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of the learned researches of Canon Greenwell. Pergamum
was a noted stronghold under Lysimachus,
king of Thrace, and became in B.C. 2S3 the capital
of a kingdom under Philetaerus of Tium, who had been
treasurer to Lysimachus. All the money of Pergamum
exhibits the head of the founder of the dynasty except
that of Eumenes II. The regal government lasted
from 283 to 133 B.C., when it became the capital of
the Roman province of Asia. The bronze types, both
of Pergamum and Cyzicus, under the Roman rule, are
varied and local, preserving the traditional symbols
found on those of the prior epochs. The British
Museum has lately acquired a fine and rare gold
stater, presumed to have been struck at Pergamum
about B.C. 310 by Herakles, son of Alexander the
Great by Barsine, when that personage was asserting
his claim to the Macedonian throne. It may be some
proof of the confidence and esteem with which Barsine
was regarded by Alexander that the latter committed
to her the government of Pergamum.
Tuoas.—This locality included Abvdos, a very in-
fluential numismatic centre as far back as the sixth
century b.c, and the place of origin of electrum staters,
similar to those of Lampsacus, Miletus, ike, silver
staters of the Persic standard and gold staters of the
Euboic one, probably coined from the local mines
mentioned by Xenophon. The bronze pieces range
from the fifth to the first century B.C. There is a later
silver coinage of autonomous character belomnnu-
the period subsequent to the Roman conquest, but
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