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A small gold coin of Crete, s^liewirig a flying Eagle on "both sides and the inscriptions 

 I\ and AAE/SANAPOY, probably struck at the town of Lisus in the western | art of the 

 island. The gold coins of this class are excessively rare. 



A drachm of Siphnos belonging to tlie 4th century B.C., a period of which there were 

 previously no silver coins of this island in the Museum. 



Three rare staters of the kings of Bosporus, Sauromates I (gold), dated a.d. 97, 

 bearing a well executed portrait of the King ; Eupator (gold), a.d. 155 : and 

 Sauromates 11. (electrum), a,R. 211. 



A silver stater of Abydus in the Troad with a remarkably fine head of Apollo on the 

 obverse, belonging to a period, circ. B.C. 400, hitherto unrepresented in the series of 

 the coins of Abydus. 



A very beautiful drachm of Gargara in Mysia, of the finest period of ait. 



A tetradrachm of Antioch in Caria, circ. B.C. 280-200, of great rarity. 



A bronze coin of Hierapolis in Phrygia bearing the name of tlie Proconsul Fabius 

 Maximus, B.C. 5. 



A bronze coin of Perga in Pam])hylia of the Emperor Tacitus, a.d. 275-276, with 

 the curious inscription TAKITI02 MHTPOnOAlTFOS nEPFAIflN, probably referring 

 to public games temporarily called " Metropolitan Tacitian," in honour of 'lacitus. 



A tetradrachm of Antiochus IX of Syria with the figure of Tyche, Fortune, on the 

 reverse ; a type hitherto known only on small coins o( this king. 



A bronze coin of the allied cities of Antioch, Seleucin, Apamea, and Laodicei;, with 

 the legend AAEA^QN AHMON, of a new and unpublished type. 



A tetradrachm of Antiochus II discovered in Bokhara, bearing the rare type of a 

 horse's head, an interesting example of a Bactrian mintage of a Seleucid king. 



A very fine specimen and the tliird example known of the Jewish shekel of the 5th 

 year of Simon Maccabseus. 



A unique and highly interesting decadrachm struck in Bactria, probably either by 

 Eucratides or Heliocles in commemoration of some victory over Scythians or Indians. 

 On the obverse is a Macedonian horseman attacking with his spear two Barbarians 

 mounted on the back of a retreating elephant, and on the reverse is the standing figure 

 of an firmed king holding in his right hand the thunderbolt of Zeus, (ii-ee Gardner in 

 J^vm. Lhroii. 1887, p. 177.) Presented by A. W. Franks, Esq., F.R.S. 



Two very beautiful drachms of Eucratides and a unique bronze coin of Antimachus I., 

 Kings of Bactria. 



A fine unpublished diurachm bearing the heads of Strato and Agathocleia, a Greek 

 King and Queen of N. W. India, of whom no good portraits were previously known. 



Fourteen silver didrachms of other Greek Kings of India, Diomedes, Strato I, Philox- 

 enus, and Heruiaeus, all in very fine condition and including as many as seven unpub- 

 lished varieties. 



Three coins of Otho and three of the Empress Sabina, struck at Alexandria. 



2. Boman Series: — 



A rare aureus of the Emperor Hostilian. 



A solidus of Constans I. 



23 Roman denarii and two silver medallions selected fromtne recent find made at East 

 Harptree, and struck by the following Emperors : — Constantine the Great (1), Constantine 

 II (1 medallion and two denarii), Decentius (1 medallion) Julian II (7), Valentinian 

 I (10), Valens (2), and Gratian(l). F resented by Mrs. liettlewell, of Harptree Court, 

 East Harptree. 



3. English Series: — 



A penny of Aethelred II, struck at Leicester. Presented by A. W. Franlts, Esq., 

 F.R.S. 



An electrotype of the large gold Blake medal awarded for victories over the Dutch 

 in 1653, taken from the specimen given to Admiral Penn, and now in the possession of 

 his descendant Colonel W. Stuart. Presented by Jonathan Rashlcyh, Esq. 



A seventeenth century token of St Mary Cray, Kent. Presmted by Herbert A. 

 Grueber Esq., F.S.A. 



A bronze medal commemorating tlie visit of the Colonial and Indian Kepresentatives to 

 the City of London on the 25th June 1886. Presented by the Corporation of the City of 

 London. 



4. MedicBVat and Modern Series : — 



Eight silver Merovingian coins of Marseilles; athaler of Leopold, Archduke of Austria, 

 1632 ; a silver Jubilee Medal of Pope Benedict XIV ; a lead medal of Nicolo d'Este, 

 and a lead medal of an Ecclesiastic of the Cathedral of Mainz, 1549. Presented by A. fV. 

 Franks, Esq.,. F.R.S 



_ 42 small silver and base silver coins of Denmark, chiefly of Kings of the Estrithsen 

 line, some of them of considerable rarity. 



A gold 10 ducat piece of Magdeburg struck during the last quarter of the 16th cen- 

 tury. 



A two Real piece of Charles IV of Spain, struck for Nicaragua. Presented by Samuel 

 Smith, Esq., Junior, 



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