88 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Zancle in Sicily. — An archaic silver stater of Aeginetic 

 weight dating from the middle of the sixth century B.C. 

 Obverse, DANKL Dolphin within a sickle-shaped harbour ; 

 reverse, the same type repeated, incuse. This coin was 

 found with five others of the same class in 1895 on the 

 Catania, Road near Messina. Previously.no Sicilian coins 

 ,were known with the obverse type repeated in an incuse 

 form on the reverse, this fashion being peculiar to the cities 

 of S. Italy. It is important as evidence of intimate com- 

 mercial relations between the Sicilian city of Zancle and the 

 towns belonging to the monetary convention of Magna 

 Graecia. 



Marbnea in Thrace. — A fifth century silver stater. 

 06wrse, Free horse ; reverse, EPI POZIAHIO Vine in an 

 incuse square. 



Imbros. — A small bronze coin of the third century B.C. 

 Reverse, Ithj^phallic figure of Hermes Imbramos, a Pelasgic 

 divinity of reproduction. (See Herod. II. 51 and Steph. 

 Byz. s.v. Imbros.) 



Crannon in Thessaly. — A fourth century bronze coin. 

 Reverse, a large Hydria on a Car with a Crow in front. See 

 Antigonus Carystius {Hist. Mirab. 15), who says that the 

 device of Crannon was two crows seated on a car, and that, 

 in time of drought, it was the custom there to drive about a 

 chariot of this description whilst petitioning Zeus for rain. 



Rhizus in Thessaly. — A unique bronze coin of fine style. 

 Obverse, Head of Artemis; reverse, PHOY[ZAin]N 

 between the rays of a star. No coins of Rhizus were 

 previously known. Scylax (p. 24) places Rhizus on the outer 

 shore of the Pagasaean Gulf. Its inhabitants were trans- 

 ferred to Demetrias when that city was founded. 



Eretria in Euhoea. — Two rare fifth century drachms. 

 Obverse, Co\Y ; reverse. Sepia. One specimen has the letter 

 A (?) under the Cow, and the other, E on the body of the 

 Sepia. The first of these may therefore belong to Dicaea, a 

 colony of Eretria. 



Pagae in Megaris. — Commodus. Reverse, Temple between 

 two trees on one of which sits an owl. This is a new type 

 not mentioned in Gardner and Imhoof's N'uviisviatic Com- 

 mentary on Pausanias. 



Aegium in Achaea. — Marcus Aurelius. Three remarkable 

 types (1) Archaic temple of Eileithuia mentioned by Pausanias 

 (VII. 23, 5) Avith two long torches standing before it. (ii) 

 Seated statue of Asklepios with serpent twined round altar 

 before it (Cf. Pausanias VII. 23, 7). (iii) Two identical figures 

 of Tyche side by side. The duplication of the figure is 

 unexplained. 



