DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 83 



the year B.C. 411, when Thasos revolted from Athens. Only- 

 two other specimens are known, one of which is in the 

 Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris, and the other in the Royal 

 Oolleetion at Berlin. 



Thrace (?). — Two gold double staters, bearing the name of 

 Philip of Macedon, These coins come from a hoard discovered 

 some years ago in the neighbourhood of Constantinople. 

 They are unmistakably of barbarous work, and were probably 

 struck by one of the Gaulish or Thracian chiefs, who made 

 yearly raids upon the territory of Byzantium in the early 

 part of the third century B.C., and who exacted an annual 

 tribute from that city ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 gold 

 staters. 



How.oliurti in Thessaly. — A bronze coin of the fourth cen- 

 tury B.C. Obverse, Head of bearded hero ((Philoktetes ?) wearing 

 conical pileus ; reverse, OMOA, Coiled serpent. The coins of 

 this town, which was situate near the vale of Tempe in 

 Thessaly, are of extreme rarity. 



Larissa in Thessaly. — A silver drachm, struck between 

 B.C. 400 and 344. On the obverse is a fine head to the front 

 of the Nymph Larissa, and on the reverse a man holding 

 a horse ; a type new to the Museum. This coin was formerly 

 in the famous Photiades collection. 



Meliboea in Thessaly. — A silver quarter- drachm of great 

 beauty, B.C. 400 — 344. Obverse, Head of Nymph facing, 

 crowned with grapes and ivy : — reverse, MEAIBOE, Vine- 

 branch. This is the only silver coin of Meliboea at present 

 known. 



Methydrium in , Thessaly. — A fourth century bronze coin. 

 Obverse, Female head ; reverse, MEBYAPEmN (?), Nike hold- 

 ing two wreaths. This is the first specimen in bronze which 

 has been found. From Steph. Byzantinus, the only ancient 

 writer who mentions the town, the form of the ethnic 

 ME9YAPIEQN might be expected, as he gives MtOvdpievg as 

 the ethnic of another town of the same name in Arcadia. 



Peloponnesus. Achaean League. - Seven silver coins of 

 the third and second centuries B.C., bearing the mint-marks of 

 the towns of Patrae, Antigoneia (Mantineia), Pallantium, and 

 Elis. 



Hyrtacina and Lisus in Crete. — A small gold coin bear- 

 ing identical types on the two sides, viz., a flying Dove. On 

 one side is the letter Y, and on the other A, the initials of the 

 names of the two allied cities (cf. Svoronos, Num. de la Crete 

 ancienne. PI. xviii. 16). 



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