ACCOUNTS, &C., OK THE BRITISH MUSEUJ 



40 



II — Acquisitions, 1889. 



Class. 



1 Gold. 



Silver. 



Bronze. 



Billon. 



Lead. 



Glass. 



TOTAI,. 



Greek - - - . 



12 



65 



2()3 



/ 



- 



' 



347 



Roman ... 



9 



1 



10 



- 



- 



- 



20 



Mediaeval and Modern - 



1 



31 



1:3 



2 



1 



- 



48 



English 



2 



72 



16 



- 



3 



- 



93 



Oriental 



86 

 IK) 



371 



339 



10 



2(1 



4 



8;30 



Total - - - 



540 



641 



19 



24 



4 



1 33n 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 



1. Greek Series : — 



An unpublished and highly interesting bronze coin of Etruria, of the early tine 

 style of art, circa B. c. 400, having on the obverse the head of a bearded god wearino- 

 a head-dress composed of the skin of a dolphin. Behind the head is the mark of 

 value I ( = .50). On the reverse is a sea-horse, beneath which is a shrimp, the whole 

 within a border of waves. The reverse type is incuse. The coin belongs to a class 

 of which several specimens are engraved in Garrucci (Mon. d' Italia (PI. LXXV.), but 

 which was previously unrepresented in the British Museum. 



A beautiful and very rare half drachm of Camarinain Sicily; reverse, Flying Nike, 

 carrying a shield. See Salinas (Monete delle antiche citta di Sicili, Tav. xviii. 6). 



A well-preserved silver litra, of Eryx in Sicily, the type of which is Aphrodite 

 Erycina, holding a dove. 



A very rare tetradrachm of Gela in Sicily of the fifth century B. c, obverse 

 TEAOION (retrograde), Victorious quadriga; rev. [SOSIJnOAIS (retrograde), the 

 goddess Sosipolis crowning the River -god in the form of a man -headed bull 

 (B. V. Head, Hist. Num., p. 122). 



An obol of Motya, of a new type, shewing a nymph standing before an altar, and 

 the inscription j^q, the initial and final letters of the Phoenician name of the town 



Nine bronze coins of Olbia, in Sarmatia, of which three belong to the rare class of 

 Olbian aes grave. 



A fine specimen of the rare octadrachm of Abdera in Thrace ; obverse. Griffin 

 seated ; circa B.C. -500. 



A beautiful silver stater of the Chalcidian League, B.C. 8y2-3.58, bearing a new 

 magistrate's name EIII ANNIKA. 



A highly remarkable archaic silver coin of Olynthus ? weighing 8(i grains, one 

 third of the Euboi'c tetradrachm ; obverse, helmeted horseman to the front, riding one 

 horse and leading another. 



An extremely rare tetradrachm of the EuboVc standard, of the city of Sermyle or 

 Sermylia, at the head of the Torona'ic Gulf, in the peninsula of Chalcidice ; obverse, 

 SEPMVAIAON, armed horseman galloping ; reverse, Quadripartite incuse square. 

 The town at which this coin was struck, probably about B.C. .500, is called by 

 Herodotus (vii. 22) Sermylia, and by a Scholiast on Thucydides (i. 65), Sermyle. 

 Stephanus Byzantinus gives the ethnic adjectives "Sitp/jivXiEvg and St/o/iuAtaToc- 

 In the Athenian Tribute lists, B.C. 443-2, the nom. plural of the ethnic occurs as 

 ^epjuvXiig. Whether the inscription on the present coin is an archaic form of the 

 gen. plu. liep/j.vXiiwv, or whether it is a local form of the other ethnic adjective 

 ^epfxvXia'uov, is a doubtful point. (See Greenwell in Num. Chron., 1890.) 



An unpublished half-drachm of Methydrium, in Thcssaly ; obverse, Forepart of 

 horse springing from rock ; reverse, MEG, Head of Herakles in incuse squai-e, 

 circa B.C. 450. 



0.74. G A rare 



