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ACCOUNTS, ScC, OF THE ItRlTISH MUSEUM. 







II. — Acquisitions, 



1888. 









Class. 



Gold 



and 



Electrum. 



Silver. 



Copper. 



Billon. 



Lead, Nickel, 



White Metal, 



&c. 



Porcelain 



and 



Glass. 



TOTAI- 



Greek - - - - 



10 



217 



228 



_ 



_ 



_ 



455 



Roman . . - 



3 



4 



1 



- 



- 



- 



8 



Mediaeval and Modern - 



11 



28 



33 



43 



1 



- 



116 



Englisli ... 



2 



15 



20 



3 



1 



- 



41 



Oriental ... 



16 



96 



56 



- 



17 



118 



303 



Total . - - 



42 



360 



338 



46 



19 



118 



923 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 



1. Greek Series i- 



I ' A very beautiful tetradrachm of Amphipolis in Macedon of the finest period of art ; 

 obverse. Head of Apollo laureate, facing ; symbol, crab. 



A rare silver coin of Panticapaeum of the fourtli century B.C. ; obverse, Head of Pan; 

 reverse. Lion seated. 



An extremely rare bronze coin of the fourth century B.C. of Mopsium in Thessaly ; 

 obverse, a very fine bearded Head of Zeus, facing ; reverse, the Lapith Mopsus contending 

 with a Centaur. The town of Mopsium was previously unrepresented in the British 

 Museum collection, and only one other specimen of this coin is known. (Monatsbericht 

 der k. Akad. der Wissensch. Berlin, 1878, PI. I. 11.) 



An obol of the fifth century B.C., of Same in Cephallenia ; obverse. Head of Kephalos ; 

 reverse, The hound Lailaps. 



A drachm of the island of Melos ; reverse, MAAIiiN AEglKPATHS, Fruit (ju^Xov), 

 third century B.C., the only Melian silver coin of this period in the British Museum. 



A rare and unpublished silver coin of Amisus in Pontus, struck under Hadrian. 



A very rare tetradrachm of Mithradates the Great, bearing an interesting portrait of 

 the King, dated in the 11th month of the Bithynian year 202, corresponding with 

 B.C. 95-4. It differs from the specimens of the same year described by Koehne in the 

 Musee Kotschoubey II., p. 129. 



A bronze coin of Sauromates I., King of Bosporus, a.d. 94-124 ; reverse, a City Gate, 

 on the right of which is a crouching Captive (probably struck in commemoration of a vic- 

 torious campaign). This coin is a variety of the specimen published by Koehne (_Mus. Kots- 

 choubey II., p. 249, No. 28), and described by him as unique. 



A remarkable silver stater of Abydus in the Troad, the chief interest of which is that 

 it belongs to a time circ. B.C. 350, of which no silver staters of Abydus were previously 

 known. 



An electrum stater of Cyzicus, representing Orestes at Delphi clasping the Omphalos of 

 Apollo, a type of extreme rarity (cf. Greeuwell in Num. Chron. 1887, p. 87). 



An electrum stater of Lampsacus, of archaic style (circ. B.C. 500), of extreme 

 rarity. 



A magnificent gold stater of Lampsacus, with a head of Zeus on the obverse, of the 

 finest style of art, admirable both in execution and condition. 



Two silver diobols of Ephesus, B.C. 415-394, similar to Head Coinage of Ephesus, 

 PI. I. 21, but with magistrates' names HPOrNHTOS and SIMOS. 



A silver stater of Ephesus, B.C. 387-295, with the magistrate's name EKATOKAHS ; cf. 

 an octobol, with the same name published by Head {op. cit. PI. II. 10). 



A remarkable archaic tetradrachm of Teos in Ionia. 



Two very fine tetradrachms of Rhodes of the finest period of art; obverse, Head of Helios 

 not radiate facing ; reverse. Rose with bud, symbols, (i) human eye in profile, and (ii) barley 

 corn and letter <I>. 



An Imperial coin of Hieropolis Castabala in Cilicia, Inscr. lEPOnOAITQN TQN 

 nPOC IIYPAMQ, referring to the position of the town on the river Pyramus. 



Three extremely rare and fine silver staters of Mallus in Cilicia; reverses, (i) Demeter ; 

 (ii) Head of bearded Satrap ; (iii) Herakles strangling Lion. 



A rare silver stater of Soli in Cilicia. 



A unique silver stater of Tarsus in Cilicia of the early part of the fourth century 

 B.C. ; obverse, Satrap on horseback ; reverse, a Greek Hoplite kneeling. 



A fine example of the very rare silver stater of Evagoras I. of Salamis in Cyprus, 

 B.C. 410-368, with the inscription Eiayoptj) in Cypriote characters ; obverse. Head of 

 bearded Herakles ; reverse. Ibex, recumbent. 



A bronze 



