82 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



(b.) Asia: — 



Pontus. — Mithradates the Great {Ewpator). — A rare tetra- 

 drachm, of which only a very few specimens have lately been 

 discovered, on which the king's title reads BAZIAEflZ 

 EYPATOPOZ, his name MI0PAAATOY being omitted. 

 Also a tetradrachm from the Bunbury Collection bearing a 

 very realistic portrait of the same king and struck in the year 

 208 of the Bithynian era (= B.C. 90-89). 



Amasia in Pontus. — Two bronze coins of Sept. Severus 

 and Geta with representations on the reverses of the great 

 sacrificial altar of Zeus Stratios. {See Appian., Mithrid,, ed. 

 Steph, p. 215.) From the Bunbury Collection. 



Bithynia.—'Nicomedes II., B.C. 149-95. Seven tetradrachms 

 showing successive portraits of the King at different periods 

 of his reign. From the Bunbury Collection. 



Cyzicus in Mysia. — An electrum stater having on the 

 obverse a very bold and picturesque head of Odysseus 

 wearing a conical hat wreathed with laurel. This is the 

 finest of three specimens known. From the Collection of the 

 late Earl of Ashburnham. 



Alexandria Troas. — A drachm dated 223 of the Seleucid 

 -era (= B.C. 90) bearing a full length figure of Apollo 

 Smintheus and a magistrate's signature ArjXIPYAOY. 



Antandrus in the Troad. — A drachm with a head of 

 Artemis Astyrene on the obverse and a goat on the reverse. 

 From the Bunbury Collection. 



Assus in the Troad. — An unpublished medallion of the 

 reign of Marcus Aurelius. 



Asia, Roman province. — Eleven rare Cistophori of 

 Adramyteum, Barium or Apamea, and Bergamum, and 41 

 others of Ephesus, Sardes, and Tralles, some with names 

 ^f Roman Broconsuls. From the Bunbury Collection. 



Alexander the Great. — Twenty-seven Asiatic silver coins, 

 a few of Alexander's own time, but chiefly belonging to the 

 interesting class of coins of a commemorative character 

 struck in Western Asia Minor in the early part of the 

 2nd Cent. B.C. From the Montagu Collection. 



Ephesus in Ionia. — An extremely rare gold coin of which 

 only one other example is known (Thomas Sale, 1844). 

 Mommsen (Hist. Mon., Rom,., Vol. II., p. 444) is of opinion 

 that it was struck by Sulla in B.C. 84 for circulation in the 

 Homan province of Asia. On the obverse is a bust of the Greek 

 Artemis and on the reverse a cultus-efiigy of the Asiatic or 



