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"Weight. 425 414-5 426 416-2 [ana City--wâll THE COINAGE OF LYDIA AND PERSIA. 00 m a '•âJ] rr\ Kaa/vi H"^ imi 3 a a rr^ nan 3 a FORTIFIKD PLACE BKLON(iISa TO AN ENKMY OF THE ASSYRIANS (XIMRUD). Obveese. CLASS 2. PncEificiAX StandAEB. Double Shehels or Octadrachms. with five battlemonted towers, before whicli lies an armed galley. At the stem is a standard, surmounted by a disc and crescent. In the exergue are two lions back to back. Above the exergual line the Phoenician letters fiO . . . cable border. Similar. (To right of wall a man standing.) No inscription. Similar. Similar. [Brit. Mus. Plate II. 4.] [Brit. Mus. Plate II. 5.] n ra a an Eeverse. Incuse circle and dotted border, within which the king and his charioteer in quadriga, 1. ; horses galloping ; beneath the horses an ibex or wild goat, incuse, stretched out towards 1., its head turned right. Under the goat a Phoenician inscription (retrograde ?) 0|^y^? Similar, (man behind chariot,) [Brit. Mus. Plate II. 6, reverse only engraved.] [Brit. Mus., much worn.] beneath . . '-'Ô ? Similar, but border -within circle plain. No inscription, and no figure behind chariot. Similar, border dotted. Above chariot in field, 1. the Phoenician letters O^-
36 <strong>NUMISMATA</strong> <strong>ORIENTALIA</strong>. The above described pieces are all in the Britisb Museum. Nos. 2 and 3 are said to have been found in the Tigris in the year 1818. They were originally in the collection of Mr. Rich. I give the Phoenician letters as I see them. Though very indistinct, they are certainly Phoenician characters, and in no case Greek. This leads me to infer that the letters on a similar coin in the Behr Collection (No. 839), which M. F. Lenormant read AYPA> and explained as the beginning of the name Aryandes, retrograde, are probably also Phoenician, and that they have been misread by Lenormant; for Brandis, on the same coin, failed to decipher the letters AYPA. With the reverse type may be compared the signet cylinder of Darius, the son of Hystaspes, now in the British Museimi (engraved above, p. 31), representing the King with his charioteer hunting the lion. The action of the horses and the position of the dead lion beneath them, bear so striking a resemblance to our coins that we shall not be far from the truth if we attribute them to the same period. "Weight. 107-6 97-9 99-4 103-7 I the Obteese. City -wall, with four battlemented towers, before which lies an armed are two galley 1. In the exergue- lions back to back. Border of dots. Another re-struck on a half-shekel of the type of Class 1, No. 2. Of the older type the waves of the sea are visible on the right side of the coin. Similar type ; above the city- wall the letter 9. Similar type ; above the city- wall letters Ô. | Shekels or Didrachms. [Brit. Mus. Plate II. 7.] [Brit. Mus. Plate II. 8.] Reteese. Incuse square, within which, the king, crowned, and clad in eandys, his arms bare, standing 1., and seizing with his left hand a rampant lion by the forelock, and about to stab him with a dagger which he holds in his r. Between them an un- certain letter ? Similar. No letter. Similar. [Brit. Mus. Plate II. 9.] [Brit. Mus. Plate II. 10.] Similar ; between king and lion Ô. "With these didrachms may be compared a Persian cylinder engraved above, page 34, where the King is seen killing an ibex in the same way precisely the coins. as he kills the lion on
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