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Hehryzelmis or Hehrytelmis, King of the Odrysce in 

 Thrace, B.C. 386-5. A well preserved bronze coin ; obverse, 

 male head to left ; reverse, EBPYXEAMI02, and fore-part of 

 lion in an incuse circle. This unique coin gives, for the first 

 time, the name of the king in full, and it is noteworthy that it 

 differs in two details from the form of the name occurring in 

 the inscription discovered a few years ago on the Acropolis 

 at Athens (Hoeck, Hermes, Vol. xxvi., p. 454), where it is 

 written 'Ef^piireXfiig, gen. 'Ef^pvTeXjui^og. 



Locri Opuntii. — A very rare drachm belonging to the 

 period B.C. 369-338. The only other extant specimen of this 

 drachm formed part of the famous Photiades Collection. On 

 the reverse is a figure of the Locrian hero Ajax the Less, seen 

 from behind, and armed with a spear in place of a sword. 

 His shield is pierced by the point of his adversary's spear, 

 an ingenious touch, by which the artist suggests a single 

 combat quite in the Homeric spirit which the space at his 

 disposal precludes him from delineating in full. 



Eretria in Euhcea. — An archaic tetradrachm, circ. B.C. 480, 

 with the letter B above the octopus on the reverse, and 

 diff'ering in style and fabric from all specimens yet published. 



Athens. — Atetvsidra,chin struck in B.C. 85, the year after the 

 siege and capture of the city by Sulla. This is one of the 

 very few Athenian coins which admits of being accurately 

 dated, and it is consequently a historical document of some 

 importance. The two trophies on the reverse commemorating 

 Sulla's victories are casually mentioned by Plutarch (Sulla, 

 xix. 5) ; and Pausanias (ix. 40, 4) says that they were still in 

 position in his time, more than two centuries and a half after 

 Sulla's death. A similar coin is published in the Zeitschrift 

 fur Numisrtiatik, xii. 383. 



Corinth (?). --A double denarius of Messalina, wife of the 

 Emperor Claudius (wt. 103-4 grs.) ; obverse, MESSALEINA 

 AVGVSTI, Bust of the Empress : reverse, BEITANNICVS. 

 ANTONIA. OCTAVIA. Britannicus, son of Claudius and Mes- 

 salina, standing between his two sisters. This coin is at present 

 unique. Of Rome itself there are no coins whatever of Messalina, 

 and although there exist a few inferior bronze coins bearing 

 her name in Greek letters, this is, with a single exception, the 

 only one known with a Latin legend, a fact which proves 

 that it must have been struck either in the Roman Province 

 of Asia, or, as is more probable, at some Roman Colony. As 

 the only other coin of Messalina, with a Latin inscription, 

 bears the names of two Corinthian " duoviri " (Capito and 

 Cithero), the attribution of this remarkable silver piece to 

 the Roman colony of Corinth seems amply warranted. 



Elis. — A stater, circ. B.C. 450, and*a drachm circ. B.C. 370- 

 0.107. G 362; two 



