EUTHYDEMOS I

11

Metal
No.

Obverse

Reverse

M
7

10 ^

11

As on No. 6.

W. 30.
8. -55.

As on No. 6.

(/3) Type : head of Jcing and seated Herakles with chib
on knee; silver, round

Head of king r., diademed
[Elderly portrait, cp.
PL II. 5.]

W. 256.
8. 1-1.

W. 240.
8. 1.

W. 145.
8. 1.

W. 173.
S. 1.

12

W. 92.
S, -95.

Seleukids were struck in such a way that the obverse and reverse designs are placed in
exactly opposite directions. This is also true of the coins of Diodotos and of the early
Bactrian staters. It holds good with most of the coins of this type of Euthydemos, while
on those of type (/3) the two designs generally point the same way. Hence it is fair to
assume that type (a) is earlier than type (0). On all the gold and silver Bactrian coins, the
designs are carefully struck so as to point either in opposite directions, as on the earliest
types, or in the same direction, I understand that as a rule the European Greek coins were
struck haphazard as far as the comparative orientation of the obverse and reverse designs was
concerned.

1 Coins Hos. 12 to 16 appear to be contemporaneous or early imitations.

Herakles with club as before,
seated 1. on rock, oyer which lion's

skin has been thrown; club rest-
ing on Ms r. knee.

Tor. BASIAEni

Tol. EYBYAHMOY

R. M. 3.
G. B. PL I.

M. 3.

G.B.

Monogram indistinct.

As on No. 10.