DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 93 



Neapolis in 6'awi(xri(X. ^-Philip Junior. A Colonial coin. 

 Reverse, Eagle, with expanded wings, supporting an agalma 

 of Mount Gerizim, wdth its two summits surmounted 

 respectively by a temple and an altar. (C/. Hist. Num., 



,p. 678). 



Judaea. — Herod Philip II, B.C. 4 — A.D. 34. Reverse, 

 EHI <|>IAinnOY TETPAPXOY KTIZ- Temple and date 

 AA (= year 34). The title Krto-rrjc on this coin is quite new. 

 It may refer to Philip as the Founder of Caesarea Philippi. 



Nahathaea.^—A. silver drachm, probably of Obodas II, with, 

 on the reverse, jugate heads of his son and daughter (?) 

 Aretas IV and Hulda. {Of. Annuaire de Numismatique, 

 1873, PI. I., 8). 



Egypt. — Ptolemy I, Soter. A unique and very beautiful 

 silver stater. Obverse, Head of Alexander the Great with 

 Ammon's horn, and covered with Elephant's skin ; reverse, 

 nXOAEMAlOY, Fighting Athena. This remarkable coin 

 must have been struck by Ptolemy after the death of 

 Alexander IV, B.C. 311, and before his adoption of the title 

 BamXevQ in B.C. 306. It was probably issued in Cyprus, though 

 in style it differs from all the rest of the Cyprian mintage of 

 Alexander which belongs to the period before B.C. 311. 



2. Roman Series : — 



A double aureus of Diocletian struck at Rome about A.D. 

 300. Obverse, Bust of the Emperor wearing radiate crown ; 

 reverse, PERPETVA FELICITAS AVGG. Victory presen- 

 ting a globe to the Emperor in the character of Jupiter, who 

 rests his foot on the back of a seated Armenian captive. 



This fine coin, which commemorates the conquest of 

 Armenia by Diocletian, is unpublished. 



3. British and Colonial Series : — 



A penny and a half -penny of Eadgar, A.D. 957-975. The 

 half-penny is a unique example of that denomination in 

 Eadgar's reign and is of very peculiar type ; obverse, small 

 cross pattee surrounded by the King's name, and reverse, floral 

 device enclosing the letters UA and below, the moneyer's name 

 HILDVLF- This type only occurs on two earlier coins, one 

 of Eadward the Elder and the other of Anlaf of Northumbria, 

 both struck at York, to which mint the unique coin of 

 Eadgar may also be assigned. 



The penny is also interesting as it has for reverse type a 

 mitre-shaped object, and the moneyer's name OSPALD 

 (Oswald), which also occurs on coins of the same type of 

 Eadwig, A.D. 955-959. As the type is ecclesiastical York was 

 probably the place of mintage of this unique penny. 



