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The donations are chiefly due to the generosity of the 

 following persons, institutions, &c. : — 



His Highness the Chief of Vala, Kathiawar, India ; His 

 Excellency the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador ; the Govern- 

 ment of the N.W. Provinces and Oudh ; the Government 

 Museum, Madras ; the Bombay Branch of the Boyal Asiatic 

 Society ; the Egypt Exploration Fund ; the Corporation of 

 the City of London ; and the Societe des Bibliophiles Bretons 

 of Nantes. Theodore C. Barclay, Esq. ; W. G. K. Barnes, 

 Esq., M.D., Staff Surgeon, r.n. ; Frederic H. Betts, Esq. ; 

 Herr L. E. Bruun, of Copenhagen ; P. H. G. Powell-Cotton, 

 Esq. ; W. J. Davis, Esq. ; Kev. Arthur Dixon ; Sir John 

 Evans, k.c.b. ; P. Scott Falshaw, Esq. ; G. F, Hill, Esq., M.A. ; 

 Rev. James Hunter ; L. A. Lawrence, Esq. ; A. J. Lawson, 

 Esq. ; E. M. Merewether, Esq. ; Senr. Pedro Montt ; Alfred 

 Morris, Esq. ; C. R. Peers, Esq., m.a. ; C. H. Read, Esq., 

 F.S.A. ; H. J. Richardson, Esq.; J. Fox Sharp, Esq.; E. J. 

 Seltman, Esq.; Jhr. Dr. Jan Six and Jhr. Dr. W. Six of 

 Amsterdam ; Samuel Smith, Esq., Junr. ; M. S. Spero, Esq. ; 

 C. E. Steele, Esq. ; Madame L. Wiener ; Col. Worthington 

 Wilmer ; and James Young, Esq. 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 



1. Greek Series : — 



(a.) Europe : — 



Pisae in Etruria. — An extremely rare silver double stater. 

 Obverse, Sepia or squid with amphora-shaped body, flowing 

 tentacles and lateral flaps formed like helmets ; beneath, 

 mark of value XX ; reverse, plain, Wt. 350 grs. This coin, of 

 which only two other specimens are known (both found at 

 Pisa) is attributed on account of its type, the Sepia (Gk. 

 TtvQiq) to that town, the original name of which was Teuta. 

 {See Garrucci, Monete d' Italia, p. 49.) 



Mesma in Bruttii. — A very rare and beautiful bronze coin 

 of the middle of the fourth century B.C. Obverse, Head of 

 the Fountain Nymph, Medma, with an inverted vase behind 

 and a crescent in front ; reverse, a young River-god, nude, 

 seated on a rock covered with a leopard's skin, and holding 

 in his right hand a crab above a hound who sits at his feet. 

 Cf . tetradrachms of Segesta where a River-god is also repre- 

 sented as a hunter accompanied by hounds. The Crab is the 

 River crab (Telphusa fluviatilis). It recurs as a principal 

 type on later coins of the Bruttians. The town of Mesma 

 was a few miles N. of the Straits of Messina. It was 

 destroyed by Dionysius in B.C. 388, and refounded by the 

 Locrians in B.C. 366. The coin is somewhat later than this 

 date. 



