DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 87 



Head, Esq., d.c.l., Ph.D. ; G. F. Hill, Esq. ; Herbert Hill, 

 Esq. ; S. C. Hill, Esq. ; Herr Frits von Holm ; Sir H. H. 

 Howorth, K.C.I. E., F.R.S. ; J. B. Hue, Esq. ; Reginald Huth, 

 Esq. ; C. P. Hyman, Esq. ; A. J. Lawson, Esq. ; Daniel 

 Mayer, Esq. ; H. Parker, Esq. ; Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart. ; 

 H. A. Ramsden, Esq. ; R. Sewell, Esq. ; C. L. Stainer, Esq, ; 

 C. H. Stigand, Esq. ; L. Stuart, Esq. ; E. L. Vaughan, Esq. ; 

 Sir Hermann Weber, m.d. ; Col. Worthington Wilmer. 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 



1. Greek Series : — 



{a.) Europe : — 



Gallia or Pannonia. — A. barbarous imitation of the 

 tetradrachm of Philip II. of Macedon with various letters 

 and symbols on the reverse. 



Oloijhyxus in Macedon. — A unique bronze coin dating 

 from about the middle of the fourth century B.C. Olophyxus 

 was a small town near the summit of Mt. Athos. It is 

 mentioned by Herodotus (VII. 22), by Strabo (VII. 35 and 

 38), and others. Its name also occurs in the Athenian 

 Tribute Lists, but it was not previously known to have struck 

 coins. 



Tkessaly. — A silver coin of the Thessalian League, 19G-146 

 B.C., struck soon after Thessal}^ had been proclaimed free by 

 Flamininus. It bears the name of the Strategos of the 

 League and a figure of the Thessalian Athena Itonis in 

 fighting attitude. 



Molossi in Epirus. — An extremely rare silver coin of the 

 tribe which was predominant in Epirus before Alexander 

 the son of Neoptolemus became king in 342 B.C. On the 

 obverse is one of the famous breed of Molossian dogs, (cf. 

 Horace, Sat. II. 6, 111), and on the reverse the thunderbolt 

 of the Dodonaean Zeus. 



Eiiboea (?). — A silver stater of the 7th (?) century B.C. 

 Obverse, Astragalus ; Reverse, rough incuse square diagonally 

 divided. This coin is attributed by Beule (p. 19) to Athens, 

 and by Head {Hist. Num. p. 309) to Euboea. 



Presented by Sir H. Weber, M.D. 



Athens. — 38 bronze coins of the age of the Antonines, 

 when Athens was no longer authorised by Rome to strike 

 silver money. The special interest of the Athenian coins of 

 this period lies in the fact that the subjects represented upon 

 them are, for the most part, copies of statues mentioned by 

 Pausanias and others as famous works of art at Athens in 



