80 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Chalcis. A silver drachm of about 200 b.c. Obv. Female 

 head diademed (a portrait possibly of Euboea, the Queen of 

 Antiockus III.). Eev. Eagle with, serpent. 



Athens. A silver decadrachm of the early fifth century b.c. 

 with the types of the head of Athena and an owl facing with open 

 wings. This coin, whose existence was hitherto unrecorded, 

 appears to be the seventh known example of this extremely rare 

 and important coinage which has been thought to have been 

 issued in commemoration of the victorious close of the Persian 

 War. The head is from a different die from any of the other 

 known specimens, and, while the style is perhaps not quit© so 

 strong as that of the example already in the Museum (which 

 had been irretrievably damaged by a deep gash across the face), 

 it is in excellent condition. 



Two silver tetradrachms, local imitations of Athenian types, 

 both found on the banks of the Oxus. One bears on the reverse 

 in Aramaic the name conventionally interpreted as Mazseus, with 

 the additional inscription SA, the other the apparently unique 

 symbol of a prow of a vessel. 



Achaea. One hundred and two varieties, hitherto unrepre- 

 sented in the Museum, of the coinage of the Achaean League 

 from the collection of the late Major-General M'. G. Clerk. 



Elis. A unique variety of the silver didrachm issue of the 

 later fourth century B.C., combining an obverse die with a head 

 of Zeus similar in style to that of the issues of the middle of 

 the century, with a reverse die on which appears a spearhead 

 symbol as well as a thunderbolt and the initials HP which are 

 characteristic of the following period. 



Cnossus. An apparently unpublished silver drachm of the 

 second century B.C. with the types ohv. Head of Zeus laureate, 

 rev. Labyrinth. 



North-Western Asia Minor. Over a hundred coins, mostly 

 copper, of the Imperial period colleoted in this district and 

 containing many unpublished varieties and interesting pieces, 

 notably the second known example of the medallion struck at 

 Magnesia in Ionia in the reign of Antoninus Pius, of which the 

 reverse type is a copy of the statue of Themistoclesi which stood 

 in the market-place of that city. 



Smyrna. The second example known of the silver drachm 

 issued during the second century B.C. with types ohv. Head of 

 Apollo; rev. Homer seated, without magistrate's name. 



Lycia. A silver stater of a hitherto unknown Lycian dynast 

 Krfma about 400 B.C. Ohv. Head of Athena. Rev. Head of dynast 

 in Persian headdress with the name Krnna in Lycian characters. 



Selge. A silver stater of the second half of the fourth century 

 B.C. with the types: Ohv. Two wrestlers. Rev. Heracles, with 

 lionskin over his arm, wielding his club. 



Cihyra in Cilicia. A copper coin of the second or first century 

 B.C. with the types of Zeus and Hermes. The very rare issues 

 of this city were hitherto unrepresented in the Museum. 



