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Excerpt from The First Seleucid Coinage of Tyre Induced by this somew state of affairs to institute a through the various catalogues of important public collections and also such private collections as were accessible to him, the writer was soon rewarded by finding a comparatively large and remarkably homo geneous group of tetradrachms and drachm3 whose attribution to Tyre now appears certain. With these the disturb ing and, in fact, impossible gap in the Tyrian silver coinage, which extended from the capture of the city by Antiochus III in 201 b.c. To the inauguration of the well known series of eagle tetradrachms Phoenician weight in I 50 b.c. (the first year of Alexander I's reign), is now completely and apparently satisfactorily filled. As the following catalogue shows, every Seleucid sove fifty years in question is represented b adequate silver coinage, in addition plentiful series of bronze coins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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