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Ancient Greek Coin found at Ewart, in Glendale. 



(Plate XXV.) 



A MOST unusual discovery of an old Greek coin in northern 

 England ^as made in September 1901, by Mr G. G. Butler's 

 gardener. He picked it up from amongst some river gravel 

 which had been brought from the bank of the Glen, and 

 deposited in front of the cottages at Ewart Bridge End. This 

 coin was shown by Mr Butler to the members of the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, when they dined at the Avenue 

 Hotel, Berwick, after the Annual Meeting, on October 17th 

 1901. It is a bronze coin, fairly well preserved, though worn 

 away at the margin. The accompanying plate contains a 

 photograph of both sides of the coin,* made by Mr Newbigin, 

 of Alnwick ; and there is added a rough sketch, intended partly 

 as a restoration of the design, and partly as a diagram to 

 explain it. On one side is a head of Hiero, the Syracusan 

 monarch, on the other the figure of a trident, without the 

 shaft, a dolphin on either side of it, and a floral device 

 between the prongs. Beneath the trident are the Greek letters 

 lEPliNOS Air (leronos Aig), which shows that the coin was 

 issued at Syracuse, of which Hiero was king : the letters 

 AIG, as Mr Butler was informed at the British Museum, 

 indicating the magistrate in whose jurisdiction the coin was 

 struck. It is very rarely that a Greek or Sicilian coin (Syracuse 

 having been a Greek colony) has been found in England. 



* The diameter magnified to twice the actual size. 



