90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 



Phoenicia and Palestine. — 369 specimens from the col- 

 lection formed by the late Rev. H. C. Reichardt, for many 

 years resident at Damascus. The selection consists of coins 

 of Heliopolis (Baal-bek), Caesarea Paneas, Gerasa. Aradus, 

 Berytus, Byblus, Sidon, Tyre, Tripolis, Judaea, (John Hyr- 

 canus, Judas Aristobulus, Alexander Jannaeus, Herod the 

 Great, and M. Agrippa), Jerusalem, Ascalon, Gaza, Bostra in 

 Arabia, &c. 



Parthia. — A unique coin of Tiridates I with the title 



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Parthia. — Four tetradrachms of Phraates II, B.C. 138-128, 

 and one of Tiridates II, B.C. 32-2G. These scarce pieces bear 

 interesting portraits, and are in perfect condition. The coin 

 of Tiridates has on the reverse a figure of the Tyche of a 

 Greek city presenting a palm to the Parthian monarch, and 

 is a new variety. 



Parthia. — A series of 77 silver and 27 bronze coins of the 

 Parthian and Sub-Parthian classes, comprising well preserved 

 drachms of the earlier Arsacidae, B.C. 248-210, and rare obols 

 of Tiridates I and Orodes I. The tetradrachms (circ. a.d. 

 30-209) are in remarkably good preservation, and are in- 

 scribed ^vith the years and months of their issue, which are 

 of great use in settling the doubtful chronology of the 

 Arsacid period. In the Suh-Parthian class are 12 silver 

 coins of Persis with Pehlvi inscriptions and the Fire-altar 

 characteristic of Persian money. 



Egypt, — A rare silver coin (wt. 137 grs.) of Berenice II, 

 Queen of Cyrenaica and wife of Ptolemy Euergetes, b c. 



247-222. 



Carthage. — ^A very fine tetradrachm of the fifth century B.C. 



2. Roman Series : — 



Capua. — An unpublished large bronze coin, B.C. 268-211, 

 of which the types and style prove the Capuan origin of a 

 series of silver didrachms inscribed ROMA- 



Imperial. — Six unusually fine bronze pieces of Nero 

 (closing of the Temple of Janus), Germanicus, Galba, Hadrian 

 and Sabina, Antoninus Pius, and Julian II and Helena, in 

 the characters of Sarapis and Isis. 



A gold coin of Carus referring to the conquests of Sar- 

 matia and Persia in A.D. 282. 



An aureus of Maximianus Herculeus A.D. 286-305, corre- 

 sponding in type with a similar issue of his colleague Dio- 

 cletian. It was struck at Tarraco in Spain, circ. A.D. 290, 

 before the reform of the coinage, which took place shortly 

 afterwards. 



