Ancient Greek Portrait CoinsBritish Museum Publications, 1978 - 16 էջ |
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achievements adopted adorned Alexander Alexander's allies ancient Greeks Antiochus appear Arsinoe Bactria bearded became become Berenice century BC character city-states clearly Cleopatra coinage conquests continuous contrast death defeat deity Demetrius II Demetrius Poliorcetes depict determined developed diademed divine attributes dynasty eastern Egypt empire enlarged Eucratides Euergetes Euthydemus expression face fact famous father figure follow former founded gold octodrachm Greece Greek head Hellenistic kingdoms Heracles horn idealized identifies importance independent India indicates individual interesting issued king later lesser living lost Lysimachus Macedonia Mediterranean MICHIGAN minted Mithradates Parthian Pergamum perhaps period Persian person Philetaerus Philip piece portrait coins portraiture produced Prusias Ptolemy Ptolemy III realistic reign remarkable representation represented reverse Romans Rome royal ruled secured Seleucid Seleucid Empire Seleucus shows silver tetradrachm stater successful successors suggest Syria Thrace tradition undoubtedly unidentified victories vividly wearing Zeus