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of tLe Royal Asiatic Society ; the Egypt Exploration Fund ; 

 la Direction du Musee National Hongrois, Biida-Pest ; the 

 Council of the County Borough of Croydon ; His Excellency 

 Phya Suntharatorn Turakit, Governor of Nakon Sri Tam- 

 marat Province, Si am ; Mrs. Annesley ; Howard Payson 

 Arnold, Esq. ; Miss F. L. Baker ; James Berry, Esq. ; Col. 

 J. Biddulph ; Rev. J. H. Bloom ; W. C. Boyd, Esq. ; Arthur 

 Brent, Esq. ; J. Willis Bund, Esq. ; J. B. Caldecott, Esq. ; 

 Philip Carter, Esq. ; J. E. Covernton, Esq. ; Major H. L. 

 Custance ; W. J. Davis, Esq. ; J. Edmonds, Esq. ; Sir John 

 Evans, k.c.b., f.r.s. ; Lieut.-Col. G. S. Eyre ; S. Falk, Esq. ; E. S. 

 Forster, Esq. ; H. A. Grueber, Esq., f.s.a, ; H. R. Hall, Esq. ; 

 Rev. A. W. Handa ; F. W. Hasluck, Esq. ; Richard Hewitt, 

 Esq. ; G. F. Hill, Esq. ; Claud Hollis, Esq. ; Sir Henry H. 

 Howorth, K.C.I.E., F.R.S. ; J. B. Leonard, Esq. ; Col. W. J. 

 Massy ; Rev. Robert Paul ; A. W. Pratt, Esq. ; Sir Augustus 

 Prevost, Bart. ; John E. Pritchard, Esq. ; Mr. A. P. Ready ; 

 Horace Sandars, Esq. ; A. Sangorski, Esq. ; Rev. H. R. Scott ; 

 R. Sewell, Esq.; Col. C. E. Shepherd; H. Southam, Esq.; 

 Hugh Stannus, Esq. ; F. L. Stephenson, Esq. ; Sefior Barao 

 de Studart ; W. S. Talbot, Esq. ; Framjee Tamasjee Thanawala, 

 Esq.; Oldfield Thomas, Esq.. F.R.S. ; R. C. Thompson, Esq. ; 

 H. E. Wakefield, Esq. : Percy H. Webb, Esq. ; Rev. C. H. H. 

 Wright, D.D. ; Allan Wyon, Esq., f.s.a. 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 



1. Greek Series : — 

 {a.) Europe : — 



Entella in Sicily. — A very rare silver litra of the fourth 

 century B.C., f ormerl}'- in the North wick and Fox Collections. 



Perinthus in Thrace. — A very fine large brass coin of 

 Hadrian. Reverse, Roma standing. 



Topirus in Thrace. — A bronze coin of M. Aurelius Caesar. 

 Reverse, River-god, Nestos ? recumbent. 



Thrace, Rhoemetalces I, 11 B.C. -12 a.d. — A bronze coin 

 bearing portraits of Rhoemetalces and his Queen, jugate, with 

 a small head, apparently feminine, between them. 



Istrus, Moesiae Inferioris. — An obol of great rarity and 

 perhaps unique, of the fourth century B.C. The obverse type 

 shows two heads united, in opposite directions, upwards and 

 downwards, possibly those of the rising and setting Sun. 



Panticapaeum in the Tauric Chersonesus. — A bronze 

 coin of a new type. Obverse, Head of Apollo ; reverse, Bow 

 and Quiver. 



Delphi in Phocis. — Two silver coins of tlie early part of 

 the fifth century B.C., with the o^^aXoc yj??, (a circle with a 

 point in the centre,) on the reverse, and on the obverse, 

 a ram's head, and a man's head wearing an archer's cap, 

 respectively. 



