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Delos.— -A. drachm dating from the latter part of the fourth 

 century B.C. of a type hitherto unknown. Obverse, Head of 

 Apollo ; reverse, A — H Swan flying over palm tree. The 

 tree is the sacred palm of Delos, beneath which Leto gave 

 birth to Apollo and Artemis. The swan is an Apolline 

 symbol. 



(6.) Asia : — 



Calchedon in Bithynia. — A well-preserved tetradrachm of 

 the second half of the fourth century B.C. 



Cyzicus in Mysia. — Philip I. A bronze coin. Reverse, 

 Tyche and the name of the Strategos, Aurelius Verus 

 Agathemeros. 



Lampsaeus in Mysia. — A fine and very rare tetradrachm 

 (early second century B.C.). Obverse, Head of Priapos 

 crowned with ivy ; reverse, Apollo Kitharoedos with a small 

 figure of Hekate carrying two torches. 



Cyme in Ae-olis. — A very fine and rare tetrobol of the 

 Persian Satrap Spithridates, circ. B.C. 334, with his portrait 

 in the Persian Satrapal tiara on the obverse, and the fore- 

 part of a horse, the badge of the city of Cyme in Aeolis, on 

 the reverse. 



Ephesus in Ionia. — A tetradrachm bearing the name of a 

 Prytanis, KAEITOPIOZ, B.C. 387-295, new to the series of 

 Ephesian coins. 



Ephesus in Ionia. — A Cistophorus bearing a date not 

 previously known on this series; year 11 of the Province of 

 Asia =r B.C. 123. 



Aphrodisias in Caria. — A coin struck in the name of the 

 High Priest Flavins Myon, bearing within a wreath the 

 inscription EniMEAH0ENTOZ <!>AAB!OY NYWNOX 

 APXSEPECOS. 



Glannudda in Lydia.—A bronze coin of the second century 

 B.C. Clannudda was a Seleucid stronghold on the slope of 

 the Kyshla Dagh. Its coins are of great rarity. 



Daldis in Lydia.- — Tranquillina. Reverse, the cultus-idol 

 of the Lydian Virgin goddess. 



Dioshieron in Lydia. — Two bronze coins of the age of 

 the Antonines, with figures of the river Cayster on the 

 reverses, important as evidences of the site of Dioshieron, 

 which has been identified with the modern Birghi. It was 

 probably in Roman times the administrative centre of the 

 Upper Cayster valley. 



