Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

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KINGS OF PERGAMUS. 43
KING OF PAPHLAGONIA.
PYL^MENES.
Head of Hercules to r., with crisped hair ; end of club projecting behind neck.
B. BA2IAEQS IlYAAIMENoY EYEPrEToY. Victory to I., crowning the king's
name with a wreath in her extended right hand ; in left hand, a palm branch.
Note.— Nicomedes II. of Bithynia placed one of his sons on the throne of Paphlagonia, and in place
of his real name gave him the Homeric appellation Pylsemenes. This person was so soon ejected by
Mitliridates the Great, that the present coin is rather to be attributed to one of his sons, who was
restored to his father's kingdom by Pompeius after the fall of Mithridates. The reverse resembles
that of the coins of Nicomedes, as well in the attitude and act of the Victory crowning the name, as
in the disposition and style of the legend.
KINGS OF PERGAMUS.
Note.— Tlie eunuch Philetserus of Tium (Ti'etov, Strabo, p. 542) was keeper of the treasure of Lysimachus
in the citadel of Pergamus ; on the death of Lysimachus in B.C. 281, and of Seleucus Ni-
eator in the following year, he became by means of this possession the independent sovereign of Per-
gamus and its territory, which he held to his death in 203 B.C., and left to his nephew Eumenes, thus
founding a dynasty which continued under five successors for 150 Attains III., who bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans.
years, to the death in 131 B.C. of
ATTALUS I.,
Son of Attains (the third and youngest hrother of Pkiletwrm), succeeded Evmenes /.,
son of Eumenes, second hrother of Philetcerus, in b.c. 241.
Head of Philetserus to r., wearing a narrow diadem resembling a cord. R. *IAE-
TAIPOY. Pallas seated to I. on a throne on which A is inscribed ; her extended
right hand on a shield standing on its end before her ; in left hand, a spear in a
sloping position, point downwards ; in field, under the right arm, an ivy leaf ;
behind the legend, a bow.—From the Thomas Collection (2001).
Same portrait to /., crowned with a wreath of bay, round which the diadem is
entwined, li. Same legend, letter, type, and symbols. —From the Thomas Col-
lection (2006).
EUMENES II.,
Eldest son of Attalus I., succeeded his father in b.c. 197.
Same portrait as before to /•., crowned with a wreath of bay. BL. *IAETAIPoY.
Pallas seated to I. ; her extended right hand crowns the name, her left elbow
rests on a shield, which stands on its end behind the throne ; in field to r., bow ;
below the arm, mon. ] 60 (EYMENoYS) ; to left of name, a palm branch.—Elec-
trotype.
Note.—This coin is attributed to a Eumenes upon the ground of the monogram ; and it is given to
the second Eumenes in preference to the first, on account of the much longer duration of his reign,
and the great similarity of style observable in this coin and those of Attalus I., the father and predecessor
of Eumenes II. The sUght variation of type, moreover, is precisely such as an immediate
successor would be likely to make.
M 2