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Larissa in Thessaly. — A bronze coin, circ. B.C. 400, bear- 

 ing a head of Asklepios, with a serpent in front. 



Magnesia in Thessaly. — A bronze coin, B.C. 197-146 ; ob- 

 verse, Head of Zeus or Asklepios; reverse, Asklepios seated. 



Orthe in Thessaly, — A very rare bronze coin; obverse, 

 Head of Athena ; reverse, OP0I, Trident in wreath. 



Tricca in Thessaly. — A fourth century unpublished bronze 

 coin ; obverse, Head of Nymph Tricca ; reverse, Asklepios 

 seated, holding a bird before a coiled serpent ; an interesting 

 variety of the Asklepios types already known. 



Acarnania. — A silver stater, B.C. 250-1G7, with new types; 

 obverse, Head of bearded Acheloiis ; reverse, AKAPNANON, 

 Apollo Kitharoedos ; symbol. Elephant. 



Cyrtie in Euboea .? —A very rare archaic didrachm attri- 

 buted by Head {Hist. Num., p. 305) to Cyme in the sixth 

 century B.C. ; obverse. Hinder part of a horse ; reverse, 

 Incuse square. 



Histioia in Euboea. — A very beautiful drachm, B.C. 3-39- 

 336, superior in style to any specimen previously in the 

 British Museum. 



Athens. — A curious archaic drachm with an entirely new 

 obverse type, an object resembling a scarabseus, from the Pho- 

 tiades Collection. 



A drachm of the series bearing the name of Antiochus IV. 

 (Epiphanes) of Syria, together with his symbol, an elephant's 

 head, struck during his sojourn at Athens, B.C. 175, in which 

 year he apparently held the annual office of orparrjyoc fTri 

 TO. oirXa (cf. Th. Reinach 'Les Stratdges sur les monnaies 

 d'Athenes,' in the Revue des etudes grecques, 1888). 



A tetradrachm of late date (b.c. 146-87, bearing the names 

 of the two strategi Hikesios and Asklepiades ; symbol, 

 Wreath. 



Patrm in Achaia. — A bronze coin, circ. B.C. 146; obverse, 

 A conical chest within an ivy wreath ; reverse, Artemis. The 

 obverse type is believed to represent the sacred chest in 

 which the statue of Dionysos at Patrse was kept, ^lovvaov 

 ^l a-yaXjxa r\v Iv rp \apvaKL (Paus. vii. 19. 6). 



Elis. — -An exceedingly rare silver stater, circ. B.C. 400; 

 obverse. Eagle devouring serpent ; reverse, Nike seated on 

 steps holding long palm and olive wreath. This is a new 

 variety of the exquisite Nike Stater of Elis previously in the 

 British Museum. 



Epidaurus. — A drachm, B.C. 330-280; obverse. Head of 



Asklepios ; reverse, Asklepios enthroned, with his hand ex- 



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