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The donations are chiefly due to the generosity of the 

 following persons, institutions, &c. : — 



The Government of the N.W. Provinces and Oudh ; the 

 Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society ; the Society 

 for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, through W. R. Paton, 

 Esq. ; the Administration des Monnaies et Medailles, Paris ; 

 the Committee of Lloyds ; the British South African Co. ; the 

 Hon. Algernon Bourke ; W. C. Boyd, Esq. ; Major-Gen. M. G. 

 Clerk ; W. J. Davis, Esq. ; Arthur Denman, E-q. ; Rev. 

 Arthur Dixon ; Sir John Evans, k.c.b, ; Sir A. Wollaston 

 Franks, K.C.B. (bequest) ; Miss Olive Garnett ; H. A. Grueber, 

 Esq.; Capt. W. Haig ; S. H. Hamer, Esq. ; Capt. J. L. Harring- 

 ton ; F. W. Hasluck, Esq. ; B. V. Head, Esq. ; W. Henry, Esq. ; 

 G. F. Hill, Esq. ; Mrs. Hodgson ; L. A. Lawrence, Esq. ; A. J. 

 Lawson, Esq. ; Herr Julius Meili ; A. H. Pawson, Esq. ; R. A. 

 Peddie, Esq. ; John E. Pritchard, Esq. ; Miss Kate Radford ; 

 Mr. A. P. Ready ; Mr. W. T. Ready ; J. E. Sansom, Esq. ; 

 W. L. Sclater, Esq. ; Cecil Smith, Esq. ; Samuel Smith, Esq., 

 Jun. ; S. van Straalen, Esq. ; W. Tonge, Esq. ; W. G. Wallace, 

 Esq. ; H. B. Walters, Esq. ; W. R. G. Wollen, Esq., R.E. ; 

 H. Nelson Wright, Esq. ; Allan Wyon, Esq. 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 



1. Greek Series : — 



(a.) Europe : — 



Syracuse in Sicily. — An extremely rare and very beautiful 

 tetradrachm, an exact reproduction on a reduced scale of the 

 famous decadrachm by Euainetos. (From the Garfrae 

 Collection.) 



Capsa in Chalcidice. — An archaic tetrobol. The city of 

 Capsa north of Mende, on the Thermaic gulf, is mentioned by 

 Herodotus (vii, 123). Its coins are of great rarity, and have 

 been only recently identified. 



Potidaea in Chalcidice.— A very remarkable tetrobol of 

 the early part of the fifth century ; obverse, Poseidon Hippios 

 on horseback. 



Philip II of Macedon, B.C. 359-336. — A rare tetrobol with 

 a youthful head bound with a taenia on the obverse, and a 

 prancing horseman on the reverse. The mint-mark, the 

 head of the river-god Acheloos, shows that the coin was 

 struck at Ambracia. 



Alexander the Great, B.C. 336-323. — A remarkably fine and 

 unpublished tetradrachm belonging to the class attributed to 

 Peloponnesus. 



