DEPARTMENT OE COIN.S AND MEDALS, 79 



Aenus. A silver Attic tetradraclim of tke late fifth century 

 B.C. of fine style. Ohv. head of Hermes. Rev. goat, a pig's head 

 as symbol. 



Damastium and Pelagia. Two rare silver tetradrachms of 

 quasi-barbarous style of the fourth century B.C. Ohv. head of 

 Apollo. Rev. tripod and the ethnics of Damastium and Pelagia 

 respectively. Presented by Sir Arthur Evans, F.R.S. 



Elis. A very fine silver stater of the early fifth century B.C. 

 Ohv. eagle devouring hare. Rev. Nike running. 



Cyzicus. An electrum hecte with the type of a crouching 

 lion and a hemihecte with the type of a winged monster, both 

 about 400 B.C. 



Carta. A gold hecte of the dynast Pixodarus B.C. 340-334. 

 Ohv. Head of Apollo. Rev. Zeus Labrandeus. 



Tarsus. A fine specimen of the rare issue of the satrap 

 Mazaeus, b.c. 350-333. Obv. Baal-Tars seated. Rev. The walls 

 of Tarsus, above which lion killing bull, and the inscription 

 " Mazaeus ruler of the country beyond the Euphrates and 

 Cilicia " in Aramaic, with mint letters differing from those 

 on the Museum specimen. 



Syria. A tetradrachm of Antiochus IX. with the reverse type 

 of the monument of Sandan. Presented by Miss Helen Farquhar. 



The Greek series has received a most useful accession in the 

 collection bequeathed to it by the late Mr. H. B. Earie Fox. 

 Among many other coins, principally of European Greece, may 

 be noted a series of over four hundred Athenian coins of all 

 periods, mostly copper, but including a very fine silver tetra- 

 drachm of the sixth century B.C., and an abundant series of the 

 smaller silver denominations in which the Museum collection had 

 previously been relatively weak, as well as four hundred and 

 eighty varieties of the coinage of Corinth as a Roman colony. 



Among other Greek coins acquired during the year may be 

 noted the following : — 



Hatria. A fine variety of the copper As of the early fourth 

 century B.C., with types of the facing head of Silenus and the 

 sleeping dog. 



Velia. A silver Campanian didrachm of about 400 b.c. Ohv. 

 Head of Pallas, the bowl of her helmet decorated with Scylla 

 (an ornament hitherto unknown at this mint). Rev. Lion 

 bringing down stag. 



Macedon. A silver stater of Philip II. of unusually fine style 

 and condition, with the star mintmark. 



Olhia. An unpublished silver tetradrachm of the first century 

 A.D. of Inensimeus, King of Olbia. Obv. Diademed bust of 

 Inensimeus with his name and title. Rev. Head of Apollo with 

 the name of the moneyer Niceratus and symbol bow. 



Crannon. An example of the very rare silver drachm of the 

 early fifth century B.C. Ohv. Taurokathapsia. Rev. Horse with 

 trailing rein and trident. 



