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COINS FROM CKNTRAI, ASIA. 11
considering the question of the Iconography ofAn tioch us I.,
II., and III., in the series of Syrian kings.
No. 2 (PI. ii.) is a tetradrachra of Seleucus I. Types :
obv. head of Zeus ; rev. Pallas fighting in Quadriga
of Elephants ; above AT in monogram, and an anchor.
Wt. 255 grs.
Nos. 3 to 6 and 8 are gold staters presenting us with
portraits of the earlier Antiochi. According to the
arrangement adopted in my Catalogue of the Seleucidae
the head on coins 3 and 4 will be that of Antiochus I.,
the head on 5 and 6 that of Antiochus II., and the head
on 8 that of Antiochus Hierax. But the last of these
attributions must, I fear, be abandoned. A number of
gold staters bearing this portrait have lately made their
way from Bokhara into India ; their fabric is Oriental,
and the mints where they were issued seem to be Bactrian.
As then Antiochus Hierax was acknowledged as king only
in Asia Minor, it is almost certain that these gold staters
cannot be his. It is far more probable that they were
minted by Antiochus III. in the early part of his reign,
during which he made an expedition to the East. Wts.
No. 3, 130-5; No. 4, 130'9 ; No. 5, 131-4 ; No. 6, 131-4;
No. 8, 130-4 grs.
No. .7 is a tetradrachm of Antiochus I. with the type of
a horned horse's head, as to which see Num. Chron. for
1879, p. 11. Wt. 257 grs.
No. 9 is a gold stater, wt. 128*5 grs., of Antiochus II.,
but bearing the portrait and type of Diodotus, King of
Bactria. I had already advanced the theory 5 that Diodo-
tus placed his own portrait on his coin, while meditating
revolt against the King of Syria, Antiochus, before he
* Cat. of Seleucida:, p. 16.