82 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Alexander the Great. — A series of Asiatic tetradrachms 

 and drachms acquired at Thyatira, Magnesia in Lydia, and 

 Smyrna. 



Ahdera in Thraee. — A fifth century hemidrachm. Obverse, 

 a running Gryphon ; reverse, Bull's head and name of chief 

 magistrate KAEAN. 



Apollonia Pontica in Thrace. — A very rare small bronze 

 coin of the 4th cent. B.C. Obverse, Head of Apollo ; reverse. 

 Anchor and Crayfish. The coin is interesting on account of 

 its inscription AIXAAKIH indicating its current value at full 

 length. 



Larissa in Thessaly. — A fifth century obol. Obverse, Free 

 horse ; reverse, the nymph Larissa seated on a large hydria 

 and playing ball with hand and foot. 



Phalanna in Thessaly. — A fine bronze coin, circ. B.C. 850. 

 Obverse, Young male head ; reverse, Head of nymph with 

 hair confined in saccos. 



Scotussa in Thessaly. — A bronze coin of fine style and 

 unpublished types. Obverse, Head of young Herakles; 

 reverse, Vine-branch with grapes. 



Haliartus in Boeotia. — A hemiobol, the only one known, 

 of the early part of the 4th cent. B.C. Obverse, a half-shield 

 of Boeotian form ; reverse, a trident, referring to the temple 

 of Poseidon at Onchestus in the territory of Haliartus, which 

 was the place of meeting of the Amphictyonic Council of the 

 Boeotians. (Strab. ix. 2, 23.) 



Euboea. — A silver stater of extreme rarity, struck about 

 411 B.C., when Euboea became independent of Athens. The 

 only other known specimen of this coin formed part of the 

 Photiades Collection, sold in Paris in 1870. 



Eretria in Euboea. — A very rare bronze coin of the reign 

 of Commodus; reverse, a bust presenting three faces, one 

 female and two male, probably referring to the joint worship 

 of Demeter and the two Cabiri {see Daremberg and Saglio, 

 p. 767). 



Athens. — Two drachms new to the Museum, one, B.C. 196- 

 187 (Series xxii.), with magistrates' names AHMH — lEPH; 

 the other, circ. B.C. 160 (Series xL), with EYPYKAEI— 

 APIAPA. 



Athens. — A tetradrachm struck shortly after the siege and 

 capture of the city by Sulla, in 86 B.C., when the civic 

 magistrates were no longer allowed to sign the coinage which 

 was then issued in the name of the people of Athens 

 (A0E O AEM021), with a statue of Harmodius as an 

 appropriate symbol beside the owl on the reverse. This 

 remarkable issue seems to have been a final assertion on the 

 part of Athens of her ancient autonomy, of which she was to 

 be forthwith summarily deprived by her conqueror. The 

 present specimen is one of three discovered in 1883 at 

 Carystus in Euboea. {Zeit. f. Num. xii. 102.) 



