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<strong>HISTORICAL</strong> <strong>GREEK</strong> <strong>COINS</strong>Caes(ares), which show that they were circulatingin the time of Augustus. 1THE FOUNDATION OF THE PERGAMENE KINGDOM281 B.C.72. Obv. Head of Seleucus i. of Syria r., wearingplain round fillet without ties.Rev. 4>IAETAIPOY Athena seated 1., her r.resting on her shield before her, herleft arm supporting spear in;the field,ivy leaf and bow.British Museum. Silver Attic Tetradrachm, 16'81 <strong>gr</strong>ammes. Wroth,B. M. C. Mytia, p. 114, No. 28, PI. xxiii. 12. .73. Obv. Head of Philetaerus r., wearing plainRev.round fillet with ties.Similar to No. 72, but mono<strong>gr</strong>am of AOon side of Athena's seat.British Museum. Silver Attic Tetradrachm, 16 '96 <strong>gr</strong>ammes. Wroth,op. cit., p. 115, No. 30, PI. xxiii. 13.In the generally accepted classification of thecoins of the Pergamene dynasty, which is due toImhoof-Blumer, 2 the tetradrachm No. 72 is assignedto Philetaerus himself (281-263), No. 73 to Eumenesi.(263-241). The obverse of No. 72 withoutdoubt represents Seleucus Nicator ;that is provedby a comparison with Syrian coins (cp. No. 70).1Caius and Lucius were adopted as heirs by Augustus in 17 B.C. anddied in 4 and 2 A.D. respectively.3 Die Miinzen der Dynastic von Pergamon (Abhandl. der K. Preuss.A hid., 1884). A recently suggested modification of the arrangement(A. J. B. Wace, J. H. 8., xxv. pp. 99 f.) does not affect the coins withwhich we are dealing.124

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