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ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Bank Collection. 



Class. 



Gold 



and 



Electrum. 



Silver. 



Copper. 



BiUon. 



Lead 



and White 



Metal. 



Total. 



Greek - - - - - 



97 



426 



529 



3 



^ 



1,055 



Roman - - - - - 



136 



566 



151 



- 



- 



853 



English - - - - - 



81 



675 



293 



- 



246 



1,195 



Mediaeval and Modern 



155 



785 



44 



11 



1 



996 



Oriental - - - - - 



48 



81 



5 



- 



- 



134 



Total - - - 



517 



2,433 



1,022 



14 



247 



4,233 



Note. — The numbers in this Table are Included in the General Table of Acquisitions for the year, p. 23. 



The following coins are the most interesting and rare in this splendid donation : — 

 a. Greek Series : — 



Two octadrachms of Abdera, and six tetradrachms of the same town, bearing on the 

 reverse types such as Hermes, Dionysus, a dancing girl, &c. 

 A gold coin of M aronea. 



A tetradrachm of Kersibaulos, King of Thrace, with the types of Alexander the Great. 



A tetradrachm, struck by the people of Thrace, on the occasion of some national 

 deliverance in the 2nd or 1st century B.C. 



A very fine tetradrachm of Amphipolis ; type, head of Apollo facing. 



Five silver coins of Mende, among them a tetradrachm, representing Silenus on his 

 ass. 



A remarkable early stater of Terone. 



A fine octadrachm of the Orreskii, representing a man driving two oxen. 



A stater of an uncertain town (Perne ?) or tribe in Macedonia, type a centaur carrying 

 off a nymph. 



Two octadrachms of Alexander I. of Macedonia, bearing his name. 



Stater of Perdiccas III. of Macedonia ; the only one known of this king. 



An octadrachm of Lysimachus in gold. 



A gold coin of Demetrius Poliorcetes with portrait. 



Avery fine coin of Lamia in Thessaly ; types, horned female head, reverse, Herakles 

 eeated ; one of two known. 



A splendid gold stater of Alexander of Epirus ; the finest known. 



A fine gold stater of Aetolia. 



An interesting coin of Elis, with the head of the nymph Olympia. 



Four silver staters af Argos. 



A rare coin ot Phaestus in Crete, with the type of the young Zeus and the legend 

 EEAXANOS. 



Silver coins of Andros, Melos, and Tenos. 



A drachm of Chalcedon with the types of Lysimachus ; supposed to be unique. 



Fine staters of Timotheus and Dionysius, dynasts of Heraclea in Bithynia. 



A very rare drachm of Nicomedes I., King of Bithynia. 



A gold stater of Lampsacus ; type, Nike raising a trophy ; very fine. 



A very well-preserved archaic coin of Methymna in Lesbos; type, boar. 



Two extremely fine didrachms King of Mytilene. 



Two unique gold coins of Miletus, one with the head of Apollo facing the other, with 

 the head turned to right. 



An archaic stater of Astyra in Rhodes. 



An early didrachm of Tlos in Lycia ; type, lion seated, and seven other early staters of 

 the same district. 



A beautiful and unique stater of Paphos in Cyprus ; types, head of Aphrodite, dove. 



A silver coin of Nicocles, King of Cyprus. 



A gold stater of Seleucus I., King of Syria, with types of Alexander the Great; and a 

 gold octadrachm of Antioohus TIL 



A tetradrachm of Alexander I., King of Syria; reverse type, Pallas; supposed to be 

 unique. 



A Persian double daric. 



Eleven gold octadrachms of the Ptolemies, including one of Arsinoe III., two of 



Ptolemy III., one of Ptolemy IV., and one of Ptolemy V. 



Three early electrum staters, one probably of the end of the 8th century B.C., struck at 

 Ephesus, and bearing a remarkable inscription, the earliest in the Greek language. See 

 Num. Chron. N.S. x. 237 and xv. pi. vii. 4. The other two are of Chios and Thasos 

 respectively ; two very early half-staters, and many of smaller size. 



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