32 On the Greek Coins in the [Jan. 
These two coins were struck at Leucas, a town near the celebrated promontory 
of the same name in Acarnania, whence Sappho precipitated herself into the sea. 
The Hunterian Cabinet contains a multitude of coins of this place, but none with 
these names of Timotheos and Lamulos, or Damulos. 
Syrian Coins. (Fig. 11.) 
Next to the Alexandrine series, in point of time, and of merit, rank 
the coins of the princes of Syria, the descendants of Seleucus Nicator, 
who, upon the partition of Asia among the officers of Alexander, took 
possession of Syria, and subjected to his sway all the provinces up to 
the Indus. Of the Seleucide kings, I lately obtained one silver coin 
from a Babylonian Jew; it is represented in Fig. 11, and is in beauti- 
ful preservation ; the head, in high relief, and of exquisite workman- 
ship, wears the fillet or diadem, which belonged exclusively to royalty, 
and was not even assumed by the Roman emperors, until the reign of 
Diocletian. On the reverse, is a sitting figure of Ceres, with a cornucopia 
in her left hand, and a sceptre (or torch?) in her right, She sits on an 
ornamental chair, the leg of which is formed of a winged Cupid with a 
Dolphin tail. Beneath is a symbol compounded of the letters A and T 
which is supposed to stand for Antioch. The inscription is distinct 
BAZIAAENS AHMHTPIOY SIAAAEA®OY NIKATOPOS, which 
refers to Demetrius II. Nicator, who reigned 145 —— before Christ. 
It is a tetradrachma. 
Fig. 6.—A small salve drachma in the Society’s cabinet. Head, in 
good relief, with simple band. . 
_.B.c, 292. Jupiter seated on a solid altar, holding thunderbolt, or 
| priest sitting on the veiled stool. Down the sides 
BASIAEOS AHMHTPIOY. 
= 
This coin of Demetrius is recognized to be Seleucidan, from the figure of Appollo 
sitting upon a peculiar altar described by Pinkerton as “a hamper inverted. Some 
think this seat is that upon which the priest of Appollo at Daphne, near Antioch, 
used to sit to return oracles. It was placed over an aperture of the floor of the 
temple through which the gale of inspiration was thought to raise.’”’ A Demetrius 
occurs in the Macedonian series—and also among the Bactrian princes. 
Egyptian Series. 
The coins of the Ptolemzan dynasty equal, in beauty and interest, 
the others of Macedonian origin: the silver pieces are very numerous, 
the brass and copper pieces exceed in dimensions all other an- 
tiques : they weigh about two ounces. The Eagle almost always 
appears as the reverse of the Egyptian kings; the date of the reign 
is also marked on the silver in Greek numerals preceded by L or auka Bavros. 
