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proves that the old types remained unchanged at Pantica- 

 pseum for a considerable time. 



Byzantium in Thrace. — A splendid specimen of the very- 

 rare tetradrachm ; Obverse, Head of veiled Demeter ; reverse, 

 Poseidon seated. Magistrate's name, EPI OAYMPIOA- 

 XIPOY. As Olympiodorus was one of the ^' Prostata}" ot 

 Byzantium in B.C. 221 (Polyb. iv. 50) the date of the issue of 

 this coin can be fixed to a year. From the Thoma.s and 

 Northwick Cabinets. 



Odessus in Thrace. — An extremely interesting tetradrachm 

 of the highest rarity, dating from about B.C. 200. Obverse, 

 Bearded head with flowing locks of hair, bound with a taenia, 

 round which a fillet is twisted ; reverse, Bearded figure draped 

 holding phiale and cornucopise. Inscr. 0EOY METAAOY 

 OAH, and in the exergue a magistrate's name, KYPZA- 



Lysimachus. — Seven varieties of the Lysimachian gold 

 stater, struck at different mints. The first of these, from the 

 Thomas Collection, is a specimen of rare beauty. Another, 

 from the Northwick Cabinet, was struck at Ephesus between 

 B.C. 295 and 281, while Lysimachus was master of that city. 



Amjphi'polis in Macedon. — A tetradrachm, circ. B.C. 400, 

 having on the obverse a fine head of Apollo, three-quarter face 

 towards right. From the Bowen Collection. 



Chalcidice in Macedon. — Federal Coinage, B.C. 392-379. 

 A tetradrachm, with a head of Apollo of unusual beauty 

 on the obverse, and with a Lyre on the reverse. 



Alexander the Great. — Ten new varieties of the gold 

 stater and fifty of the tetradrachm, several of which are 

 unique and many of great rarity. 



Demetrius Foliorcetes, B.C. 306-283. — A very rare gold 

 stater of the Alexandrine type, with the monogram of his 

 father Antigonus in the^ie^cZ. 



Pherce in Thessaly. — Alexander the Tyrant, B.C. 369-357 (?). 

 A drachm. Obverse, Head of Hellas in myrtle wreath ; 

 reverse, AAEZANAPEIA [^paxfti?], Lion's head. On the 

 obverse is a magistrate's name, ENNOIOZ- From the 

 Fhotiades Collection. 



Epirus. — A silver stater of Alexander, son of Neopto- 

 lemus, B.C. 342-336, a coin of excessive rarity. 



Thyrrheium in Acarnania. — A silver stater of the Federal 

 type, struck after B.C. 167, with the magistrate's name, 

 ZENOMENHZ, probably an ancestor of the Xenomenes of 

 Thyrrheium who entertained Cicero when he passed through 

 the town, B.C. 51-50. 



0.125. ^tolia.— 



