I have three other coins of Sidon[169], of almost intirely the same
type; only one of them exhibits a date in Greek numerals, and two bear
Phœnician dates. The Greek numerals are EOT, CCCLXXV; and the Phœnician
correspond with the numbers CXX, CXXVII, to both of which are prefixed
the above-mentioned initial letters. We meet with draughts of two
similar medals in[170] Arigoni, adorned with characters, expressing the
numbers CXXVIII, CXXX. All these coins present to our view a turrited
head and a branch of palm, pointing out to us the country to which they
belong, and on the reverse the usual symbol of Sidon. The year handed
down to us by the Greek date EOT, is the 375th of the æra of Seleucus;
and those denoted by the Phœnician numerals answer to the 120th, 127th,
128th, and 130th, of the proper æra of Sidon, as will be hereafter more
fully evinced. Hence we may certainly collect, that these pieces were
struck at Sidon in the years of CHRIST 11, 18, 19, 21, and 64.