76 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Macedonia. — 35 tetradrachms and 56 drachms and smaller 

 denominations of the coinage of Alexander the Great. 



Perrhoihi in Thessaly. — A trihemiobol (B.C. 480-400) of an 

 unpublished type. Obverse, Thessalian leading his horse ; 

 reverse, Athena standing. 



Pherce in Thessaly. — A bronze coin of the tyrant Teisi- 

 phonus, B.C. 357-352, who usurped the tyranny after the 

 assassination of Alexander of Phertie. Obverse, Forepart of 

 bull; reverse, TEIZI<{)ONOY, Forepart of horse (cp. Revue 

 JHunzismatique, 1853, pi. xiv. 10). 



Locri. — A tritetartemorion or ^ obol. Obverse, Head of 

 Apollo ; reverse, AO Grapes. Struck after the battle of 

 Chseronea, B.C. 338. This is the first specimen in silver 

 which has come to light. 



Euboia. — An archaic electrum twelfth of a stater of the 

 Euboic standard. Obverse, Bull's head, the type of the town 

 of Eretria. This remarkable and perhaps unique coin (cp. 

 Revue Num. 1864, pi. vii. 10) by its weight, type, style, 

 fabric, and place of discovery contributes to prove that an 

 electrum currency was in use in that island in the earliest 

 times. 



Athens.— A drachm of the EYBOYAIAHZ— ArA0O- 



KAHZ series, B.C. 18G-147, of which only tetradrachms were 

 previously known. 



Patrce. — A bronze colonial coin of the reign of Claudius. 

 Presented by Sir John Evans, k.c.b., d.c.l. 



Crete. — Four very rare tetradrachms with Athenian types 

 struck circ. B.C. 200 at Gortyna, Hierapytna, Polyrhenium, 

 and Priansus. 



(b.) Asia Minor, &c. : — 



Aemilium {?). — A bronze coin of the first century B.C. attri- 

 buted (Zeitschrift fur Numismatik, xx. 271) to this hitherto 

 unknown town in Pontus. 



Neoclaudioiwlis in Pa^Magonia. — An unpublished bronze 

 coin of Antoninus Pius. Reverse, Athena standing. 



Bithynia (J). — An unpublished bronze coin of Domitian, 

 probably struck about the time of his Dacian triumph, a.d. 91. 

 Reverse, ZEBA((Tr.u) AOMITIANH AEAOV(X£i;//£'vr,) 

 r€TIKH. Personification of Getia ( = Dacia) as a kneeling 

 captive. 



Alexandria Troas. — A rare bronze coin of Caracalla. 

 Reverse, Man standing beside a column on which is a statue 

 of Apollo Smintheus. 



