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Armenia. — A bronze coin ; ohv. Head of King to right, 

 wearing tiara ; behind, small Nike ; rev. BAZ .... MEFAAOY 

 , . . . AIAZAOY King and City-goddess. Apparently of 

 Artavasdes III. Presented anonymously. 



Phoenicia.— Goesarea ad Lihanum. — A bronze coin of 

 Elagabalus; rev. COL CESARIA LIB Founder ploughing 

 with yoke of oxen. 



Parthia. — 11 drachms of Mithradates II., Phraates III. and 

 IV., Gotarzes, Volagases I. and V. (from Khumanabad), and a 

 copper coin of Volagases II. 



Presented by Lieut. A. T. Wilson. 



Elymais. — Dynasty of Kamnaskires. — A large bronze coin of 

 Orodes (?), first century B.C. ; ohv. Head of King, behind anchor 

 and crescent ; inscription in two lines, in Chaldseo-Pehlvi script ; 

 rev. Arrangement of dashes (degraded type). Cp. Allotte de la 

 Fuye, Monnaies de VElym^aide PI. X., no. 17. 



Mauretania. — Five silver denarii of Juba II. (including one 

 with the mint-name of CAESAREA) ; and one of Juba and 

 Cleopatra. 



2. Roman Series : — 



A unique bronze coin of Augustus ; ohv. Head of Augustus 

 to left, between the letters S C ; behind, lituus ; rev. Mare, 

 with bell round her neck, browsing to right ; in exergue S C. 

 Spanish fabric. Found in the neighbourhood of an ancient 

 mine at el Centenillo, in Southern Spain. See Journal of 

 Roman Studies, Vol. I, p. 101. 



Presented by Horace Sandars, Esq., F.S.A. 



A barbarous imitation of the denarius of Tiberius, of the 

 PONTIF- MAXIM- type. From Persia. 



Presented by Lieut. A. T. Wilson. 



A rare aureus of Nero; ohv. NERO CAESAR' AVG' IMP* 

 Head of Nero to right; rev. PONTIFMAXTRP- V-PP- 

 and, in a wreath, EX S-C. Wt. 117*3 grs. 



224 denarii, from Galba to Commodus, from the find at 

 Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire. 



Four base denarii of the Emperors Probus, Gallienus, 

 Nigrinianus, and Arcadius. 



Presented by E. S. Dodgson, Esq. 

 25 bronze coins of Emperors from Probus to Focas. 



From, the Leitner Collection. 

 A rare silver siliqua of Isaac I. Comnenus ; ohv. Bust of 

 Christ holding the Gospels; rev. K€- BOH0- ICAAKIO) 

 OP0OAOZCO A€CnOTH TO) KOMNHNW. Wt. 22 5 grs. 

 The only other published specimen of this coin appears 

 to be that in the Paris Cabinet (see B.M. Gatal., Lmperial 

 Byzantine Coins, Vol. II., p. 513). 



From the Leitner Collection. 



