NUMISMATA ORIENTALIA. - Forvm Ancient Coins

THE COINAGE OF l.YDIA AND PERSIA. 45
The coin would therefore have been struck in b.c. 375, another indication of the date of the
Perso-Phcenician coins of Series II., from which its reverse type is imitated.
There are also two coins in the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow, one of which is of
Tarsus, and the other of some Phoenician town, which reproduce the type of the king
contending
with the lion.
"Weight. Obveese.
168 The king contending with a rampant
166 i
Similar.
lion which he is about to stab
with his sword.
Taesus.
Peksian Standard.
Stater.
Eevehse.
The king or a wamor holding
a lance in his r. and
a crux ansata in his 1.; in front, TEPII ; behind
I "I /t ( "iin )
[Mus Hunter. Plate III. 11.]
Uncebtain Phcenician Citt.
Stater.
[Mus. Hunter. Plate III. 12.]
and a flower.
)i^yOC^. Incuse square, within which is a cow
suckling her calf ;
border of dots.
The inscription on this coin remains unexplained, hut the forms of the letters point to
Phoenicia rather than Cilicia.
The following coin of Tarsus may be also here mentioned,
the type of the royal Persian money.
168 Horseman 1. holding flower, in exergue
HA?
Taesus.
Stater.
[Mu«. Hunter. Plate III. 13.]
as it bears on its reverse
Incuse square. The king as archer kneeling r. ;
behind, crux ansata.