GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 823 



plate 46, fig. 1. Very interesting indeed are the coins of tin or an 

 alloy in which that metal is in excess though these are believed to be 

 Gaulish rather than British, although the head of the Philippus proto. 

 type is rudely reproduced, while the animal upon the reverse is believed 

 by Doctor Evans to represent a bull rather than the horse. Plate 47, 

 figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7. 



The human head upon the obverse is the rude representation of that 

 part of the body, the face being indicated by two crescents, one above 

 the other, with the concave side outward. The eye consists either of 

 a simple ring, a nucleated ring, or the latter attached to a stem which 

 extends down toward the neck. The animal form upon the reverse is 

 readily determined by comparison with other coins showing variants. 



The two characters beneath the animal form on plate 47, fig. 4, appear 

 to be a remnant of or to have been suggested by the exergual legend 

 on the prototype on which the name, in Greek characters, of Philippus 

 occurs. 



On some of the British coins no trace of a legend remains, but in a 

 few instances some apparently meaningless characters appear to have 

 been introduced, clearly indicating that the engraver was aware of 

 some legend upon his copy, but being unacquainted with its import or 

 signification, introduced an equivalent in so far as ornamentation was 

 concerned, following the custom of geometric decoration. Such an illus 

 tration is here reproduced on plate 46, figs. 3, 4, and 7. In other 

 examples again, this style of zigzag decoration is omitted below the 

 exergue line and a nucleated circle portrayed instead of a legend or 

 other character, as in plate 47, fig. 1. 



The wheel of the chariot, which is apparent in the prototype, is gen 

 erally oval, sometimes elliptical, and in some of the British imitations 

 a second wheel is placed upon any remaining otherwise vacant spot, 

 such an illustration being reproduced on plate 47, fig. 3, while in plate 



46, fig. 8, two wheel-like characters are introduced, one above the body 

 of the horse and the other beneath, instead of the common nucleated 

 ring. In examining the numerous examples of coins one finds too that 

 the British engraver has introduced, instead of the figure of a char 

 ioteer, a number of disjointed pellets or rings, and short straight or 

 curved lines, making it almost impossible to trace the original in this 

 jumble of characters. In some instances these segregated dots and 

 lines again appear to become readjusted, ultimately forming a chari 

 oteer in the form of what seems to be a winged figure of victory. 



Similar unique and interesting imitations occur on the obverse of 

 the British coins, in which the engraver s interpretation of the head 

 of Apollo (or Hercules) is shown, sometimes as a fanciful cross, plate 



47, fig. 1, and in other instances as an ear of grain, examples being 

 shown in plate 46, figs. 3, 5, and 7. 



In this use of the circles, nucleated rings, and other British or Gaul 

 ish symbols upon British coins, no evidence appears of the transmission 



