74 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



jEtolia.—A. silver coin of the League, B.C. 279-168, in fine 

 condition and very rare. Obverse, Head of JEtolos ; reverse, 

 ^tolos standing with foot on rock. 



Carystus in Euhcea (?). — An archaic stater of ^ginetic 

 weight of the 8th (?) century B.C. Obverse, Cock ; reverse, 

 Incuse square divided into triangular compartments. This 

 very rare, if not unique, coin is probably the specimen from 

 the Santorin Find. {See Num. Chron., Ser. III.. Vol. IV., 

 p. 276.) 



Athens. — Two very remarkable archaic tetradrachms from 

 the Bunbury Collection. Presented by Hermann Weber, 

 Esq., M.D. 



Athens. — Sixty -five tetradrachms of the later style. All 

 new varieties. 



Athens. — A gold stater of extreme rarity, struck at Athens 

 in B.C. 87-86 by Aristion, one of the partisans of Mithra- 

 dates the Great, who, in addition to his own name, placed 

 also upon the coin the complimentary inscription, BASIAE 

 MI0PAAATHZ and the symbol or signet of the king, a sun 

 between two crescents. 



This specimen came from the Photiades Collection, and only 

 two others are known, one in the Paris (De Luynes) Collec- 

 tion, and the other in the Royal Museum, Berlin. 



LacedcBmon. Nabis, tyrant, B.C. 206-192. — A tetradrachm. 

 Obverse, A life-like portrait of Nabis, laureate, to the right ; 

 reverse, BAIAEOZ (sic) NABIOZ- Herakles, naked, seated 

 on rock covered with lion's skin, his right hand resting on 

 club. This remarkable coin is unique and of great historical 

 interest ; first, on account of the portrait, the only one 

 extant, of the famous tyrant ; and next, on account of the 

 reverse inscriptioii, from which we learn a fact mentioned by 

 no historian, viz., that Nabis assumed the title of king. The 

 form NABIOZ is also new, as all the writers give the 

 genitive as Na|3(Soc. This is not an engraver's blunder (like 

 BAIAEOZ for BAZIAEOZ), for it occurs also on the 

 only other known coin of Nabis, a specimen far less in- 

 teresting than the present one, as it lacks the portrait and 

 the title of "king." (See Lambros' Peloijonnesus, p. 89.) 



Pheneus in Arcadia. — An extremely rare silver stater 

 (circ. B.C. 362). The type of the reverse refers to the myth 

 of the rescue of the infant Arkas by Hermes, who carried 

 him to the nymph Maia on Mount Kyllene to be reared. 

 (Apollod. III., 8, 2.) 



Crete. — Twenty-four rare staters and drachms of various 

 cities in this island. 



Phcestus in Crete. — B.C. 400-300. A silver stater. Obverse, 

 Herakles contending with Hydra, the group being repre- 

 sented 



