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BY
EDWARD TrNEWELL
PUBLISHED BY
NEW YORK
1937
New York
Printed in U.SA.
Copyright 1937, by
'C-r",
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Map - 4
Introduction'
Philip of Macedon
Lysimachus
Seleucus I 20
Ptolemy I 23
Demetrius Poliorcetes 27
Philetaerus - 35
Elymais 84
Characene 84
INTRODUCTION
^"HE peculiarly splendid portrait coinages of the Hellenistic monarchs are deservedly
becoming more and more- popular with collectors of ancient coins. These issues
possess one outstanding characteristic which no autonomous coinage can hope to rival,
and which renders the former of the utmost interest and importance to collectors,
men and women, be they famous or obscure, or even quite unknown to history, live
again before our very eyes. Their several characters, their greatness and their
Nor should the at times artistically inferior reverses of these royal coinages
actual statues, or portray the ruler's favorite deity, or suggest his political aims and
frequently bear dates or regnal years, so that individual coins can be closely dated
and so associated with the events which brought them forth or influenced the choice
of their types.
This little book has not been produced with the advanced student or collector
the ancient kings, to indicate their great historic and artistic interest; to sketch in,
very briefly, the political and historical background of both the coinages and their
royal issuers. Almost without exception, it deals with the portrait coinages only,
and especially with those in silver. Where no silver exist, or are particularly diffi-
cult to obtain, it may mention the gold coins or the more available copper. It
son Alexander the Great. It then dscribes the issues of Alexander's various gen-
ceeds to describe, one by one, the portrait coinages of the many kingdoms which
grew directly out of the fragments of Alexander's mighty empire. It closes with
the royal issues of Syracuse, Numidia and Mauretania which, while never forming
part of the empire, were never the less, historically and artistically, one with the
Lest our volume become too bulky and forbidding, some limit had to be set.
Hence the middle of the first Christian century has been somewhat arbitrarily
chosen as the point at which to bring our little survey to a close. That date would
comprise all the truly Greek issues. Thereafter such royal coinages as still continued
have practically lost all Greek feeling and become purely Roman on the one hand,
or purely oriental on the other. Even within our limits certain minor dynasties or
princes have been omitted either because nothing is known of their history, or be-
the dynasts so omitted are the Bosporan kings and the Polemonian dynasty whose
coins are far more Roman than they are Greek. We have also deemed it advisable,
for various reasons, to pass over the petty rulers of Bithynia, Cilicia, Commagene,
Throughout, the writer has necessarily leaned heavily upon many well known
historical works without its being possible to make due acknowledgment in each
case. He therefore desires to express his grateful thanks for the extended use
Theodore Reinach, "Trois royaumes d'Asie Mineure"; such standard works as "The
and, last but not least, the inestimably valuable introductions to be found in the
EDWARD T. NEWELL.
New York,
MarchI937.
er basis.
Posthumous Tetradrachm
commercial demand.
troops!
12 : I to 10 : I.
Persians.
PLATE I
Key to Illustrations
mint.
Tarsus mint.
10 Tetradrachm.
I I Tetradrachm.
12 Tetradrachm.
13 Tetradrachm.
14 Tetradrachm.
15 Tetradrachm.
Aradus mint.
Damascus mint.
Amphipolis mint.
Cyprus mint.
Pella mint.
16
4 old stater
17
and integrity.
founding of Lysimachia.
away.
Minor.
achus' empire.
"Treasurer"!
IV
Syria.
centuries.
20
India.
reign.
be described.
assassin's hand.
AAEEANAPEION I1TOAEMAIOY i. e.
24
destroyed.
26
VI
open revolt.
of all times.
Figure I
Paris.
dead Alexander.
dominions.
Figure 2
F'gure 3
VII
an oak wreath.
PLATE II
characters to be foun
Pergamum.
33
Andriscus king.
betore he a, , , j. j.l x
oeTeaTea anc , ,. , ,
In I48 B. C. i ., i ,\
U. Caecilius . . , , , r
donia trom t , . L j l- ix
gagement nfL7. , ,. , , ,.
ally deteated, x . , ,i .
Andriscus sou , L . r
cian chiettain
VIII
PHILETAERUS
Pergamum.
Seleucus of Babylonia.
Tetradrachm of Lysimachus.
Tetradrachm of Philetaerus
Tetradrachm of Eumenes I.
him.
Tetradrachm of Attalus I.
IX
PLATE III
Nicomedes.
39
gion.
war."
hero Perseus.
more mature.
42
radates.
43
XI
vived.
nose.
padocia.
PLATE IV
a bonier structure.
XII
48
Lucullus.
XIII
intact.
popular fancy.
246 B. C.
in Egyptian hands.
failure.
suicide.
Minor.
Rome.
PLATE V
more.
tain historians.
guests at a time.
the Nile.
Phoenicia.
of Demetrius.
Euphrates.
continued.
62
PLATE VII
several coinages.
Grypus in 96 B. C.
PLATE VIII
them, about 12 B. C.
XIV
thousand cities.
tria.
who
wele
Mars."
blue;
seen
skin."
of victory.
PLATE IX
trident.
Demetrius.
India.
PLATE X
XV
the West.
cellent.
PLATE XI
jubula.
their own.
74
XVI
gradually recovered.
PLATE XII
are numerous.
beard.
PLATE XIII
eventually married.
Phraataces!
80
heritage.
8i
XVII
PERSIS
one by one.
to battle.
PLATE XIV
symbol.
ELYMAIS
act.
KINGS OF CHARACENE
their metal.
study.
85
XVIII
Thrace.
Seleucid enemy!
and sea.
picture of an abnor-
completely stereotyped
~ <~ In 55 B. C. he
covetousness of Ron-
Octavian emerged
Cleopatra despaire
triumph of Caesa1
Shakespeare or e
full justiceth-
89
describes as a "ci
the country in 58 B. C. In 55 B. C. he
the brow.
91
demed portrait.
it."
92
XIX
a prancing steed.
95
XX
with Rome.
the reverse.
tary power.
PLATE XVI
conjectural.
wards.
99
INDEX
MACEDONIA Page
THRACE
PERGAMUM
BITHYNIA
PONTUS
CAPPADOCIA
B.C. 163-130 44
B.C. 99?-87 45
Page
B.C. 52-42 47
B.C. 42-36 47
ARMENIA
SYRIA
Paqe
BACTRIA
INDIA
B.C 72
Page
PARTHIA
CHARACENE Page
EGYPT
SYRACUSE
NUMIDIA
Hiempsal I, B.C. I 18 96
WESTERN NUMIDIA
MAURETANIA