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QUAESTIONES CYKENAICAE. 159
parison between the seated Zeus Lycaeus and the seated
Zeus, or Alexander type, on tetradrachms of Seleucus I
and Antiochus I, suggesting further that the seated
Zeus type was adopted to replace the standing type of
nOAIAN0EY and KAEA out of compliment to the
Syrian king, whose daughter Magas wedded. With
his dating of the silver Attic didrachms we shall deal
later, but in regard to the gold staters it may be noted
that Six's theory brings the coins signedflOAIANGEY^,
100 and even those with KAEA in monogram, before the
coins of 0EY4>EIAEYS and IASONOS, which seems
stylistically out of the question, while, though there
is a certain superficial resemblance between the staters
of XAIPIO and the Alexander type with the right
leg drawn back, the closest parallels to the attitude of
the Zeus on the coins of GEYEI AEYS and IASONO5
are to be found rather in that of Baal-tars at Tarsus,
or of Zeus Lycaeus on the even earlier coins of the
Arcadian League. 107
The Silver Coinage.
The silver coinage of the second part of this period
is subordinate to the gold issues. Granted the patchwork
nature of our evidence, which depends upon one
or two big finds, it is yet remarkable that, while all
the magistrates whose names occur on silver, except
the last, occur also on the gold, the converse does not
hold good, and that, while down to 390 tetradrachms
are comparatively common, after the introduction of
the gold currency they become very scarce, till under
106 This is the stater of Ptolemaic times, and Phoenician (not
Attic) weight, published by Babelon in Rev. Num., 1885, PI. xv. 7.
107
See above, p. 143.