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Procurators along with the aurei, denarii, and brasses of the con- 

 temporary Roman Emperors. Here also were exhibited the 

 pieces specified in the New Testament Scriptures (e.g., the stater, 

 the penny, the farthing, the mite, etc.). A final brief section was 

 devoted to the " Coins relative to Judaism and Jerusalem subse- 

 quent to New Testament times." Here were noted the coins of 

 the First Revolt in the reign of Nero, the Judaea Capta and 

 Devicta coins of Vespasian and Titus, and others celebrating 

 the conquest of Judaea, the coins of the Second Revolt under 

 Simon Bar Cochab, and the Aelia Capitolina coins of Hadrian 

 and subsequent Emperors. Among the pieces exhibited from 

 the cabinet of the lecturer were a Lydian Electrum (700-568 b.c), 

 Aegina Stater (early 700-550 B.C.), another (later type, B.C. 550- 

 456), Persian Daric (b.c 538-529), Siglos, Alexander the Great 

 (Tetradrachms), Ptolemy I. Soter, Antiochus IV. Epiphanes, 

 Antiochus VII. Sidetes, Jewish Shekel and Half Shekel, John 

 Hyrcanus I., Alexander Jannaeus, Alexandra, A. Plantius 

 (Judaeus Bacchius), Antigonus, Herod the Great, Herod 

 Archelaus, Herod Antipas, Herod Agrippa I., Herod Agrippa II., 

 the Procurators (Ambivius, Rufus, Gratus, Pontius Pilate, and 

 Felix), Augustus' Stater, Tribute Penny, Simon Nasi, Judaea 

 Devicta, Simon Bar Cochab, and Crusader Penny of Amalric II. 

 These, with aurei, denarii, and brasses of Mark Antony, Julius 

 Csesar, Caesar Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, 

 and others, enhanced greatly the interest of the lecture. 



20th January f 1905^ 



Chairman — Mr G. F. Scott-Elliot, President. 



New Members. — Mr John Maxwell, Tarquah, Maxwell- 

 town; Mr Harry Edgar, Ferguslea, Maxwelltown. 



I. — Burial Urns Found in Maxwelltown Park. By Mr 

 James Barbour, F.S.A. (Scot.). 



Mr Barbour read an interesting note describing two Burial 

 Urns found in 1904 in the field acquired by the Burgh of Max- 

 welltown for a public park. The large urn had been broken by 



