remember make your judicious observations on these matters Phoenician people.

The fourth & fifth medal which each contain a legend in characters different & barbaric, made attributed to Alexan- dre, because they entirely resemble the other medals which have the legend,.AAESANApoTc; & there is every reason to judge that these characters unknown people express the same name from which they take up space. It appears by these medals ^ by others who were struck in Cilicia, in Pamphylia, in Perfe, &c, that most of peoples of Afie, who spoke different languages rents, had aufïï, like the ancient people ples of Italy & Elpagne, specific characters

Collection of Medals, 13

particular & different; but these caraderes which do not ===== fè are conferred that fur their coins, re- Plate will always be unintelligible, for lack of others ^^* monuments capable of making them better known? be.

The fifth medal is only reported here because it contains a name of Magiflrat, & that it is very rare to see names of Magiflrats fur medals of Kings. We have no knowledge that of another medal of Alexander reported by Father Panel, through which we see the name AiKHTOP, There is another here from Lyfîmachus with the name skostokot, which was known to Goltzius. It should be noted that as this The fifth medal is on the reverse, in a gold ronne, a vafe of a particular form, which we see represented almost all the mis- dailles of the city of Cyme in Aeolia, from where we recognizes that it is in this city that this one was hacked.

It should also be noted that as most other medals of Alexander, airïfi that fur this one those of Philippe, my father, and several others. others kings of Macedonia, Syria & Egypt, there has different marks which denote the place where “lies had been made. These brands make

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r I of three species. Some confine into fym-

Plank of special crops that certain towns had

adopted; the others in monograms;

We understand, by the name of fymboles, the animal figures & other lines than several cities put up their signs, and as the coins which were minted. Such do, among other things, the fleeting symbols that we see fur the medals of Alexander; favoir, the Iphinx which defined the island of Chios; the diluting griffin the island of Teos & the city of Abdere; the head of lion in profile, Cyzicus & Cnidus; the head of a horse val, Aegean of Cilicia; the bee, Ephefè; the role, Rhodes yew; the ship's anchor, Ancyra; the double axe, the yew tree of Tenedos; the torch lights mea, Amphipolis of Macedonia, &c. He does not wanted, for lack of fufïifant clues, to determine what are the cities doing that have struck the other medals of Alexander containing different rents other figs, such as those otpfon sees a thunderbolt, a trident, a fcorpion. a dolphin, a bow, a caduceus, a crown, a cafque, a star, the bow of a ship, etc. Some ancient authors and several modern ones

Collection of medals. 15

spoke of these forts of fignes or fymboles, == fans that you can judge by everything they do on the board said what the vÛles do precisely where • - -' were struck the medals which contain these symbols; because the same symbol has often adopted by different cities, & particularly by the colonies which had preserved, for the most part, the symbols of the cities where they originated from. It is by this reason, that we find the owl reading the me- dailles 'of the colonies of Athens, the pegafe fur those of the colonies of Corinth, &c.

Monograms are the fruitful form of marks that we see on Ale-t's medals xandre, as well as many others. They usually candied in two or three let- very related together, most of which make efli-r ined to be the initials of the name of the cities where they were hit; but as there was beautiful-^ coup of towns which bore the same name, & others whose names began with mênv&s letters > he reveals doubts by rap^* port to those of these cities to which these strong monograms must be assigned: there has other fi complicated ones, & fi strangely conilruits y that it is not poflible to form

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j6 Collection of Medals.

certain names; we even find more Plate of flowers where no letters can be distinguished, except II* way that they appear to be rather mar- that of monetary, that of letters composing names of cities, kings, or magistrates. Different antique dealers, who tried to give the explanation of one and the other, they find you don't always have the same opinion, & have interpreted the same monogram differently. Father Frœlich, according to them, collected one large blackboard in a table that he added with their interpretation at the end of the fertile edition of the Annals of the Kings of Syria: what what were the knowledge and fagacity of this famous author, it does not appear that we must rely entirely on their interpretations. tations, many of which are keenly arbitrating milked, and therefore uncertain. If there is a few rims of these monograms which are found wind actually furnishes the medals of the cities, to which he attributes them, we see many suddenly others are completely different from others medals from the same cities; & such monogram- my fonts commonly attributed to certain towns, like P^ in Apamea, /? in Arade, HP i Heraclea, TSF to Oponte, S to Seleucia, W

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in Tarfe, &c, which they frequently find ment fur medals from other cities. All Plan<:he this makes its lignification equivocal & in- ^ * certain; & they must not be deemed to belong really hold on to the cities for the medals what they find, that as much as the medals which contain them, reflect, by their type & by their febric, to other medals of the same cities whose name is expressed in the legend; because when these monograms make fur medals containing other names of cities, they only act as brands of monetary, or initials of magidrats' names. We could think that there would perhaps be was put to mark the union of the cities which has the medals struck, with those which make denoted by these monograms; but it seems to- which it would be difficult to provide evidence. There are, however, monograms whose in- interpretation presents no difficulty, & which must be regarded as certain: this make those who find themselves fur medals- the autonomous cities, whose names make well recognizable by the letters which include poof these monograms, such as do the following: favoir, PT defining Antioch fur

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rOronte, XTAchaia, T^ Fatras, iÇp Smyme, Plate ^ Tyre, iffe Pergamon, H*. S. Heraclea ^ ^* Sintique & a few others, but in small name* bre. On the other hand, what can encourage us to do better know the cities that are defaced by these strong monograms, it is necessary to be precise from which countries the medals come, & in what places they were found; with this attention, we will distinguish between the different towns of the same name, those which have uses monograms, which contain the first letters of their names.

The third type of monograms that we see further the medals of Alexander, particularly rement fur those of silver, which have the type Jupiter affis, confidant in letters which make placed in front of the figure of Jupiter & fous fon ïvtgt. It is in the interpretation of these letters like the interpretation of monograms. There are very few whose fignification can be be given as certain; however fa- vants of the first order, claimed that the some mark the name of the cities where the medals were hit, & the others over the years from the reign of Alexander; & seeing that the dates formed by the letters that they saw com-

Collection of Medals, ip

me numerals, did not agree with ==== what the ancient hiflorians said about the short Plan c h duration of the reghe of this prince, they made him re- gner 54 years old, in accordance with the claimed date a medal which contains the letters a a; ItÇ, which, they said > were never afibciated to form a Greek word, & must be by confecate numeral letters forming a date. Oven square the other letters to their iyfême, they sometimes took those which are in the field of medals that they know ^ sometimes those which make Jupiter's trap crazy; & not yet finding their account in this, they resorted to the letters that meet him - fur the Bronze Medals containing other types. But if they had seen such several of those found in the col- leâion mentioned here and they would not have fans damned doubt a fyfleme that destroys the letters they contain. There is one between others which have the letters ai in the field, crazy {iege> the letters bs: the latter letters that cannot be the initials of a name Greek, should, according to the fyflem of these ^ authors > mark the year 202. Another has in the field the letter m ^ & fous le flege les

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'letters a y, which would mark or Tan-

Pl ANCHE born 40, drank in the year 430. It would be too long ■ to mention all the medals which contain the letters m, N,n,2, & others that we cannot absolutely regard as dates of regnal years. There is no need to say nothing more about the event in question, touching Alexander the great, to show that it is not sustainable. He doesn't think any more age compared to the years of reign that the same authors claim to be marked fur the medals of Seleucus 1 1, king of Syria, & fur those of Philip II, of CafTandre, & of the other kings of Macedonia up to Perfeus. There we find letters which would mark dates well beyond the years of their reigns. Philippe's medals, fur-all, contain- the letters m, N, n, & at, like those of Alexander. If some of these letters are recognized to be most likely the initials of the names of the cities, where the medals were struck, it must be admitted that we did not could still discover the true meaning of others, no more than that of most monograms. Finally the most professional interpretation bable that we can give to the letters diflPé-

Collection of Medals » ai

annuities which find fur these strong medals, ===: eft that some denote the names of cities. Board & the others names of magistrates, or of monetary. What seems to confirm it is one of these medals among others, where we find the letters n p o. in the field, & the letters hpa. besiege Jupiter: neither one nor the other Very many of these letters cannot mark dates of years. By all appearances by h? has. , was defined as the name of one of the towns called Heraclea; & by n ? o. , the name of a magistrate. H A Y M reported an Alexander medalist, which has on one side, around the head covered with a lion skin, the aacsa legend. ktic. AnoAAONiA; on the other side, the guy is sobering two women standing holding hands. The fifth medal shown here is a medal bronze medallion, which resembles several regards, to Haym's medal. There is on the side of

ia head AACBAN^OC. KTICT. AnOAAONIAT. , &i dC the other SIDEAnOAAANIATaN. K. ATCIAACaN. OMONOIA.

The guy pretends to be two standing women, who I)sign their right hands, • but they carry- each tries with their left hand, one fimulacrum of Apollo, the other that of Fortune; & there is at the bottom, between the two women, a

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altar. Father Hardouin published on his side Plate another medal which is approximately J ^' similar to that of Haym, & which has the gender on the reverse, AnoAAONiATAN. nEprAiûN. ; he judged that the city of Apollonia of which there is made double mention, was that of Carie- Haym didn't think he could flatter the A- poUony of the medalist. It seems that the city of ApoUonie of the medallion reported here, was that of Carie, as Father Hardouin thought: this city was close to that of Lyfias, located in Phrygia. Very few medals are known of the latter city.

There are a large number of medals, which on one side have, with the legend aaeeanapot, a head, sometimes naked, or surrounded by a diadem me, sometimes covered with a lion's skin, or a cafe; & on the other side, the legend

KOINON. MAKEAONÛN. B. NEnKOPAN Z CCttC legend

& their manufacture also make known that they were struck at a very late time. interior to Alexander. There is every reason to believe that they were mad during the reign of Severus Alexandre: apart from the fact that they resemble by their made from those of this Emperor, which were minted in a few towns of Macedonia,

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favoir, in PeHa & Thefiàloniki; we do',

that he saw a particular devotion to Alexandre Planche the Great, whom he reveres as a God. ^ ^' Had he been born in a temple which was his consecrated at Arce or Arcena, town of Phœni- cie, which was also called Cafarea adLihanum; & he wanted to imitate this hero, and to reflect him Well it's apparently to make him their court that the cities of Macedonia made there common there to strike these strong medals. In the large number who expressed it; we don't only knows one which contains the name of the city where she was struck: it is the one who is here defined, & which is considered unique. She has for Roik legend. makc. b. nco. bcpaian. coc This le- guy prefaves two things to obfèrve; make, the way in which the name of the town of Berhœe is written, & what the letters can mean Eoc. No other medal is known. the town of Berhœa in Macedonia; those of the town of the same name, which was in Syria, have all for legend BspoiAiaN: they are one & the other called b»/>«w« » bi/io» , & ^'^om , by the different Greek authors. It can only be in the one where the queflion medal was struck there the name of this city was pronounced differently

24 Collection of Medals,

ment, that is to say, in a softened way & Less rough board. With regard to the letters eoc which make II* in the field, they also find themselves another medal of this edition, which is ranked geated among those of cities. Father Hardouin, who had seen a similar one, thought that these letters were an era and marked the year 275, from the year jo6 of Rome, where the battle of Pharfale gave it, which year 275 falls at the end of the reign of Severus Alexander; which would confirm the window time previously advanced, that all the medals in question, were struck during the reign of this emperor, & would destroy the affection of those who claimed that we saw no era fur the medals of Greek cities (located in Europe. This is indeed the fire example of the period marked with medals from Macedonia & Greece; & we do not find nor that there was formed an era of the battle of Pharfale, from where we scored dates fur no other medal, (if this is not perhaps for those of Laodicea of Syria, which have the legend lOTAiEfiN. tan. kai. aaoaikean. , It is said that the Romans shared in four provinces of Macedonia, after having

conquered:

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conquered: each of these provinces had s struck

particular currencies. We have a lot of boards silver medals of the first; & there are ^^^ a little money from the woman in the cabinet • of the King. The bronze one, with the legend mak. t, which is defined here, was not known; a other from the third province, was published by FrœHch.

DEMETRWS POLIORCETES.

The leaking medal of Demetrius, was only delineated because it was reputed to be one of the rarest, with the head it represents slot, & the type it contains; in what way she reflects the medals of Philippe & . Ale- xandre. Father Panel is the man who cited one femblable from Cary's office.

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L r S I MA Q U E.

The gold medal of Lyfimachus, rtî- also resembles those of Philippe & Alexandre, by the cackled head which efls on one side, and speaks type of Vidloire which is on the other side. Juice- that at present no woman has been published Jable of Lyfimachus.

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fed Rmcvmil of medals^

. The small silver medal, which has no

Legend plate that the letters at, with a man II» horse; & which represents on the other side a • young head, surrounded by the diadem, resembles really close to a few medals from Philippe de of Alexander. It is attributed to Lyfimachus, not roaring of the letters a t, initials of my name; but apart from the figure of the lion that we see on the reverse of the horse, including having several bronze medals from this prince, which have as their type a pafFant lion, with the le- Gende BAsiAEns. AT2IMAXOT. Sclon Hay m > this one This should belong to Agathocles, son of Lyfimaque, both because it does not contain not the title of King, only because Lyfimachus could not be represented with a young head, given that he was already old when Alexander died. It is for this reason that Hayni attributes to Agathocles a medal which represents a head young, caffeinated, although the legend on the reverse

faith ATSIMAXOT. BASIAEOZ.

PTOLEMY CEÉAUNUS,

Most antiquarians attribute to, Ptolemy, king of Macedonia, the medals which.

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with the legend nTOAEM MOT. basiaeos, have for type a thunderbolt relating to the furnom Ceraunus, which Planch given to him by ancient authors. We don't rap- ^ • * wears none of these medals here, because they have been published; but we observe that they do factory of Cyrenaica; & that they have all beyond the lightning, in the middle of the field, the monogram A\. But the type of lightning finds fur gold medals from the Cyrenaica, with the head of Jupiter Ammpn from the other side; & we see, among several others medals struck in the same country, the mo- nogram A\, which defines, according to all appearances, the name of Magas who governed Cyrenaica for fifty years, first £bus the name of Ptolemy Philadelphus, fbii uterine brother, & fled as a sovereign, with the title of king, as he will do marked below in speaking of the kings of Cyrenaica. So they investigation medals, which are awarded jointly ly to Ptolemy Ceraunus, belong to Ptolemy Philadelphus; If it's my head that's there represented. They were made in Cy- renaic, mad the government of Magas, as it appears by the monogram of fon name they contain. He also had some hit

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; for Bérénice, her mother, as we see

Plate the same monogram.

PHILIP IV,

'The medal reported here was not

Plate published. Hercules is represented there in a way

III. singular & unusual, holding with the right hand

the horn that he had torn from the head of Ache-

Loiis, His left arm is covered with the lion's skin

Nemea, in the shape of a trophy.

P E R S É E.

This Perfée medal has no was not published either. There is another woman blable, where we see the monogram who would make it known that the Achaeans had allied with this prince, even though the history would not mention it.

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KINGS OF PIRE.

A R I s B A s.

A R I s B A s, king of Epirus, or of the Moloffes, au- ■

what tone attributes the medals reported here. Board He was the father of Neoptolemus and grandfather of Olympias.

mother of Alexander the Great, he lived in time that she was married to Philippe 1 1; & Thiftoire £sdt mention of what has been happening since crazy crazy reigns. His name is written in several ways by the authors who spoke about it; Fa see, Aryba» Se Arymbas^ by some, Afibas & Arifbas by I'm others.

These two medals, which came from Larta, resemble those of Philippe & A- Alexander by his head covered with a lion's skin, & by the types of the mafTue Se of the arc who make on the reverse. As for the legend which does not confine than in the letters apis. Strong milk that in these At that time, the Kings did not take the title of BAsiÀEas for their coins, & that the ufàge was to often only put the first letters of their names ^ such do ^ among others >

3Q JlEeUEÏL t>E MEGAJLLES^

===== those of Alexander son of Neoptolemus, of whom he Board will be discussed below. It is for all these reasons, ' that we attribute these to king Arisbas, more earlier than the city of Arisba, which was located in the Troad.

ALEX A ND RE, son of Neoptolemus.

The p. Frœlich published a medal of this Prince, similar to those who do in this collection, & which have the legend AAEs. EARLY. NE, & for typc UH lightning: beyond^ on your side, instead of a head, it is an eagle & a tripod.

Séguin also published a gold medal of A- Alexander, son of Neoptolemus, with the same type of lightning, which represents the other next to the head of Dodonean Jupiter.

PYRRHUS.

We know a lot of medals of Pyrrhus in all metals: the two of bronze reported here> have not been published.

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ALEXANDER, son of Pyrrhus. Vlkhche

The medals of Alexander, son of Pyrrhus, who are in this coUeâion, have been published. Some antique dealers have them tributed to Alexander the Great, & others to Ptolemy IX, named Alexander, king from Egypt; but it seems that they belong rather to the son of Pyrrhus, because they reflect bleat to Pyrrhus medals, both by their form & their manufacture, only by the type of Pallas throwing a javelin; this guy can't find anything iur the medals of Alexander the Great, nor fur those of the kings of Egypt.

KING OF DALMATIA.

M O s T I S.

1 There is in this collection a medal, which with the legend BAsiAEa s. mostiaos, has on one side, for type, an eagle poofed like a thunderbolt, & the monogram W; & on the other side, two heads joined together, the upper one of which is the one

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■ of a man with a beard & a crown PtANCHp ^g laurel; & the lower, that of a woman.

Father Frœjich published a similar one, which was apparently not well behaved, having read M02TIA0T. instead of mostiaos. Parlacom.- paraifon that he made some with medals of Epirus which, on one side, represent two heads similar, and on the other side an eagle adorned with even as a thunderbolt, with the legend aheipûtan, he correctly judged that the king named iiir this me- daille, of which the history makes no mention, must have reigned, law in Epirus, faith in a neighboring country, on the coast of IUyria.

The one given here is all the more curious, that it is the name known until now fent, which represents the head of Mollis surrounded by a tiara. There is every reason to believe that he reigned in Dalmatia, by the type of leather that we see the reverse, and which is represented by the same way as another medal having for metal legend, delm. We have not added here this last medal, only to make known that the leather was probably the name particular bole of Dalmatia, like the palm link the roof of Phoeijicia > the filphium of the Cyrenaica, &ç.

KING

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KING OF DYRRHACHIUM.

M O N U N I U s.

J-jA medal here reported efl: approximately similar to that which is described in the Plate printed catalog of cabinet medals ''^« by Theupolo. Father Frœlich who speaks about it to the opportunity of another medal (from Gentius king of Illyria,) believes that Monimius is the one who efl named Honunus by Livy, & M^nunius, by Athenaeus.

KING OF TEGEUS.

A L E u s.

t-“THIS MEDAL, looks similar to the one which was published by Haym, which, felon appearances > were not well conferred. He doesn't talk about the vafè that the young daughter, ready> fxefTe of Minerva, his prefect; & he took for an altar with the monogram Kl.

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KING OF CRETE

yJ N ATTRIBUTED Commonly to Minos, king Plate ^q Crete, the medals which reflect those ' which are reported here. On the left side of the fertile, we read basiaeo^; but there is reason to believe that this word was reflected from another medal, in which this one was struck: from the reflection it is whole and well preserved.

KING OF PyEONIA.

A U D O L E O N.

M-jA medal reported here is singular, Plate ^j^ ^^ that it was born resembles the medals con- naked from Audoleon, nor by the head, m by the type on the reverse > nor by the legend which only coniiftes in the initial letters ata » of the name of this prince. B^er published one, poorly preserved, similar to the other two who are in this colledion. Fr, Frœlich has one on his side

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Pyrrhus.

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published another different one; & he reported in i

at the same time all the pafTages of the old ones ^'•^^^'** authors who spoke of the kings of Pasonia.

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KINGS OF THRACE.

v--“A R Y had seen most of the medals cjul are in this coUeâion, and he made use of it in the rhifloire which he gave to the kings of Thrace, Se du Bofphore; but he does not know the roof the two which are reported here.

S E U T E S m.

This medal reflects, by its fa- brick Se by the type of the reverse, to those of; Seleucus I, who reigned at the same time in Syria.

C O T Y S F.

The medalist here brought it cft dd Cotys V. Darls the division that Augufte made of the kingdom of Thrace, after^ the death of Rhew-

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metalcès, between Cotys V & Rhefcuporis fon Flanche uncle; the first had the neighboring part of the

sea ​​; & Rhefcuporisjthe interior of the country. Like this medal was awarded to Byzantium, it only represents Cotys who had this city in my sharing; of the letter k, which is in front the head, defines its name: the monogram “R which is on the other side, in front of the head of Au- gufte, fèmble define together the names of Rhefcuporis & de Cotys, among whom he had shared the kingdom.

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s AT RO MA TE I.

THIS MEDAL was not known to Cary. It is from a grofier factory. What makes it remarkable, it is not only the quadriga led by a standing figure, type who does not see any other medal of the kings of the Bofphore, but also the monogram which is outside the chariot. It is attributed to Sauromate I; because the head doesn't look like

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SAU RO MAT E //.

Nor had Cary seen this medal. . The earliest date of all those of Sauromate II, which he reported, efl of Tyear 404, of Tere of the kings of Bof- phorus: the date of this is of the year 3^5.

- E U P A T O R.

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jCary did refer to £upator this me- daille-this ; but apparently not having carefully examined, he had only noticed the letter b, which is on the right on the reverse: there is opposite, on the left, the letters n t; lefwhich joined to b, form Tyear 45 a.

SAU RO MAT E TH.

This medal has since been acquired that Cary published his work on kings of Thrace & Bofphorus. He did not report any none of Tanhée4p5, who found this one.

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=^=^= There are others in this collection, CHS plan that he didn't know about either; & particular- obviously two of Sauromate III and one of the year 471, & the other from the year jo (5: one of Thothorses of the year j^a, & one of Rhefcu- poris V, of the year 61^,

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AFRICA,

KINGS OF EGYPT E.

PTO LÉMÉ E L Soter.

CJn has no knowledge that he was

published from gold medallions of Ptolemy Soter: Plate it is only in relation to their rarity that we reports here the three who see themselves there.

The five leaking silver medallions^ are only reported in relation to eras they contain. The letters A,AA,Ar,AE, & A i; which are fur the reverse to the left" & which mark dates:, which one cannot look at that like years of reign > make known that Vaillant was not right to say that all: the medals of Ptolemy I, with the title of Soter, had been struck in the first years of his reign > before he would have taken the title of king.

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He also has to point out that he did not report any Plate none of this prince with eras; what

gives them a new degree of merit,

BERENICE L

The head that you see on the two me- dailles reported here, resembles that which eft next to the head of Ptolemy Soter fon husband, fur the medallions which have the legend esoN. AAEAfAN. These two medals who did not have not been published, totally different from those that you know of Bérénice, wife of Ptolemy

The fertile one, which is of bronze > of manufacture^ than Cyrenaica. The monogram A\ what it contains, it can be known, as it has has already been observed, that it is Magas, son of Bere- nice of a first bed, which made him hit during the time he governed this province, then dependent on Egypt, mad Ptolemy Philadelphe his uterine brother.

Valiant, who knows no medal of this first Bérénice, says, that in this However, there were no strikes for queens; S^ however he brings back one from Arûnoé which is fruitful

woman

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wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus, who, according to him, ■

had been struck when Bérénice was Pï-anche still alive.

PTOLEMY II Philadelphus.

The four medals reported here > make factory of Cyrenaica, like the pre- cedent of Bérénice, & contain the same the monogram of Magas, which fans doubt had it struck before ù. revolt. Of the number of these four medals > eft the one that the antique dealers attributed to Ptolemy Ceraunus > king of Macedonia, as we have already noticed.

A R S I N O É.

There are two medals in this collection. gold coins from Arfinoé, similar, which were later behind the head, one the letter e, and the other the letter k. Vaillant published one similar to the latter, from judged that the letter k was the initial of the name of the town of Canopus, where he had been struck; but there is much more appearance than these letters mark the years of the reign of Ptole- mée Philadelphe; & it's a year's worth

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==^= ninth of his reign, marked by the letter e of Plate first medallion, which he married Arfinoé £à

îbeur, after having relegated to Coptos fa premiere woman, daughter of Ly iimaque, whose name was aufli Ariinoe.

PTOLEMY III Evergetes.

There is also a misconception in this gold dagger of Ptolemy Evergetes, which has for type, on the reverse, a chariot pulled by two elephants, led by a standing man, who holds the right hand a branch in the shape of lightning. Liébe published a similar one which he attributed fog to Ptolemy I Soter y & he sought vai- the relationship that could have with this prince, the chariot pulled by elephants. But the head of this medal does not belong to a man aged like Tetoit Ptolemy I. She looks like to those of the medals known to belong to Ptolemy 1 1 1; & we lovingly design for- what we represented elephants at the end: Fez Mé- dailles: he had continued with great hay, & even increased the establishments started by Ptolemy Philadelphus, my father, to make the hunt for these animals on the coasts of Ethiopia

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& Arabia; & he had made a great name from it - ===== bre, of which he lived in the war he carried Plate in Afie. ^"

PTOLEMY IV^ Philopator.

W O N N*A SEE known until preferably a medal of PtolemyV, bearing in the le- gives the title of Philopator, This medal, which is of bronze, and which Vaillant published, represents on one side the head of Jupiter, & the other side the ordinary type of the eagle, pofé fur a thunderbolt.

The one reported here is silver, with the same type, with a very beautiful confervation, & whole, except that the corner has worn a little to ^ux on the left side, so that the word •lAonATOPos, it only appears the latest fixes letters, which cannot be part of other another title. On the other side, it's a head very young girded with the diadem. The monogram who sees on the reverse, fur a malTue, makes know that it was struck at Tyre, in the time of the accession of this prince to the throne: he was only 14 years old then.

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Plate PTOLEMY VI Philometor.

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All that appears is the bronze medal reported here, was known to antique dealers > who only published a silver one from Ptole- mee V I, with the title of Philometor^ This one refTemble by the factory with the medals of Ptolemy Evergetes, & of Ptolemy Philopator, published by Vaillant, although it does not have on the reverse what a simple legend, b as iaeûs nTOAEMAroT, On. believes it is well founded to attribute it to Ptolemy Philometor, except for the date l. a a. 34, which eft well marked: it was the last year of the reign of this prince. There is nothing more, rare, among the medals of the kings of Egypt > than those of bronze which contain eras.

PTOLEMY, VII, fumammed Physcon.

No medals are reported > because they are the least rare. They do recognizable among all those of the kings of E- Egypt, in that they all have in the y field. on the reverse, the lotus flower, and this flower does not

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PTOLEMY Vlllyfurnamed Lathyrus,

Medals which have the type of side two eagles, with the legend basiaeos nTOAEMAioT, & on the other side the head of Ju- Peter Ammon, have been attributed, by some antique dealers, to different kings of Egypt, & mifes by the greatest number among the incer- tains. It appears that they belong to Pto- Lemy VIII, or to Ptolemy I X his brother, by what will be observed in the following article, in subject of a very similar Cleopatra medal their mother, who reigned fucceflively with one &, with the other until death.

CLEOPATRA, mother of Ptolemy FIJI,

& of Ptolemy IX»^

The first medal reported here, eft the one mentioned in the pre-Plate article give way. It is singular & remarkable, in "'• what the legend basiaisshs RAEonATPAs, eft around the head of Jupiter Amimon, and that she

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has the type, on the reverse, two eagles with the

Plate legend basiaeûs nxoAEMAioT. What defies ^^' quite clearly that this queen reigned with dominant way with one of his sons, it is that His name is the first side of the coin. The two eagles on the reverse depict the same ment that the kingdom was governed by two fdrinkers at the same time; & , confequem- ment, there is every reason to judge that it is Ptolemy VIII, or to Ptolemy IX, which ap- belong to the medals which have the same for type two eagles, with the simple legend

BASIABOS nTOAEMAIOT.

The fertile medal which has the legend, like the first, basiaisshs RAsonATPAs, around a woman's head, covered with a elephant skin; & on the reverse, baziaeos iitoaemaiot ^ with the type of an eagle, is similarly known be like Cleopatra, by joining one of her sons;, bellowing for form, had claimed the first first rank & absolute authority. There is no to doubt that this is the head which represents cracked in this medal: the features of the old age make it loose and delicate, and make people judge that it was a beautiful woman. There is in this coUedtion another very similar medal^ except

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that there is no legend around the head; ' of the reflection these make the same traits of liveliness, & Planch it is also in the same way that the head is covered with elephant skin. It is not ainft of the medal fans legend y that Vail- lant reported there after the one around BAsiAissHs KAEonATPAs^ & which he judged to be to go to Cleopatra, because she is the same covered in elephant skin but we sees by the design that he gave of one and of the other is that they do not resemble each other; the traits of liveliness being very different as well as the ma- nest whose elephant skin is adjusted according to the head & fur neck. We find quite common- ment of medals comparable to the fruitful re- worn by Vaillant, whose heads are visible those of a man, and not of a women ; & it is believed that they belong to Ptolemy IX, as he will mark below.

PTOLEMY IX. ALEXANDRE L

Vaillant attributed to Ptolemy IX, a few silver medals which only have the legend. BAsiAsas htoasmaiot, including two women blables do in this colleâiop. He judged by

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! the look of the head, and by the features of the face, that they

Board should belong to him > as a few

authors reported that he had a broad face & full;

If this one did not belong to him, he would have to refer it to Alexander the Great, or to one of the two Alexanders, kings of Syria; faith to Alexan- dre son of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, or finally, to Ptolemy will show that it cannot be referred to judiciously to none of them.

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It could be attributed to Alexander the Great. to the type of the Viâoire, which found Planche the same fury gold medals; but they have V^* all on the other side a crippled head; & this head, no more than that of all the other metals daggers recognized to be from Alexander the Grand does not resemble the one which is represented cracked on the medal in question. Besides, we do not find any real one of him, which has the elephant skin fairy head; & we don't know nor do we know that they were struck for him in Egypt, where it certainly was, as the factory demonstrates.

If anything could make it attributed to one of the Alexanders, kings of Syria, it is the anchor which I see the reverse, and which was the mark cÛf- tindlive adopted, as we do, by the fuc- ceffers of Seleucus I, founder of the monarchy shit; but we find anchors for several medals of Alexander the Great, & fur an infi- nity of others who have no relation to kings from Syria. Besides the heads of Alexandre Bala Se d'Alexandre Zebina do different, & û ca- raâerifees, that it is very easy to recognize them.

The medals of Alexander, son of Pyrrhus, 4 have their heads clad with the remains of a

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=; elephant, have also different facial features: Boards made from the same manufacturer as those of Pyr- rhus fon father, & have for type, like most proud Pyrrhus medals, armed Minerva, throwing a javelin; guy who doesn't see it as he goes one of those of Egypt. Without this, there would be instead of awarding Ptolemy IX the medals referred to Alexander, son of Pyrrhus, rather than this one, the one in question.

According to Vaillant, it belonged to Ptole- mee X, if it were true, as he claims, that of all the kings of Egypt there had not been that he who had carried and had put fur fez we coin the fiery name of Alexander, which was only fbn furnom, as it was the one of Ptolemy IX, his father; but why this one Couldn't he have worn it the same way, fur fes medals, since he was called the same Alexander, and that is how they are called both, by the ancient authors 1 It was fans doubt out of vanity that he took this name, wanting to compare himself to Alexander the Great; & in consequence he had had something made what coins are similar to those of Alexander the Great, with the name feul, fans the title of king. We can also judge that it was for

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pleasing your mother > by rhyming in your coëfFure > - '

which he had to represent with an elephant skin Plate fur the head. When Ptolemy Cleopatra was no longer alive. He imitated his father, aloud by taking the fèul name of Alexandre fur Your coins ^ where he had it engraved with a lion skin on the head, as it is done Alexander the Great furnished most of the world. It is represented there with a young head, quite fact different from that of Ptolemy IX, who “full and ample roof, as the beech should have of an extremely large and powerful body, which he Couldn't walk fans be damned.

Such is the head which is represented in use large number of medals, covered with decorations Apulia of an elephant, fans legend around: these medals have on the reverse that of b as i a e a s nxoACMAioT, with the ordinary type of the eagle. This is what makes us believe that they belong belong to Ptolemy IX, and not to Cleopatra my mother, as we have already observed.

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CLEOPATRA 9 last Queen i Egypt.

All Cleopatra's medals, last^ Egyptian youth, who appear in this collection, were

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: published, with the exception of that which is here def^ Closed board; it represents on one side the head, with the

legend baciaicchc KAconATPAc; & on the other side, that of Marc-Antoine, with the legend eeAc.i... ctotc katot kai "c. There is all appa- ence that after the word ecAc, there was nçotcpac. On the corner that went wrong in that place, we do not do what the word katot represents, which must be a number to add to that of aoo, marked by the letter "c, nor from what era can proceed this uncertain date. If she pro- cedes from the era of the Lagides, it must be of a apnea between 287 & apa.

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J.L There are some medals in this collection of gold, which make the smallest module & a excellent factory. It is only with the course with the magnifying glass that we can clearly distinguish the letters aam,kta,fo. Other than that they contain nent. These letters make fans doubt the initials

names aamonaktos, ktaios. Getting drowned,

that you see as other gold medals stored away

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among those of cities. As we find auflî ■

the letters BAfur a few, and that we plank them

usually taken for the initials of the name ^ '•

of Battus, founder of the kingdom of Cyrene;

some Antiquaries thought that other kings

could have borne the other names above,

the story doesn't get mentioned to many

near all those who reigned in that country.

There is, however, more to the appearance than this.

names of magistrates.

M A G A S.

The medal which is brought here from Magas, uterine fire of Ptolemy Philadeiphe king of Egypt, considered unique. The head around which efl the basiaeas legend uATKy represents, according to appearances > that of my wife Apame, who was daughter of Antiochus Sotery king of Syria. She appears there in the same way way that the heads of Bérénice & of Arfînoé, on the reverse of Ptolemy's medals Soter & Ptolemy Philadeiphe

It is known that Magas reigned for a long time. time in Cyrenaica; & that after having governed as dependent > & under authority

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5 of the king of Egypt, he himself took the title of king.

Plate ^ foutint fled a long war for fe

maintain independence. Cefl before fà revolt fans doubt, that he had the medal smashed of Berenice my mother, & those of Ptolemy Philadelphus, previously reported, as to which we see the monogram A\, in the front pages, M* & IVr, in the others; which monogram- me, varied in three ways, also contains the initials of your name.

M E D A I L L E uncertain*

The medal which has the type on the reverse Siîphium with the legend basiaeûs hto, to have been attributed to Ptolemy Apion, last king of Cyrenaica, who by fon teftament bequeathed this kingdom to the Romans; but she can also belong to one of the kings of E< Egypt, from the time they were in possession of it, so much so that it appears that she was struck a currency from Cyrenaica, and that the great relief of Jîlphium was caufe that the head of iemme was only able to print on the other side in a superficial way: even if we don't notice it only a few traits that are difficult to disUnderstand.

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AND MAURITANIA.

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J U B A, jUs.

JL/ES MEDALS of Juba son, which make = ' -

in this collection, we have only defined Pi-anche that which is reported here, with the legend, Lvcv AVGvsTi; because which seemed the finest- regular, & that we have no knowledge that it has been published.

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CLEOPATRA, wife of Juba son.

We observe that Cleopatra has the head^ decorated in a different way in almost all the medals where she is represented. We feel happy to have two of them eat dinner: one on the back of Juba's head & the other where she is represented as fire, fans caption » with a reverse containing three ears of corn. She is there decorated, up to the chest, in a completely quite extraordinary: it was apparently

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: ' clothing conforming to the fashion of the time &

Plate of the place where she lived. Which makes him attribute

this fingiiliere medal is not only where she was found nearby of the city of Algiers, but still the lottery that it a fur la tête, symbol relating to the country where it was born, and the believer who was ahead, other fymbol relating to fon fumom; because she was named 2EAHNH. We say she was a girl of Marc-Antoine, & of Cleopatra, last queen of Egypt.

PTOLEMY, son of Juba.

We have not had the medal defined Ptolemy, who is reported here, only by port to the type of the reverse which is not seen gradually one of those of this prince, published until prefect. On the other hand, we can see the explanations tions that several antiquarians have given to e^ letters that are the other side of this coin & fur the setbacks of those of Juba.

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UPPER ASIA.

KINGS OF SYRIA

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THE BEST farm that Vaillant has

given to the medals of kings, & the one he ^ ^^^ worked the most, eft the story he published of the kings of Syria, relating to the medals of these kings who were known to him. We have him the obligation to have arranged them in order, & to have formed a leak suitable for con- We know to which king each medal belonged. If he had seen the large number who were de- covered since then, my work would have been more perfect. Father Frœlich, hardworking antiquary & ibefore, undertook to amplify it, & to reform, by means of the study he made of all the former hiflorians, their acquaintances that the newly minted medals provided him with

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' discoveries, both those that have been published Plate by Haym, Beger Se other than those which

They find them collected in various cabinets from Germany, from England $c elsewhere. He is ed taken the trouble to generally describe all those who have reached this knowledge, & to compose in accordance with these medals the , & what the ancients have said in writing concerning the kings of Syria, explanatory annals cts, clear & abbreviated of all events main elements, arrived from Alexander the Great until the time when the kingdom of Syria paid for the domination of the Romans. But although this compilation is generally ral infinitely better > Se more complete than that of Vaillant, it is not to the point of perfection where the author would have seen it, if he had did the same research in France that he did in Germany & England. The cabin^ of joi, fur-all, would have provided him with a lot of rare medals that he does not know; & he would have found several of those of this colledion, which would have prevented it from forming conjedures ^ aflèrtions & fyflême^ who cannot fuck themselves, as we will see by the following observations.

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S ELEUCUS I, Nicator. Board

VII.

The medals awarded to Seleucus I, not containing any period, nor other marks some who must make them awarded to him iuremertt; it is only by conjecture that we felt that they belonged to him rather than to other kings of the same name.

We observe that the first medal here rap« carried, was probably also arrested in Abydé in the Troad> as the letters designate AB^ initials of the name of this city, which make leave Jupiter frozen. These letters do not form* think that a single conjeâure > if she was born not fortified by the poifFon that we see in the field > on the right: but we have several medals of Abyde, whose type is a poiflbn aveo a ship's anchor > two lines that move what is also a maritime city > such as Abyde roof,

The head of this medal > which is covered of a lion's skin > just as all the Jargoit medals of Alexander the Great \ provides f occafion cf examine fi these heads make those of the kings whose medals bear the

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. name, or they represent young Hercules.

Board like Father Frœlich & several others?

antique dealers claim it. Without wanting to enter take to decide this question, we observe- vera that we cannot always clearly recognize who the medals belong to, by the heads that they represent. A poorly skilled engraver will have failed to make them refTemblant in the corners he will have made of it; on the other hand, the facial features will have changed, due to age, sometimes by another accident; this is what we notice that in the medals of kings and emperors which reigned for a long time, whose heads were the dales from the beginning of their reign, in no way resemble those of the medals posterior. As for those of Alexander the Large, which are infinitely numerous in silver people, and whose heads almost resemble all, reason why it is claimed that they do not represent him, but rather Hercules young, it may well be that this prince, who does not could only be painted by Apelles, having trained the project to regulate the coin factory in a uniform manner, nevertheless it is preferred create a model, whose head then reflects it

bloit > j& that he ordered to comply with it

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fans don't change anything, in all the places where Ton made coins. ^^^^^"*

Seleucus finding their course generally established, & wishing however to have it struck in his name, it is quite simple that he made a- edge to make similar ones to those of Alexan- dre, and perhaps he also wanted to show there that he was your legitimate successor. These do the events and circumstances which will have given the opportunity to make them escape in different annuities, to change everything with your head covered of Hon's skin which was represented there, & which particularly cared for then the medals of Alexander. We have previously reported one by Demetrius Poliorcetes, covered similarly of lion skin: it was unknown to the father Froelich. This strong head ornament is found heard some medals of Antiochus I; but the other kings of Syria who fled did not employed until Alexandre Bala, who fans doubt wanted to imitate Alexander the Great in this, whose he bore the name. We will do others in flight observations regarding the coefïure of. lion skin, as a head ornament; & fur the pofea aurdeifus wing of the ear of Seleucus ^ in several of his other medals.

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=s The second reported here, which on the one hand Pt ANCHE represents an ox's head in profile, & from the other side

tf e side the head of Apollo in front, eft fînguliere, It appears by its type and its manufacture to have been minted in Pergamon. This was fans doubt after the revolt of Fhiktaire against Lytimachus, in which Seleucus took him until there inort.

The & <^two other medals» which have only for the end my, vb., has not been published. We are happy to give these, like can be added to the general collection of Father Proelich: the same will be said in the Elite, fans I mention all those, in large number, which differ only in monogrami, or other less important signs^ of keys that he brought back.

ANTIOCHUS /, Soter.

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The two soldiers of Antiochus I, than the F; f rodich posted with the caption itNjïoxor jiATwo”, could ièrvir to make re*- know the Celts which belong to this prince 9 û the heads of these two medals were well representative; but there is little resemblance

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between one and the other; & Father Frtœlich attributes '

himself to Antiochus I other medals, Pi^ anche whose heads have even less with these two there; strong that there is nothing certain for most of those attributed to him; â: we only judge by reports; real ones femblances that they rather belong to him than to other kings of Syria bearing the same name.

The gold one reported here was unknown to Father Frœlich: the type of the revo^ is fii^ulier by }the way in which armed Minerva is represented there. We do not know of any other medal where it was depicted in this way, he won gold medals of Lyfimachus, who fibnt about the same time, do those which come closest to it by the type, as well as the manufacturer.

There are two medals in this collection silver, whose heads bear an olfbaa wing aurdeCus of the ear. £lks refSemèJent filiez by his features of the virgin with the gold medal pjoéoé'- tooth. Va;Hlant who published one by^He in money, attributed it to AatiDichQs I, because he there are medals from Sdenous I^ ûm psere^ whoi represent it in the same way as: imc xais wing of d^oifeaù. FrœKch for his part, the reference to Antio- chus II, & claims that this inie ibmc does not

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heads of Seleucus, nor those of Antiochus I & II, ^^MTB^"^ which are thus represented with wings "but

the head of Vidtoire, or of Mercury, or that by Antiochus Hieràx. The reasons he gives are too weak to be adopted. There is indeed nothing that should prevent to believe that Seleucus had himself represented with a wing to the head, as long as it is done represent with the remains of a lion, & with an ox's horn, similarly placed on the outside of the ear, as Father Frœlich marks it himself.

All the monuments that remain with us antiquity, such as medals, marbles, bronzes, bas-reliefs, columns, etc., make it known that the horns of ox, ram, goat & goat, eagle heads & wings & others birds; the remains of lion, elephant, wolf 8c other animals, were ornaments heads, only kings and even queens, afFe- what to wear. Ancient authors, & modern antiquarians claim that they thus fervent to mark, their origin, both their dignity, their strength and their power: we can see everything that Spanheim has collected

^ çç fujet. But fi the kings of Macedonia fe

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are represented with the head covered with =-———= lion skin, to mark that they were defending Board of Hercules, we cannot say the same thing ^^^* other kings who have them engraved with the same head ornament. We cannot no longer allege similar motives for those whose the heads are represented with an elephant skin phant, & with the wings of birds, or cor- born from different animals. There is much more appearance that everyone wanted simply distinguish yourself from other men, to be revered more by using these strong head ornaments, in imitation of the Gods, which were figured in the same way.

On reflection, it is not always easy to recognize Ours is the medals loaded with female heads. bbles represent the kings they carry the name; but at least he is confident that the two from this collection, which have a wing outside of the ear, resembling by the facial features to the gold medal brought back. It is also true that to say that we recognize perfectly. good Alexandre Bala Se Alexandre Zébina in those of their medals, whose heads make covered with lion skin.

We recognize aulïi in the silver medals

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==== of this collection attributed to Antiochus I, Planchb that the difference there is in girded heads

of the diadem, only comes from that of age. The others of bronze, which are reported here, have not yet been published, The last one, which has on the left side the letters m a, beyond the word BAsiAEas, could well belong to An* tiochus 1 1, & having been f*apped by the Mile- well, who gave him the title of geox, after that he had delivered them from the tyrant Timarchus who oppressed,

ANTIOCHUS 11, Deus.

? The first two medals of this Plank board, which represents Hercules aflîs as a

rock covered with the remains of a lion, ap- puyé with the right hand fur fa maifue, do not reported here only in relation to their rarity & to the Angularity of the type. Father Froèlich has published an almost similar one, which he looked at must as unique. He judged by the type, that she had been struck at Miletus, and that she represents the real head of Antiochus 1 1; strong that he should not be awarded any medals other than those that resemble this one. That being said >

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some of those of silver contained in ■

this collection, could well belong to other Board

kings of the same name, the heads do not reiTemblant VIII,

do not try so that we can be assured that they

all belong to the same king.

The two bronze medals cannot be found point in the compilation of Father Frœlich; but the fertile one is reflected by the type of the palm tree, the one that was published by Haym, with the caption ANTioxor MEFAAOT, & which he referred by con- fequent to Antiochus III. This cannot be attributed, because it rather reflects Antiochus II than to Antiochus III, who efl: recognizable by the shape of your nose in all your medals are as marked below* Supposed that the caption of the one that was published by Haym was well read, it is the leaf of An- tiochus III, which contains the title of m e r a r; but it appears by the explanation he gave of it ^ that it is not well preserved, and he continues see, that instead of the word mefaaot, which is not there in full, there would have been baziaeos, as in that which is reported here.

SELEUCUS II and Callinicus. The FIRST MEDAL seen here

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' of Seleucus 1 1, is similar to that which Plate was published by Vaillant, except that there is no

of a lion's head at the feet of Apollo, like in the fienne. Although it also differs by the monograms: it is not reported, as it goes, just to see how much the head looks like to that of Antiochus Hkrax fon brother, of whom he will report a medal below.

Father Frœlich published a similar one at the fertile, which was of great bronze, and which he believed to be unique; but she was not well conferred vée, as it appears by the deffein & by the defcription that he gave: it is missing a part of the legend, & the letters (A) » which find this one.

There is every appearance that the medal of Seleucus, similar to the other of bronze which eft reported here, which was published by Vail- lant', was not well conferred either, then that he rendered, in the form of a parallelogram, the letters (ia) which, in the field, make the horse crazy

These letters (he), which fè find only £ir the medals of Seleucus II, femble^ can be interpreted as, the initial of the name of the city where the medal was been hacked; & i, a, like the initials of

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EPA ATT0N0M02. Mals Damas & Dora, who do *

the late towns of Syria, whose name com- Plate started with an a, were further pofleded by VI II. the kings of Egypt, under the reign of Seleucus II.

ANTIOCHUS Hieraoç.

Until now it has not been published a medal from Antiochus Hierax, who saw however took the title of king, & reigned for some time in part of the kingdom of Syria, supported in the revolt against Seleucus my brother, by Ptolemy Evergaes, king of Egypt. We believe we can attribute to him the misfortune stone which is reported here, because the head that it represents, resembles perfectly to that of Seleucus II, & that it differs from all those that we see in other people's medals kings named Antiochus.

SELEUCUS III, Ceraunus.

Vaillant released a silver medal of Seleucus III, roughly similar to that which is reported here, and which seems to be able to be attributed all the more furiously> as the

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= head looks exactly like a crippled man. Plate History tells us that he was indeed of a

bad reputation. We could believe by the mo-, nogram y, which is for this medal, like fur the first of Seleucus II, that they would make both of the same Prince; but besides the difference in the type, there is also some in the heads that do not resemble each other; &ce mono- gramme fe finds fur medals of others kings, particularly for several of Antio- chus III.

ANTIOC HUS III and Magmis,

We are starting to find new ideas daggers of Antiochus III, dates from years. • from the beginning of the reign of Seleucus I: this is what we call the era of Greeks, or Seleucids. The medals that thus contain eras, fervent non- only to make known at what time bear witness to the kings whose name they bear, & how long they reigned; but aufit to be recognized, by the resemblance of the heads, what do those who own the medals do which do not contain epochs. Antio-

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chus m eft reconnoifTable, particularly = in that it has a long nose and ends in a point: Board it is from this ^son that it was first figured ^^^^' first medal reported here, where we see the pie numeral letters. Father Frœlich was able to blie a roughly similar with the year pi b, & Valiant another with the year piz.

It is also by the reflection of the head of these medals, with the heads of the twelve medals of silver, which are attributed to Antiochus III, in this collection, that these appear must belong to it, being represented there in ies different ages, from the beginning until the end of his reign, which was 3 ^ years. It must be noted, however, that some could be from Antiochus I, if we must go by relate to that which was published by the father Frœlich, with the legend ANTfoxoT 20THPOZ9 the head of this medal, as he gave you, relating to most of those of the medals attributed to Antiochus III.

There is something else in this coUeâion, crazy Antio- chus III & mad the fleeing kings, several serrated medals all around in the shape of fcie. Haym & Father Frcelich report this ej^ece mad Seleucus 1, to^ mad the kings

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Board which must have them attributed to them with certainty.

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Vaillant thought that this serration was a ornament; others judge with more truth- I believe that the factory was invented & practiced, time to make it more difficult to counterfeiters, to prevent trim- & file around the medals, like Where can I find strong ones in affez? large number. That being said, it should not be for all the first kings who this factory was introduced; & Your esteem by the form & the matter of these strong medals, that it efl howling madmen Antiochus III & Seleucus IV, that we started making some.

Haym reported mad Antiochus I, a medal of this species, having the type one elephant head similar to those which make in this collection of Antiochus I II; & he judged that the woman's head which is on the other. side, represents slot Stratonice, wife of Antiochus I. But (î it's the head of a queen, it could just as well be that of Laodice, or Euboea, women of Antiochus III.

The last medal reported here is not

in the compilation of Father Frœlich, We see

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the monogram badge, roughly figured!

like the medals of Seleucus II & Plate of Seleucus III. '^"^•

SELEUCUS IV and Philopator,

The look of the head, and the lively features in the medals of Seleucus IV, which contain ^ ^| ^ eras, make it very recognizable in those which do not contain any. It’s fiir this basis that he is awarded the two medals of silver reported here; the head they represent slit, perfectly reflecting that of the third medal, which has the type half- ship, with the date pai: the same head fè sees fur other medals in this collection which have the same type without date. Father Frœlich, nor any other antique dealer, has not known any silver medals gent of Seleucus I V. Which further confirms that CCS dcu3t these belong to him, it is the mo- n unusual gram A which is for the fe- conde, & who finds himself equally fur two others in bronze from this same collection.

Vaillant & Haym have published a medal similar to the third one above Fus, with Tannée PA5-; ^ Liebe another, with the paz year,

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; There is also in this collection a medal Plate similar to that which was published by Haym, ^' having for type the figure of Diana in the dress of chaiTe, with a deer in front of her, which he attributes to Seleucus I. He believed that the head which efls from the other side, could have been that of his first wife, called Apamé; this head having seemed to him decorated in a grofïïère & extraordinary way; but the medal was poorly conferred, so that it agrees. In that of the glued pre-slit ôion, the head is dressed in an elegant manner, & it may be that of Laodice^ wife of Seleucus IV.

ANTIOCHUS IV and Deus, Epiphanes, Nicephorus,

If the eras marked by the medals of Antiochus III & Seleucus IV, fervently to make known those who are fans of eras & who

belong to them; the titles that Antiochus IV,

& all the fleeing kings took fury most of their medals, are no less fervent at fair recognize those which should be attributed to them steam. It is not that the same king has always took fur his medals all the titles he had arrogated, or that had been given to him in the

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during his reign. There is such a king, whose medals only contain his name, Pi-anchb fans no title; others even who do not wear by name, & are only recognizable by the heads; others given the title of late king ment efl attached to the name; others who do not hold only some of the other titles, & finally others which contain them all. The medals of Antiochus IV provide '

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examples of this variety, what events! & the circumstances must have produced. History! tells us clearly that he had assumed the titles. of God Se â^Fpiphane; but she doesn't mention of that of Nicephorus, which we find fur some of your medals, as we will show it in the escape. The same title of Nicéphore will also see a medal by Alexandre BaLa, unknown to antiquarians res. This is a doubt for some reason won, given to them, or taken this pafFager title, which will no longer have been used for the medals struck on the run; & this is also why we find one (i small number of this strong.

There are three in this collection similar to the first of Antiochus IV, here reported, having

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f ' i=?pOU.r legend BASIAEQg ANTIOXOT ©EOT Eni*ANOTS,

Plate Father Frœlich published a similar one.

There are also two in the same column medals similar to the fertile one brought back with

the legend BASlAEnS ANTIOXOT ©EOT En»ANOT2 NIKH^OPOTI

the only difference there is between the two, eft that the word nikh#opot is in one of the exergues, & in the other, on the right side, after the word Eni*ANOT2. These two medals reflect entirely to the first three, which do not con- only hold the title of Epiphane, fans that of Nicephorus. Both have non-fire the same type; but the heads they represent make a perfect reffemblance, that one would say that they would be fortified with the same corner. It is therefore clear that these two medals containing the title of Nicephore, belong to Antiochus I V; which refutes the question of favoir, to which of Antiochus we must refer the one which contains the same title, as Vaillant first attributed to Antiochus V I, in my history of the kings of Syria; what happened in- flight recounted in his history of the kings of Egypt, where he transported it to Antiochus XII. Fr. Froelich saw in this the sentiment of Vaillant; what he would not have done if he had seen the medals

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in question, which make a factory totally,. different from those of the last kings of Syria. Board As furplus, since Vaillant & Haym, which ^ ^* considered the medal of the ca- binet du Grand Duc, which Vaillant published on first ^ other similar ones were discovered bles. There are some in the king's cabinet; & the P« Froelich brought one from Mr. Fawkner. But that this one has the legend difpofé other- ment than that which was published by Vaillant, it had no reason to conclude that he was wrong, by giving it defined as he did; since in the two which are reported here, the legend is different in both ways.

The third & fourth of Antiochus, on plate IX, having both for legend BAsiAEiis antioxot \ & for type Jupiter standing holding in his right hand a crown, contain amp dates. & that is to say, the years 144 & 145 of the era of Seleucids, who were the seventh and eighth th of the reign of Antiochus IV. The heads that You see how these two medals resemble each other to those of the previous silver medals, except, that with the tiara, they are surrounded of rays, as the heads sometimes do

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PiANCHE the first of the kings of Syria, who was done

represent with a radiated crown,* conf- in the title of god that he had roged. The letters Ar. which precede the dates AMP. & EMP, most likely define that they were struck in the city of Afcalon, who was then under the domination of the kings of Syria.

There is also a date on the ninth medal, with the name of the city of Sidon, where it was hit. The head which is represented there fans legend, is that of Antio chus IV, well recognized crazy the image of Apollo. Numerical letters HMP which are on the reverse, mark the year 148. Father Frœlich does not bring back any medals of Antiochus IV, with dates from years au- beyond 147. However, he reigned until around the end of 14^; but as he had left Syria in 147, to go to war in Perfe, from where he did not return, there is doubt about this reason that we find very few medals of the last years of his reign; &, fans of this one. You could have thought that it would not have been struck for him during his absence.