DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 



73 





II.- 



—Acquisitions, 



1892. 









CLASS. 



Gold. 



1 



Silver. Bronze. 



Billon. 



Lead. 



Iron. 



Glass. 



TOTAL. 



Greek .... 



10 



99 



343 



_ 



- 



_ 



- 



457 



Roman .... 



2 



- 



1 



- 



- 



- 



- 



3 



Mediaeval and Modern 



1 



40 



8 



- 



- 





- 



44 



English . . - . 



2 



30 



17 



5 



2 



' 



_ 



56 



Oriental ... - 



65 



158 



206 



- 



17 



1 



1 



443 



Total - - - 



80 



327 



575 



5 



19 



1 



1 



1,008 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 



1. Greek Series : — 



Diccea in Macedonia. — A very remarkable archaic hemi- 

 drachm of the Phoenician Standard ; obverse, A cock, behind 

 which, a disk containing a star, and in front a volute ; 

 reverse, Cuttle-fish in a shallow incuse square. The types of 

 this coin are those of Carystus and Eretria in Euboea, but 

 the weight and fabric point to Thrace or Macedon, as the 

 region to which the coin must be assigned. 



Mende in Macedonia. — An interesting archaic drachm, and 

 a set of sub-divisions of the drachm, the smallest being a 

 quarter obol, weighing less than two grains, all bearing 

 Dionysiac types. 



Demetrius Poliorcetes. — B.C. 306-283. A gold stater, 

 bearing on the obverse a splendid portrait of the king, and 

 on the reverse a Macedonian horseman. 



Ifymphceum in the Tauric Chersonese. — A very small 

 silver coin, circ. B.C. 400; obverse, Head of a nymph, of fine 

 style ; reverse, NYM, a vine-branch (cf. Hist. Num., p. 238). 

 Of this little known Milesian colony there were previously 

 no coins in the British Museum. 



Thrace. — A rare drachm of King Sparadocus, circ. B.C. 

 430 {Bull, de Corr. hell. III., p. 409). The reverse type, a 

 flying eagle, is proper to the town of Olynthus, where the 

 coin may have been struck. 



0.108. F 3 Abdera 



