DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 83 



Ephesian Artemis with many breasts and outstretched arms. 

 Purchased in Cyprus. 



Ephesus in Ionia.— A rare didrachm of the reign of Nero, 

 inscribed with its legal current value AIAPAXMON. From 

 the Bunhury Collection. 



Erythrce in Ionia. — A very rare tetradrachm, B.C. 387- 

 300, with name of the eponymous magistrate, <|>AN NO0EM 12- 



From the Bunhury Collection. 



Erythrce in Ionia. — A bronze coin of Antoninus Pius. 

 Reverse, a recumbent liiver-god accompanied by his name 

 AA6I2N, which confirms the reading of Pliny {H. N., V. 29), 

 "nunc est Aleon Jluvius," a reading which, on the authority 

 of another coin of Erythrse with a river named AZOC, has 

 been generally disputed. These coins show that there must 

 have been two streams in the territory of the city, the Aleon 

 and the Axus. 



Alahanda — Antiochia in Caria. — B.C. 197-189. A rare 

 tetradrachm with name XPYZOFONOS. From the 

 Montagu Collection. 



Cidramus in Caria. — A bronze coin of Caracalla. Reverse, 

 veiled goddess in distyle temple with coiled serpent beside 

 her ; a new type. 



Hydisus in Caria. — A bronze coin of the 1st cent. B.C. 

 Of this place, the name of which occurs in the Athenian 

 Tribute Lists, only two or three coins are known. The 

 present specimen is a new variety, and bears a magistrate's 

 name APAKn[N]. 



Rhodes. — A unique gold stater circ. B.C. 200. Obverse, 

 Radiate head of Helios, three-quarter face; reverse, R — O, 

 rose with bud, above which, legible traces of magistrate's 

 name ATHZIAAMOZ, and, to left, his signet, a figure of 

 Artemis running, holding a torch. The name of this magis- 

 trate, accompanied by the same symbol, occurs on silver 

 coins, but this is the only gold coin, as yet known, struck at 

 Rhodes between the age of Alexander the Great and the 

 revival of commercial prosperity which followed the defeat 

 of Antiochus by the Romans at Magnesia, B.C. 190. From 

 the Montagu Collection. 



Lydia. — A gold stater of the highest rarity, of the time of 

 King Croesus, B.C. 568-554. Obverse, foreparts of Lion and 

 Bull facing one another ; reverse, double incuse square. This 

 gold stater is of the Baby Ionic standard, and weighs 164-2 grs. 

 It was probably equivalent in value to one of the electrum 

 staters of the Phoenician standard issued from various mints 

 on the west coast of Asia Minor during the 6th cent b C 

 {See Rev. Num. 1895, p. 359.) 



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