DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 73 



only known specimen of this denomination. Together with a 

 drachm of the same series (type : horseman to front). 



Elis. — Two silver staters of the period 400-365 B.C. ; obv. head 

 of Hera ; rev. eagle. On the second, the eagle stands on a rani's 

 head. Both are rare varieties. Presented hy Henry Van den 

 Bergh, Esq., and George Eumorfopoulos, Esq., respectively. 



Delos. — Two early silver staters, of about 500 B.C. Type : 

 Lyre, with letter A above. The only two known specimens of 

 this coinage. 



Chersonesus in Crete. — Silver stater of the fourth century B.C. ; 

 obv. Nymph's head ; rev. Heracles wielding his club. The only 

 known specimen of the stater of fine style, other issues being by 

 inferior engravers. 



Cyzicus. — Four fine electrum staters of the fifth-fourth centuries, 

 Avith the types of a lion breaking a sword, a lioness, an eagle, and 

 the head of Perseus. 



Lampsacus in Mysla. — Five gold staters of the fourth century, 

 with the types of Victory sacrificing a ram, head of Hera, head of 

 Dionysus, head of Hecate, and head of a nymph. The first two are 

 unique, and all five are among the most precious of Greek coins. 



Smyrna. — A unique stater (obv. head of Apollo, rev. lyre), 

 proving that the city, which was hitherto supposed to have lain 

 in ruins from 585 B.C. to the Hellenistic period, was restored about 

 400 B.C., the date of the coin. 



Cnidus in Caria. — A silver tetradrachm of the early third cen- 

 tury B.C. ; obv. head of Aphrodite ; rev. forepart of a lion, with 

 the magistrate's name Telesiphron. The finest known tetradrachm 

 of the period. Presented by the National Art Collections Fund. 



Barca in Cyrenaica. — A silver tetradrachm of the fourth century 

 B.C. ; obv. Silphium plant ; rev. head of Zeus Amnion. Presented 

 by Mrs. Ernest Schuster. 



Other Greek coins acquired during the year : — 



A rare silver fourth-century stater of Velia in S. Italy ; obv. 

 head of Athena, with hippocamp on helmet ; rev. lion prowling ; 

 symbol, trident. Presented by Stanley Robinson, Esq. 



A fine didrachm of Thurium in S. Italy of the end of the fifth 

 century, having the artist's initial A on the haunch of the bull which 

 forms the reverse type. 



A rare fifth century silver tetradrachm of Messana in Sicily, 

 with the sequence letter p on the reverse. 



An electrum 1/3 stater of the Milesian Standard, of the 7th 

 cent. B.C., found at Calymnos. Presented by Prof. J. L. Myres. 



34 silver coins of Sinope, of the end of the fifth and beginning 

 of the fourth century B.C., from a find. 



A rare fourth century silver stater of Aspendus in Pamphylia, 

 with the usual types of a slinger and a pair of wrestlers, and the 

 additional inscription in the Pamphylian alphabet : Menetys Elypsa. 



An unpublished silver fifth century half-drachm of Gyrene with 

 the types of a swan's head and a Gorgon's mask. 



