DEPAETMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 91 



Paphos in Cyprus. — A silver drachm (circ. B.C. 860) ; obverse, 

 Head of Aphrodite, wearing a crenelated crown ; reverse, in 

 Cypriote characters, Ba-ai-X^-Vo ae So-ra-^o-o-e (?) dove flying. 

 The head of Aphrodite on the obverse of this beautiful coin 

 belongs to the finest period of Greek art, and no Cypriote 

 coin bearing these types is at present known. The legend, 

 though difiicult to decipher, evidently preserves the name of 

 a hitherto unknown King of Paphos. 



Syria, Antiochus VII. (Euergetes). — A very rare silver 

 drachm, new to the Museum, and not published in Babelon's 

 Monnaies Seleucides in the Bibliotheque Nationale. On 

 the reverse is the God Sandan standing on the back of a 

 lion, as he is represented on the so-called " Tomb of Sardana- 

 palus " on the coins of Tarsus. 



Sidon in Phoenicia. — A fine bronze coin of Elagabalus, 

 with a representation of the sacred Shrine of Astarte borne 

 upon wheels (cf. Eckhel, Doct. Num. vet. III. 369). 



Barce in Cyrenaica. — An extremely rare drachm (circ. 

 B.C. 480—431), formerly in the cabinet of the late Mr. Edward 

 Wigan ; obverse, Silphium ; reverse, BAP, Ram's head, in 

 incuse square. 



2. Roman Series : — 



No very remarkable coins of this series have been added to 

 the collection during 1893. 



3. English Series : — 



A particularly interesting series of 238 Anglo-Saxon 

 coins (pennies) struck in Mercia, Kent, Canterbury, East 

 Anglia, and Wessex, thus including the whole of the coin- 

 issuing districts south of the Humber, at the end of the 8th 

 century and the first half of the 9th century. This series 

 comprises many new types of the coinages of the various 

 kings of those districts, as well as a large number of new 

 varieties, and also includes many known types not hitherto 

 represented in the Museum collection. Amongst those which 

 may be specially noted, are 4 coins of Beornwulf, and a similar 

 number of Wiglaf, both kings of Mercia ; 1 coin of Eadberht 

 of Kent ; 9 coins of Wulfred, and 10 coins of Ceolnoth, Arch- 

 bishops of Canterbury, and 8 others struck in that city between 

 the death of Wulfred and the accession of Ceolnoth ; 39 coins 

 of ^thelstan I., king of East Anglia, and a series of 91 coins 

 of Ecgbeorht, king of Wessex, amongst which are two on 

 which he is styled Rex M{erciorum), a title unknown in 

 MSS. These coins mark his conquest of Mercia, in A.D. 829, 

 when Wiglaf was deposed, though restored by Ecgbeorht in 

 the following year. On the reverse of one of these is the 



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