50 ACCOUNTS, tike., OF THK BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A rare bronze coin of the third century B.C., of Orthe in Thessaly ; obverse, Head 

 of Pallas ; reverse, OP9IE1S2N ; forepart of horse springing from rock, on which 

 grows a tree (Revue numismaiiqtte, 1843, PI. x. 4). 



A rare half-drachm of Scotussa in Thessaly, circa b.(J. 300 ; obverse. Head of 

 Artemis facing ; reverse, Poseidon seated. 



A fine bronze coin of Pharos (island of lUyria) ; obverse. Head of Zeus ; reverse, 

 4»APION, Goat and Sei'pent. 



An archaic drachm of Mycalessus in Bteotia, circa B.C. .5.50— i80 ; obverse, Boiotian 

 shield; reverse, M in a 'mill-sail' incuse. The early coins of this city are very 

 rare. 



A drachm of Attic weight of (Jarystus in Euboea, belonging to the period B.C. 

 197-140; obverse. Head of bearded Herakles ; reverse, KAPY, Butting Bull; 

 Magistrate, <i>IAi2N, a new and unpublished type. 



An imperial coin of Argos, struck in the reign of Hadrian; i-everse, Kleobis and 

 Biton drawing their mother in a two-wheeled car, a type probably copied from the 

 stone relief which Pausanias (II. 20, 3) describes as being at Argos in his time. 



A bronze coin of Tegea in Arcadia ; obverse. Head of Athena Alea ; reverse, 

 A9ANAS AAEAS. Owl on altar (cf. B. V. Head, Hist. Xum., p. 381). 



An extremely rare obol of the fifth century B.C., of Thaliada; in Arcadia ; obver.se, 

 Hermes kneeling; reverse, IAA9, Swastica. (See Num. Chron. 1888, p. 102.) 



A rare didrachm of Naxos of the second century B.C. ; obverse. Head of bearded 

 Dionysos ; reverse, NASI, Kantharos and Thyrsos ; magistrate's name XAPO 



A highly remarkable silver stater of Sybrita in ('rete; obvei'se, a fine Head of 

 bearded Dionysos, crowned with ivy ; symbol in field, bunch of grapes : reverse, 

 [Sj'i'BPITIflN, Head of Hermes wearing a broad petasos ; symbol, caduceus. This 

 coin belongs to the earlier half of the fourth century K.c. The types on both sides 

 are in extremely high relief and in the finest -style of art. The only published 

 example of this coin is the one in the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow, which is 

 without the inscription. 



A gold stater of Lampsacus in Mysia, of the best period of Greek Art (b.c. 412-3-50) ; 

 obverse, Head of Persephone ; reverse, Forepart of winged Horse. The obverse type 

 is quite new in the series of Lampsacene gold, a series perhaps unsurpassed for beauty 

 of style and variety of types by the gold of any other Greek city. The Museum 

 now possesses seven of these coins out of some twenty or more known varieties (cf. 

 B. V. Head, Hist. Num., p. 456). 



A unique electrum stater of Mytilene, the chief city of the island of Lesljos, and the 

 place of mintage of an extensive series of electrum hecta? during the fifth and fourth 

 centuries B.C. The present remarkable coin is the first stater which has come to 

 light of this city. It is composed to all appearance of the same alloy of gold and 

 silver as that of the contemporary Cyzicenes. Obverse, Head of Apollo, of fine style, 

 and the legend MYTI ; reverse. Quadripartite incuse square. The coin probably 

 belongs to the class issued according to a monetary convention between Mytilene and 

 Phocaea, each city undertaking the coinage for the space of one year. The text of 

 the treaty embodying this agreement was discovered and published by Sir Charles 

 Newton (Trans. R. Soc. Lit., viii. .549). 



An electrum hecte of Lesbos; obverse, A E, Forepart of horse; reverse. Head of 

 'Herakles, incuse. 



A very fine tetradrachm of the second century B.C., of Magnesia, in Ionia; 

 obverse. Head of Artemis ; reverse, MAFNHTON, Apollo standing on the zigzag 

 pattern which symbolizes the inver Mpeander, and leaning upon his tripod. Magis- 

 trate's name, HPOFNHTO'S mnTPIONO'2. 



An imperial bronze coin of the same city, struck in the reign of Severus Alexander ; 

 reverse, APFn MAFNTlTtiN, the ship Argo, with rowers. 



A series of seventeen Imperial coins of Samos, of various types, Hera Samia, 

 Androklos, the Founder, spearing a wild boar ; River-god Imbrasos^ fee. 



A very rare tetradrachm of Alabanda in Caria ; obverse, Head of Apollo ; reverse, 

 AAA[BAN]AEiiN. Pegasos. 



A unique silver coin of lalysus, in Rhodes, of the same type as the tetradrachms 

 described in Hist. Nu7)%,, p. '538, but weighing 76 grs., an entirely new denomination. 



An Imperial coin of Laodicea, in Phrygia, bearing the head of Aelius Caesar ; 

 reverse, AAOAIKEON ACEIC, Zeus Aseis standing, and placing his right hand upon 

 the horns of a goat which stands beside him. The epithet Aseis, .as applied to 

 Zeus, is supposed to be of Semitic origin ; cf., the root f^_y (Aziz, potens, &c.) As 

 Laodicea was founded by Antiochus II., of Syria, it is possible that a Syrian element 

 in the population may have introduced a Syrian word equivalent to the Greek 

 v-ipiTTTos, as an epithet of Zeus. 



A bronze coin of Synnada, in Phrygia, of Imperial times, representing the mountain 

 from which the famous Synnadic marble was quarried. 



An interesting series of Imperial coins of various towns of Lydia, Thrygia, Cilicia, 

 Galatia, and Cappadocia, f.mong which may be mentioned two of the town of 

 Corycus, in Cilicia. On one of these Thalassa is represented as a draped female 

 figure, -with a crabshell on her head, a,nd holding a rudder and an aplustre ; on the 



other 



