74 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



Ahdera in Thrace. — A rare silver stater, B.C. 430-408, of 

 the Aeginetic Standard ; reverse, Head of Hermes, and 

 magistrate's name, HPAFOPHS. 



Thasos. — A drachm of the period after B.C. 146, when 

 Thasos began again to issue silver money after an interval of 

 more than a century (Hist. Num., p. 229). 



PhercB in Thessaly. — An archaic obol ; obverse, Bull's head 

 and dolphin, emblems of the worship of Poseidon Tavpeog 

 {Hist. Num., p. 246) ; reverse, <I>ERA, Head and neck of 

 bridled horse. 



Alexander, Tyrant of Pherw, B.C. 369-357. —An obol; 

 obverse, A wheel ; reverse, AAE, Double-axe {niXtKVQ) ; (of. 

 Schol. in Horn., II. xxiv., 428. OsoTTo/uLTrog (l)r]aiv 'AXi^avSpov 

 (^epaTov Aiovvaov rbv Iv IlajacraTg, og eKoXeiTO IleXeKvg evaepeiv 

 dia(l>6pii)g.) 



Athens. — A gold quarter-stater, B.C. 407-393 (see 5. M. Gat. 

 Attica, Introd., p. xxvi.). This is the first sub-division of 

 the Athenian gold stater acquired by the British Museum. 



Aegina. — A diobol of a new type, two dolphins in opposite 

 directions. This coin is probably anterior to B.C. 431. 



Patrce in Achaia. — A bronze coin of Domitian, bearing a 

 copy of the cultus-statue of Artemis Laphria, the work of 

 Mensechmus and Soidas of Naupactus, mentioned by 

 Pausanias (vii. 18, 6j. 



Amisus in Pontus. — A bronze coin of Caracalla of a very 

 unusual type, Tyche veiled, seated on a throne, holding a 

 rudder placed upon a bearded human head, which is, perhaps, 

 intended for the River god Lycastus, though it has been 

 described by Imhoof (Mon. gr., p. 226), as Zeus or Sarapis. 

 This coin is dated CMH = 248 of the era of Amisus = A.D. 

 217. 



Sinope in Paphlagonia. — Two rare silver drachms of the 

 4th century, B.C., bearing the na.me of a Satrap in Aramaic 

 characters, a name which on other specimens, all more or less 

 imperfect, has been variously read as Abd Sinob, Abdemon, 

 Abdammon, and Abrocomas, but which the newly acquired 

 coins prove beyond all doubt to be in reality Abdsasan. 

 (See Num. Chron. 1892, p. 253.) 



Heraclea in Bithynia. — Gallienus ; reverse, HPAKAHAC 

 NEQKO. . . Herakles subduing one of the Mares of Diomedes, 

 a labour very rarely represented on coins. It was doubted 

 by Eckhel, whether the title ^iwKopog was ever conferred 

 upon the Bithynian Heraclea, but, as a coin bearing that title 

 has been found on the site of Heraclea, there can be no longer 

 any doubt that the attribution is correct. 



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