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on this coin is a portrait, it is undoubtedly the earliest 

 portrait on any Greek coin. The other stater bears a figure 

 of Zeus in a kneeling posture, resting with right hand on 

 sceptre, and holding on his left hand an eagle with open 

 wings. Canon Greenwell, in his article on the Coinage of 

 Cyzicus, mentions only one other specimen of this type, which 

 is in the Paris collection. 



A fine Alexandrine tetradrachm of Mytilene, struck after 

 B.C. 200. 



Rare coins of Clazomenaj, Colophon, and Teos, in Ionia. 



A tetradrachm of Ephesus, bearing the name of a Prytanis, 

 EXEAAMAS, hitherto unrecorded. 



A very fine tetradrachm of Magnesia ad Mseandrum ; 

 obverse. Head of Artemis ; reverse, Apollo standing, Magis- 

 trate's name, EPASmnOSA PISTEOY. The tetradrachms of 

 Magnesia of this period, circ. B.C. 190, are of considerable 

 rarity. 



A very rare tetradrachm of Cnidus in Caria, having on the 

 obverse a head of Aphrodite of fine style, and on the reverse 

 a Lion's head. The head on the obverse is possibly copied 

 from that of the famous statue of the Cnidian Aphrodite, by 

 Praxiteles. 



An Alexandrine tetradrachm of Astypalsea in Caria, circ. 

 B.C. 200. 



An extremely rare archaic silver stater of one of the 

 Greek islands, probably Cos ; obverse, Crab ; reverse. Incuse 

 square. This coin formed one of a small hoard of early 

 island coins, an account of which is published in the Numis- 

 matic Chronicle, 1890, p. 13. 



A fine stater of Camirus in Rhodes, circ. B.C. 500, of the 

 iEginetic standard. 



A remarkably fine electrum trite, or ^ stater, of Sardes ; of 

 the archaic period, B.C. 700-500 ; obverse. Lion's head ; reverse. 

 Two incuse squares. 



An unpublished and remarkable silver stater, struck pro- 

 bably in Cilicia during the latter half of the 5th century, B.C. ; 

 obverse, A winged goat to left, with bird upon his back ; 

 reverse. Owl with spread wings in incuse square ; on either 

 side of the owl is a crux ansata. This coin may be 

 compared with a somewhat similar coin in the British 

 Museum (Head, Hist. Num., p. 424), which has been attributed 

 by M. Six to Amisus in Pontus, but the winged goat and the 

 symbol on the new coin, as well as the style of art, seem to 

 point rather to Cilicia than to Pontus as the country to which 

 both coins should be assigned. 



An unpublished bronze coin, probably of the Imperial timo., 

 struck at Olba in Cilicia ; obverse, Club ; reverse, OABEQN, 

 A castellated tower. 



A well-preserved specimen of the gold double daric, with 

 the usual type. King of Persia kneeling and a Greek mono- 

 gram in the field. 



A fine and rare bronze coin of Diodotus, the first king of 



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