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260 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.This tetradrachm, which represented him as a middleagedman, well illustrates his nickname Grypus, thehook-nosed. Other tetradrachms present the featureconsiderably lessdeveloped, and show the portrait of aconsiderably younger man.The B.M.C. attributes this somewhat large series ofcoins to Antiochus XI, but the omission of lAAAEAOY,which ispublished by Babelon, and isundoubtedlyAntiochus XL The omission of the full title on acopper coin is byseries.no means unusual in the SeleucidVarious monograms have already been published, butthis with the r beneath the throne is new, though otherletters and monograms appear again and again.28. Obv. Diademed head to r. Border of dots.Rev. Cornucopiae filled with fruits; in field 1.,monogram E. BAZIAEOZ ANTIOXOY (r.) ;EnicJ>ANOYZ (1.).M. 0-9. Two chalcoi. Wt. 122 grs.[PL XI. 3.]This coin calls for no remark except that it is aspecimen of the double chalcous, which is well knownin the single variety.