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Reverse: Around border is the same inscription as on the thaler. 

 On central disk, "Yaber Matowan," below which are mint marks 

 consisting of a rose (?), the letter "A," and a torch. Date, 1889. 

 Diameter, 25.0 mm. (Fig. 2.) 



The inscriptions were translated by Dr. I . M. Casanowicz, of the 

 U. S. National Museum. 



Mr. Philip also collected a ring of Abyssinian gold (diameter, 25.0 

 mm., pi. 32, fig. 7) such as were used in Abyssinia and on the east 

 coast of Africa and which are said to have been a form of money of the 

 Fourth Egyptian Dynasty, but to the best of my knowledge no speci- 

 mens have been found by investigators in the remains of the culture 

 of ancient Egypt. 



(Pis. 33, 34, Cat. No. 261889, U.S.N.M.) 



