DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 85 



Princess Cleopatra, the daughter of Ptolemy Philometor, 

 King of Egypt. The queen's bust, most characteristically in 

 this particular instance, is placed in front of her husband's. 

 Both portraits are finely rendered. On the reverse is a 

 figure of Zeus Nikephoros enthroned. 



Conimagene. — Mithradates Kallinikos, B.C. 96. A bronze 

 coin. Obverse, Eagle with palm ; Reverse, Palm. 



Phoenicia. — A remarkable archaic silver coin with a 

 man-headed bull on the obverse, and a winged lion on the 

 reverse. 



Gaza in Judaea.— Jnl'm Domna. Reverse, the City-goddess 

 and lo, face to face with hands clasped. Inscrir)tion, FAZA 

 — €IW. 



Parthia. — Mithradates I., a rare drachm with an admirable 

 portrait of the king. 



JSlyina'is in Susiana. — Two unpublished drachms of King 

 Kamnaskires, who reigned about 71 B.C. 



2. Roman Series : — 



Macrinus. — Two rare aurei, types, Jupiter and Felicitas. 



Septimius Severus. — Aureus commemorating the conquest 

 of Syria, 194 A.D. 



Piocletian. — Two aurei of his 3rd and 4th consulships, 

 289 and 290 A.D. 



Maximianus Herculeus, — Two aurei, one representing the 

 emperor in the character of Hercules, the other comme- 

 morating the " Concordia " of Maximian and Diocletian 

 after their eastern campaigns, struck in 303 A.D. 



Croydon Find. — 210 Roman bronze coins of Con- 

 stantius II., Constans, Magnentius, and Constantius Gallus 

 Caesar, selected from a large hoard recently discovered at 

 Croydon. These coins, which must have been buried in 

 351 A.D , were struck at the following mints : Treves, Lyons, 

 Amiens, Aries, Rome, Aquileia, Siscia^ Thessalonica, and 

 Constantinople. They will largely help to determine the 

 sequence of the various issues in the middle of the fourth, 

 century A.D. Presented by the Council of the County 

 Borough of Croydon. 



3. British Series : — 



Anglo-Saxon, — An unpublished gold Triens with the 

 inscription, BIN A- 



Anglo-Saxon. — Ceolwulf I. of Mercia, a penny with 

 moneyer's name, Oba, probably the same man who worked 

 at Canterbury for the Archbishops. This and the following 

 are from the Murdoch Sale. 



English. — William I. Rare pennies of Dover, Stamford, 

 Ilchester, and Lewes. 



