DEPARTMENT OF COINS ANP MEDALS. 9? 



A very fine obol of Naxos. Obv. Head of Dionysos ; rev. 

 Bunch of grapes and vine-leaves. 



A rare archaic obol of Syracuse with a bearded head on 

 the obverse. 



Mcesia Inferior. — A silver coin of the town of Callatia. 

 Obv. Head of Artemis ; rev. A mounted archer. This coin is 

 of an earlier date than any coins of Callatia hitherto 

 published. 



Four silver drachms of the city of Istrus on the Euxine 

 Sea, near the mouths of the Danube. These coins belong to 

 the later half of the 5th or to the earlier half of the 4th 

 cent. B.C. Their types, heads, upwards and downwards, of a 

 divinity, resemblinfy the head of Helios on Rhodian coins, 

 have been hitherto explained as those of the Dioscuri. 

 Dr. Head is, however, inclined to think that they are simply 

 symbolical of the rising and the setting sun. 



Sarmatia. — An interesting collection of coins of the 

 Greek cities Olbia and Tyra in Sarmatia (S. Russia), 

 comprising, with other rarities, an unique silver coin of 

 Olbia. This collection also contains at least 8 specimens of 

 the large bronze pieces of Olbia, remarkable as being the 

 only Greek coins which were, not struck, but cast in moulds, 

 like the Roman Acs grave. The most remarkable of these 

 cast coins is one in the shape of a dolphin, nearly 4 inches in 

 length. 



Tauric Chersonesos. — A bronze coin of Cercine, a city of 

 which the Museum had previously no coins. 



Four silver coins of Panticapceum and two rare bronze 

 coins probably of the same town, the obverse types of which 

 are respectively a Satrap's head and the satrapal leather 

 helmet. 



Thrace. — Four silver diobols of the city of Apollonia on 

 the Euxine, struck in the 4th century B.C. Obv. Head of 

 Apollo, facing ; rev. Anchor and cray-fish with abbreviated 

 magistrates' names. 



A silver stater of the ^ginetic standard of the city of 

 Abdera, dating from about 400 B.C. Obv. A rearing gryphon 

 of remarkably fine style; rev. [AIJONYSAZ, the name of 

 the eponymous magistrate : type, Head of bearded Dionysos 

 crowned with ivy. This device was evidently chosen by the 

 chief magistrate with especial reference to his personal 

 name. 



A bronze coin of considerable rarity of Sadales, King of 

 a part of Thrace in the 1st century B.C. 



A bronze " medallion " of Elagabalus, struck at Philippo- 

 polis on the occasion of a festival called KENAPEICEIA 

 TTY0IA. The reverse shows a view in perspective of an 

 octastyle temple. 



