90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Two tetradrachms of Ephesus of the fourth century B.c.y 

 bearing the signatures of two new Prytaneis, Diotimidas and 

 Simalion. 



Five cistophori of Ephesus, selected from a recent find 

 of 30 of these coins (B.C. 200-133 and later), struck at Per- 

 gamum, Ephesus, Tralles, and Apameia. 



A bronze coin of Magnesia. Obv. Bust of Artemis ; rev. 

 Horseman. This piece is contemporary with the beautiful 

 tetradrachms struck at Magnesia after the defeat of Antiochus, 

 B.C. 190. 



Lydia. — A bronze coin of Severus Alexander, struck at 

 Nysa. Rev. City-goddess holding grapes and a cultus-statue 

 of the god Men. This coin bears the name of a magistrate 

 Aurelius Ammianus, with the title " Grammateus." 



A quasi-autonomous coin of the Lydian Stratoniceia, dating 

 from the time of Trajan, with the inscription on the rev. 

 0€A PHMH INAineAIATHN. The origin of the name 

 Indipediatae, as distinctive of this city, is not explained. {See 

 B. M. C. Lydia, p. cxvi.) 



Phrygia. — A rare bronze coin of the city of Synnada, 

 struck in the reign of Gallienus. 



Presented hy B. V. Head, Esq., d.c.l., ph.d. 



Seventeen bronze coins of the cities of Apameia, Cadi, 

 Colossae, Cotiaeum, Hierapolis, Laodiceia, Lysias, Philomelium, 

 and Temenothyrae. 



Cilicia. — A very rare quasi-autonomous bronze coin, 

 struck at the city of Cestrus in Imperial times. Ohv. Bearded 

 head surmounted by modius ; rev. KEZTPHNWN star 

 within a crescent. Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq. 



Five satrapal tetradrachms of the " Lion type," belonging 

 to the age of Alexander the Great. 



Presented by Sir Henry H. Howorth, k.c.i.e., f.b,.s. 



Cyprus. — An unpublished bronze coin of King Eua- 

 goras II., 368-351 B.C., with a head of Aphrodite, facing, on 

 the obv., and EYA and a mare and foal on the rev. 



Presented by W. G. Boyd, Esq. 



Babylon. — A tetradrachm of Tarsian type, but of the 

 Attic standard, belonging to the class attributed by Imhoof- 

 Blumer to one of the governors of Babylon under Alexander 

 the Great. 



Syria and Bactria. — Twenty six specimens from a hoard 

 of coins discovered near Koh-i-Taftan in the province of 

 Kerman (the ancient Caramania) in Persian Baluchistan, 

 comprising some interesting native imitations current among' 

 the wild tribes of Baluchistan in the second and first 

 centuries B.C. 



