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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...seems to have been in the 18th (?) year when we find five new obverse and seven new reverse dies for staters and tetradrachms combined. With the stater issue this activity continued into the following year as well. Now it was during the 18th year that the invasion of Antigonos, the surrender of Sidon, and the commencement of the siege of Tyre occurred. As under Alexander so undoubtedly under Antigonos, the base for an army and fleet besieging Tyre would still be Sidon and it is to this fact that we ought to attribute the unusual activity of the Sidonian mint for years S and T. It is also a strange coincidence that with the arrival of Antigonos in Phoenicia the griffin, which since the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. had been discarded in favor of the serpent as the ornament on Athene's helmet, should again make its appearance on the staters. Can we connect this reappearance with the policy and ambitions of Antigonos? As ruler overpractically all of Alexander's Asiatic conquests he was now clearly considering himself the great Macedonian's successor and was aiming at the recovery of the remaining lands once ruled by him. As it was, Antigonos was undoubtedly the acknowledged ruler of the East and this fact might easily have suggested the reappearance of the griffin--a monster of eastern origin and conception. SERIES VII. October 309 to 305 B. C. The peace which Antigonos and Ptolemy had consummated in the Summer of 311 endured for five years, but could last no longer between rulers actuated by such diametrically opposite policies as were the master of Asia and the Satrap of Egypt. In the Spring of 306 Antigonos suddenly declared war. The Spring and Summer were occupied by the battles and sieges on and around the Island of Cyprus, ending with the complete defe...

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