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stater was probably struck between B.C. 190 and 166, and it 

 serves to show how active was the commercial intercourse 

 between Khodes and Byzantium. It is recorded that Rhodes 

 always made a point of asserting the right of free access for 

 her trading vessels to the ports of the Euxine Sea without 

 payment of dues to the city of Byzantium on passing through 

 the Bosphorus. 



Rhodes. — Ahalf-stater in gold, B.C. 189-166. Obverse, Head 

 of Helios facing ; reverse, P — O Rose in incuse square, signed 

 ANTAIOZ. No other specimen of this denomination has 

 been published. 



Phaselis in Lycia. --An archaic silver stater struck in the 

 6th century B.C. Obverse, Prow of galley fashioned like the 

 forepart of a boar. Presented by Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart. 



Side in Panvphylia. — A silver stater of the 4th century B.C. 

 Obverse, Athena standing; reverse, Nude figure sacrificing. 

 Legends in characters resembling the Aramaic. Side was 

 originally a Greek city, but the native element in the popu- 

 lation little by little overwhelmed the Hellenic, and the 

 Pamphylian language and alphabet had supplanted the 

 Greek before the time of Alexander the Great. 



Syria. — Antiochus III., the Great, B.C. 222-187. An 

 interesting tetradrachm figured in Num. Chron. 1883, PI. 

 V. 8. Presented by Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart. 



Syria. — Alexander II., Zebina, B.C. 128-123. A unique 

 gold stater of very fine work. Obverse, Portrait of the king ; 

 reverse, BAZIAEHZ AAEZANAPOY 0EOY Eni<l>ANOY5: 



NIKH4>OPOY, Zeus enthroned to left, holding Nike and 

 resting on lotus-headed sceptre. This splendid gold piece 

 is of great value, both historical and numismatic, for it 

 represents the statue of Zeus in the temple of Antioch, 

 holding the golden Victory which Alexander Zebina, when 

 hard pressed for funds, melted down to coin into money for 

 the payment of his army, " Jovis solidum ex auro signum 

 Victoriae tolli jubet " (Justin, xxxix. 2, 2). 



>S'2/Ha.— Seleucus II., Kallinikos, B.C. 246-226. A gold 

 stater of very great rarity with a portrait of the king on the 

 obverse. 



Egypt. — Ptolemy I., Soter, B.C. 323-284. A very beautiful 

 gold pentadrachm, weighing 275 grains, with a fine portrait 

 of the king. Presented by Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart. 



Gyrene. — A very fine gold stater struck between B.C. 431 

 and 321, with a representation of a quadriga driven by Nike 

 and seen from the front, an extremely rare type. On the 

 reverse is Zeus Ammon enthroned, and a magistrate's name in 

 the genitive case, lAZONOZ. 



