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[No. 3, 
A. Cunningham— Belies from Ancient Persia. 
Athens. 
No. 30. Silver. Tetradrachma, 0 95 inch. Weight 220 grains. 
Author. Very much worn. 
Ohv. Archaic helmeted head of Pallas to right with full elongated 
eye. 
Bev. Owl standing to right in indented square. To left, olive branch 
and crescent. To right A©E. 
No. 31. Silyer. Tetradrachma , 0 9 inch. Weight 266 grains. 
Author. Duplicate, native dealer. 
Ohv. Archaic head of Pallas, but with side eye. 
Bev. Owl, olive twig, and crescent, with AOE as before ; but be 
tween the owl and inscription the letter A surmounted with a sloping line, 
perhaps intended for AI or IA. 
No. 32. Silver. Tetradrachma , 0-9 inch. Weight 260 grains. 
Author. Plate XVIII, fig 1. See Numismatic Chronicle, XIX, Plate 1, fig. 7. 
Ohv. Helmeted head of Pallas to right, of later workmanship, with 
earrings, and roll of hair under back of helmet. In field to left a Greek 
monogram forming MOTY or TIMO. 
Bev. A well formed owl to right, with olive twig and crescent, and 
the usual legend A@E. 
No. 33. Silver, Bidrachma , 07 inch. Weight 121 grains. 
Author. Exactly similar to the last. The British Museum coin, Numisma¬ 
tic Chronicle, XIX, PI. I, fig. 7, appears to be a much worn duplicate of 
this didrachma. 
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Uncertain. 
No. 34. Tetradrachma , 0*85 inch. Weight 250 grains. Author. 
Duplicate. British Museum, 2602 grains. 
Ohv. Helmeted head of Pallas to right, as on the coins of Athens. 
Bev. Owl standing with legs together. To left, olive twig and 
crescent. To right, the Greek letters Air. See Numismatic Chronicle, XX, 
PI. X, fig. 5. 
In his notice of this coin Mr. Percy Gardner states his opinion that 
this, like the others just described, is an “ imitation of Athenian coins 
current in the far East about the time of Alexander.” The letters Air he 
takes “ to begin the name of a Satrap, not of a city, for cities did not in 
“ those regions place their names on their coin.” I confess myself that I 
should rather prefer the name of some city, connected with Athens. In 
my copy of Combe’s Description of the Hunter Collection which had pre¬ 
viously belonged to H. P. Borrell, I remember seeing a new attribution by 
Borrell of a coin of this type to Aegium in the Troad. I write from 
