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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2014
In presenting the following account of the coins found at Nimrud in the excavations of 1957, I should like to thank Prof. M. E. L. Mallowan for his kindness in inviting me to study and record the material. Some of the coins, notably those from the small hoard of tetradrachms (nos. 6190–2 and 6195–7 below) found in the Hellenistic levels of Trench O, south of the Nabu temple, have been illustrated in I.L.N. Nov. 23rd, 1957. Here I illustrate all the coins that seem to deserve it; few of the bronze pieces come into that category, as is apt to be the case with excavation coins.
page 158 note 1 The find places have been inserted in each case after the description of the coin. For the significance of the stratification consult the previous article on The Hellenistic Settlement by David and Joan Oates. See also plans and section, Plates XV, XVI.
page 158 note 2 Thompson, M. and Bellinger, A. R.: Greek Coins in the Yale Collection IV; a board of Alexander drachms (Yale Classical Studies XIV, 1955) p. 3 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 160 note 1 The collection of the late E. T. Newell, the greatest modern authority on Hellenistic coins, is now in the museum of the American Numismatic Society, New York.
page 161 note 1 Cox, D. H.: A Third Century Hoard of Tetradrachms from Gordion (Museum Monographs of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1953) pp. 10–11Google Scholar.
page 161 note 2 Museum Notes VI (American Numismatic Society) pp. 32–4Google Scholar.
page 162 note 1 Numismatic Chronicle 1954, pp. 6–7Google Scholar.
page 162 note 2 Noe, S. P., Bibliography of Greeks Coin Hoards (American Numismatic Society, Notes and Monographs 78) no. 681Google Scholar: further portions of the hoard are in the Newell collection, cf. n. 2 above.
page 162 note 3 Noe, op. cit. no. 682: this hoard was in all probability buried before the end of the third century, to judge by the Seleucid coins it contained, though it also included the Pergamene ‘Eumenes II’ issue.
page 163 note 1 Newell, E. T., The Seleucid Mint of Antioch (American Journal of Numismatics vol. 51, 1917)Google Scholar.
page 163 note 2 Bellinger, A. R., The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report VI; The Coins (Yale 1949)Google Scholar.
page 164 note 1 Dura p. 3–4, nos. 58–63 and p. 111, commentary on no. 60a.
page 164 note 2 Waage, D. B.: Antioch-on-the-Orontes IV part two (Princeton 1952) p. 10, no. 100Google Scholar.
page 164 note 3 Brett, A. B.: Museum Notes I (American Numismatic Society) p. 17 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 165 note 1 McDowell, R. H.: Coins from Seleucia on the Tigris (Michigan 1935) p. 26 nos. 61–63Google Scholar. Cf. Numismatic Chronicle 1951 p. 17 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 165 note 2 Rostovtzeff, M.: Some Remarks on the Monetary and Commercial Policy of the Seleucids and Attalids (in Anatolian Studies presented to Buckler, W. H.Manchester 1939)Google Scholar.
page 166 note 1 Op. cit. cf. p. 162, n. 2 above.
page 166 note 2 Thompson-Bellinger, cf. n. 1 above, op. cit. p. 44.
page 167 note 1 Coins of Seleucia of the Seleucid period are rare at Dura, totalling only some 10 pieces out of a Seleucid total of 1024 coins found. There were it is true rather more of the Parthian-era civic mintages of Seleucia (145 pieces) but even these are not many in view of the vast numbers of coins found at Dura.
page 167 note 2 The coins found at Susa have only been published piecemeal in Mémoires de la Delegation en Perse XX (1928) pp. 37–40, XXV (1934) pp. 62–3Google Scholar. A new and comprehensive study of these important finds is being prepared by M. G. le Rider of the Institut français d'archéologie, Beyrouth. Cf. also the remarks on the mint-area of Seleucia on the Tigris by McDowell, , Seleucia p. 177–181Google Scholar.
page 167 note 19 It is certainly curious that there should be no more than two coins of Antiochus III at Nimrud; at Dura coins of Antiochus III account for nearly half the total of Seleucid coins.
page 168 note 1 Debevoise, , Political History of Parthia p. 23Google Scholar; but cf. also Numísmatic Chronicle, 1951 p. 19Google Scholar.
page 168 note 2 Cf. I.L.N. 11 23rd, 1957, p. 872Google Scholar.
Other abbreviations:—
Newell WSM—Newell, E. T., The Coinage of the Western Seleucid Mints, New York 1941Google Scholar.
Newell ESM—Newell, E. T., The Coinage of the Eastern Seleucid Mints, New York 1938Google Scholar.
