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

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Metal Size Weight
M
M
M
M
1 +
257-7
9-9
262-4
263-5
JE 230-5
M 7i 229-3
M 241-7
ADDENDA.
EUCRATIDES Bactrim.
Helmeted portrait
of Eucratides to r. ; on side of helmet, bull's horn, as on coins
of Seleucus I. R. Dioscuri to r. on prancing horses, and bearing spears and
palm-branches ; above, in curved line, BASIAEQS MErAAoY ; below, EYKPA-
TIAoY ;
under one of the horses, mon. 199.
Same type. li. BASIAEQS EYKPATlAoY in two lines ; between, bonnets of
Dioscuri, with stars and two palm branches ; below, AM or MA in mon.
EUMENES II. Pergami.
Laureate head of Philetserus to r. R. Pallas, seated to I., crowning the name
*IAETAlPoY; under her arm, mon. 160 (EYMENoY2) ; in field to r., bow;
to L, cornucopise.
AEISTONICUS Pergami.
Same type. R. Same legend and type ; under the arm of Pallas, mon, 200 (apI-
2ToNIKoY) ;
the B. M.
in field to r., bow.— This and the one preceding are Electrotypesfrom
Note.—The monogram on this coin being in the same position as that on the similar coin of
Eumenes, is evidently the name of the reigning prince ; and although not so clearly soluble as the
monogram of Eumenes, is sufficiently so to leave little doubt that it is the monogram of Aristonicus.
This prince was a natural son of Eumenes II., and reigned between two and three years after the
death of the successor of Eumenes, Attains III., who dying in 133 B.C. had bequeathed his kingdom
to the Romans. In 131, Aristonicus defeated and made prisoner the Roman consul, Crassus Mucianus,
but was himself defeated and taken in the following year by Perpenna, the successor of
Crassus in the consulate, and was put to death at Rome, after having adorned the triumph of
M. Aquilius, who in 1 20 had completed the conquest of the Pergamenian kingdom,
CAPNASCIRES Bactrim.
Capnascires and Anzaze.
Heads of the king and queen to ?., that of the king covered with a diademate turban ;
beard long and pointed, — decorated garment close to the chin ; in field to r.,
mon. 201 ; below which, Jjl R. Jupiter Nicephorus, seated to L, Victory
presenting to him the crown ; his left hand resting on hasta ; around, in four
lines, BACIAEilC KAnNACKIPO[Y] KAI BACIAICCHC ANZAZHC.
Another similar, but the third side of the legend illegible, and the fourth obliterated.—
These two coins are Electrotypes from the B. M.
Note.—The resemblance of these coins to those of the Greek dynasty of Bactria, which ended with
Heliocles about 127 b.c. (Wilson's Ariania, p. 266), leads to the belief that Capnascires was a Scythian
prince, who became possessed about that time of the western part of Bactria, and who shaped his
barbarous name to a Greek form. Lucian, in the Macrobii (16), mentions a Mnascires, king of the
Parthians, who lived to the age of ninety-six.
It seems not unlikely that his words icai
Mvaffjci'iOiJC
may be a textual error for KoTrraffictpj/g, the Koi moreover having there some appearance of being an
intrusive word. The coins, however, bear little or no resemblance to those of the Arsacidae. The
turban of Capnascires is very unlike the Parthian tiara. The Arsacidte are generally represented
sitting on a throne with a bow in their hands, and they almost invariably styled themselves " Great
King" or " King of Kings."
APODACUS Characenes.
Diademate head of King Apodacus to r. R. BASIAEilS AIIOAAKOY, in two lines ;
between which, Hercules, naked, seated to I. on rock ; in extended right hand,