DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 91 



Abyssinia. — A gold coin of one of the Kings of Axam, 

 with an inscription in Graeco-Coptic characters. 



Presented by M. Ali Far ah, of Aden. 



2. Roman Series : — 



One hundred and eighty-nine denarii of the Repubh'can 

 and early Imperial periods, including some rarities struck at 

 the local mints soon after 268 B.C., with others issued during 

 the campaigns of Julius Caesar in Gaul, and during the 

 contest between Brutus and Antony, some of them important 

 for fixing the date of the Imperatorships of Antony and 

 Octavius. 



Eighty-five bronze coins of the period of the Republic. 



An As of the Saufeia gens. 



Presented by Frederick A. Harrison, Esq. 



A bronze coin of Constantine the Great, as Caesar, 306 A.D., 

 struck in Britain. Presented by W. G. Boyd, Esq. 



A scarce contorniate with, on the obv., a head of Nero, 

 and on the rev. a horseman attacking an enemy with his 

 spear. 



In the later Roman and Byzantine series the acquisitions 

 have been exceptionally numerous and important, many 

 hundreds of coins having been added to the collection in 

 gold, silver, and bronze. Only a small number of these 

 acquisitions can be referred to here, but they will find 

 their place in the Catalogue of Byzantine Coins now in 

 preparation. 



A solidus of Pulcheria, wife of the Emperor Marcianus 

 (414-453 A.D.). 



A rare solidus of Basiliscus (476-477 A.D.), bearing his 

 own name and that of his son Marcus. 



A tremissis, which has been attributed to Vitalian, the 

 rival of Anastasius I. (491-518 A.D.), but which is more 

 probably a barbarous copy of a coin of Justin I., or of one 

 of his successors. 



A well preserved series of the small silver coins struck in 

 Italy in the name of Justin T. 



Four solidi struck during the brief joint rule (four months 

 in 527 A.D.) of Justin I. and his nephew Justinian I. 



A solidus of Justinian I. (527-565 a.d.) with the rare 

 reverse type. Victory holding a globe surmounted by the 

 Christian monogram. 



An extensive series of the bronze coins of Justinian I., 

 including a fine half-follis with his head in profile, struck 

 at Rome. 



A bronze foUis of Justinian L, with a ring, evidently 

 attached to it in antiquity, struck at Antioch, a.nd found in 

 a tomb on the site of Sycaminum in Palestine. 



Presented by Col. W. J. Massy. 



