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XI.
GREEK COINS
ACQUIRED
BY THE BRITISH
MUSEUM IN 1929.
[See
Plates
XIX-XXI]
The
acquisitions
of this
year
have been well
up
to
the
average
in interest and in
importance.
As
usual,
I have
profited by
consultation with Mr. Robinson in
drawing up
the
following
notes. Omitted are such
coins as are
likely
soon to be
published
in the Museum
Catalogues
of N. Africa and
Spain ;
as also the
important
coins from the Delta Find
(already
de-
scribed
by
Mr. Robinson in this volume of the Num.
Chron.y
pp. 93-106),
from the Warren Find of Taren-
tines
(thoroughly
examined
by
Mr.
Vlasto, ibid.,
pp.
107-163),
and the coins of
Ephesus
and the Carian
Dynasts
from a hoard said to have been found at
Makri,
about which Mr. Robinson has an article in
preparation.
The
acquisition
of the
Doguel
Collection has
greatly
strengthened
the series of the Greek mints of S. Russia
and of the S. Coast of the Euxine. The coins
acquired
are for the most
part
rather useful in
completing
series
than
individually interesting ;
but a few of the rarer
or better
preserved specimens
will be mentioned in
their
proper places.
NUMISM.
CHRON.,
VOL, X,
SERIES V.
{J
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286 G. F. HILL.
Temesa or Terina.
1. Obv.
Tripod-lebes ;
on
r.,
crab
;
on
1.,
OS?
downwards,
over 3T
partly
erased in the die. Border of dots
on raised band.
Rev.
Tripod-lebes
incuse
;
on
r., crab,
on 1. ?PO
up-
wards
;
incuse border of
radiating
dashes.
M 27 mm. Wt. 7-90
grm. (121-9 gm.). [Pl. XIX.]
B.M.
Quarterly , iv, p.
101,
Pl. LVIb. 1. From
a small hoard of S. Italian incuse
coins,
formerly
in the
possession
of the late E. P. Warren of
Lewes. A second
specimen,
from the same dies
and from the same
source,
is in the collection of
Dr. A. H.
Lloyd.
A
third,
from the same obverse
die,
in the McClean Collection
(Grose, p. 195,
no.
1647,
PL 52.
4).
Mr. Grose reads the letters under the
present
ob-
verse
inscription
as
3M,
and also a
sign
in the
exergue,
which is
however,
as Dr.
Lloyd, having
re-examined
the
coin,
agrees, probably
a mere accidental
mark;
he describes the coin as restruck over
Metapontum.
But the
identity
of the three obverses shows that this
is a case not of
overstriking,
but of a corrected die.
Also the first letter is
clearly
T not M.
The.
die was therefore
originally
cut for a
place
Te ... . near
Croton,
and this can
only
have been
Temesa or Terina.
Ignoring
what is
obviously
unauthentic,1
we
may
consider the
following
coins which
have been
pub-
lished in connexion with the
early history
of Temesa
or Terina :
(a)
Obv .
Tripod-lebes;
on 1.
upwards,
?PO Border of
dots on raised band.
1
Prospero Parisio,
EaHora
Magnae
Graeciae Numismata
, 1683,
Tab. xi. 9
; cp. Eckhel,
Doctrina
, i, p.
182.
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GREEK COINS
ACQUIRED
BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 287
Rev.
Helmet, crestless,
and border of
radiating dashes,
all incuse.
M Stater. Berlin. 7-94
grm. Cp. Garrucci,
cviii. 27
;
Babelon,
Trait 2170
(frm Garrucci).
(b)
Obv. T I* Helmet.
Rev .
Tripod
between a
pair
of
greaves.
Paris 2056. 19 mm.
Jameson 464. 18-5 mm. 7-88
grm.
See
Mionnet,
i.
204,903 ; Supp.
i.
351,
1074,
Pl. XI. 5.
The Paris
specimen
has an accidental
damage
in the
field behind the crest of the helmet. This defect
was taken
by
Becker,
or rather
by
his assistant
Zindel,2
for an annulet or
omicron,
and as such it
appears
in
the
wonderfully
accurate
forgery
which he made in
1827-8. Close examination of the Becker-Zindel
production
shows other minute deviations from the
model, but,
in the circumstances it is not
surprising
that some have
supposed
all the staters of this
type
to be false.
(c)
Obv .
Tripod.
Rev . Helmet.
M Italic
stater,
of
dumpy
fabric.
This has been
frequently
described,
from more or less
imperfect specimens, e.g.
:
(a)
B.M.C.
Temesa,
no. 1
(no
inscriptions given). ( )
Jameson,
no. 441
;
described
as
reading
on
tripod
side ?PO on
1.,
IE or
r.,
and on
helmet side ?PO
retrograde again.
This
tripod
side
is from the same die as
(y)
a
specimen acquired by
the British Museum in 188.2
;
and two
specimens (5, e,
7-99 and 7-77
grm.)
at Berlin. These between them
2
Hill,
Becker the
Counterfeiter , i,
no. 14.
u 2
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288 G. F. HILL.
make it
fairly
clear that what we have to the
right
of the
tripod
is
T,
the T
being engraved
over a cir-
cular
sign
which
may
be the first or the third letter
of ?PO. Since the die in its
original
condition is not
likely
to have had ?PO twice
over,
it is
possible
that
the
engraver began
to
engrave
a
?
and
then,
im-
mediately discovering
his
mistake,
engraved
the T
over
it,
or
possibly
he had intended to
engrave
TO in
continuation of the ethnic.
()
H. Weber no. 1008
=
Lucerne Sale
iv,
159. Obv.
inscriptions illegible.
Apparently
same dies as
-e.
(d)
Obv .
Tripod-lebes ;
on r.
OS?
upwards ;
on
1.,
crab.
Border of dots on raised band.
Rev.
Tripod-lebes
incuse
;
on r. OS?
upwards,
on 1.
TE
upwards (these
inscrs. are in
relief).
Border
(incuse)
of
radiating
dashes.
Stater of flat fabric. Garrucci cviii.
28; Babelon,
Trait 2171
(from Garrucci).
(e)
Obv .
Tripod-lebes;
on 1.
upwards,
?PO
;
on r. down-
wards,
T E. Raised
guilloche (?)
border
(details
worn).
Rev .
Tripod-lebes
incuse
;
on r. TE in relief. Border
(incuse)
of
radiating
strokes.
Babelon,
Trait
2172,
Pl. LXX. 10=
Luynes
746.
A. H.
Lloyd
=
Evans ex
Benson,
lot
110,
ex
Bunbury.
Stater of thick fabric.
(f)
Obv.
Tripod-lebes ;
on r. ?PO
upwards.
Border of
dots.
Rev. Corinthian helmet 1. Border of incuse
radiating
dashes.
Third of stater.
Cp. B.M.C.,
Croton 42.
Grose,
Fitz william
Catalogue,
no. 1682. Another at
Paris,
no. 747.
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ACQUIRED
BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 289
(g)
Obv .
Tripod-lebes.
No inscr. Border of dots.
Rev. Corinthian helmet r. Border of dots.
Sixth
(?). Paris,
no. 748.
Garrucci maintains that the abbreviation TE on
coins of Croton stands for
Terina,
since Temesa is
abbreviated TEM. The helmet on the later double-
relief
tripod-helmet
coins
cannot,
he
says, represent
Temesa,
because one finds ?PO inscribed
against
it,
where one would
expect
the initials of Temesa. As
to
this,
it
may
be observed that the Greeks were
illogical
in such
matters,
as is
proved by
the sixths
of
Sybaris
and
Poseidonia,
where we find Zu on the
Poseidon side and TToa on the Bull side.3
With
regard
to the
variety (a)
Garrucci mentions
Minervini's
suggestion
that the helmet
represents
Temesa,
objecting
at the same time that the helmet
on the coin inscribed TEM is crested.
The ancient authorities on Terina are collected
by
Regling,
at the
beginning
of his
monograph
on that
place.
We know
nothing
of its
history
before the
second half of the fifth
century, except
that the well-
known
coinage begins
about 480.
Regling rejects
the attribution to Terina of the coins with which we
are concerned in favour of Temesa
(
Terina
,
p.
32 and
p.
69 note 1
c) ;
in that
time,
he
says,
Terina did not
exist or was not
yet independent.
Finally
Babelon in his Traite assumes that Te
represents
Terina,
and does not consider the claims
of Temesa at all. The
portion
of his
work, however,
in
which the
double-type
coins would have
appeared,
was
unfinished at his death and has not
yet
been
published.
3
Hill,
Hist. Gk. Coins
, p.
51.
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290
G. F. HILL.
The
question
cannot be
regarded
as
settled,
but the
probability
seems to me to be
greatly
in favour of the
attribution of these coins to
Temesa, standing
not so
much in alliance with as in
subjection
to
Croton,
at
the mint of which
city
the dies were doubtless made.
Tyra.
2. Obv. Head of
young
Heracles
r.,
in lion-skin.
Bev. TYP A above bull
standing
r. on club.
M
f
18-5 mm. 2-75
grm. (42-5 grn.). [Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
Olbia.
3. Obv. Head of Demeter
1.,
wreathed with corn.
Bev .
Sea-eagle
1. on
dolphin ;
behind
eagle's tail,
bow
incase;
above MO XI
;
below OABIO Incuse
circle.
M
J
21 mm. 8-58
grm. (131-6 grn.). [Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
4. Obv. Head of Demeter 1. as
City-goddess, wearing
tur-
reted crown wreathed with corn
;
hair in
long
loose
locks,
and
earring.
Bev. Archer
kneeling
1.
, shooting ; quiver
at waist
;
on
r. downwards S15TPA
;
inscr. in
exergue
off
the flan.
M
I
18 mm. 5-02
grm. (77-4 grn.). [PL XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
Cp. Burachkov,
Pl. VII. 152.
5. Obv. Head of
Borysthenes
bearded and
horned,
1.
Bev. Battle-axe and
gory
tos. On r.
upwards OABIO,
on 1.
upwards
>E
M -> 25 mm. 11-24
grm. (173-5 grn.). [PL XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
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6. Obv. Head of
young
Heracles r.
wearing
lion- skin.
Bev.
Club, horizontal; above,
OABIO
; below,
EIHBA
Concave field.
mm. Wt. 7-73
grm. (119-3 grn.). [Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
Cp.
Bur. IV. 42.
7. Obv . Bust of
Apollo r.,
laureate
;
in
front,
bow
;
inscr.
<->[0]ABI0n0
AE
Bev.
Eagle standing
r. on
dolphin ;
on r.
XAA
M
f
25-5 mm. Wt. 9-19
grm. (141-8 grn.) [Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
Cp.
Bur. vii. 169.
8. Obv . Bust of
Apollo
r. laureate
; below, dolphin (?) ;
in
front,
bow
; behind, X(?)
an(*
>
inscr.
-
OOABIOnOAITU)N
Bev .
Eagle standing
1. on
thunderbolt; inscr.,
on r.
}
niCICCTPA,
in
exergue YOT,
on 1.
YO
AAAAK
Border of dots.
M
j
32 mm. 15-42
grm. (238-0 grn.). [Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
Cp.
Bur. viii. 173.
Inensimeus.
9. Obv . Head of
king r.,
bearded and diademed
; behind,
^
;
inscr. JBACIAE2CINICME1C Border
of dots.
Bev. Head of
City r., wearing
turreted
crown,
wreathed
;
inscr. O OABIonOAEITElN XC
Ai drachm
],
19 mm. Wt. 8-36
grm. (51-8 grn.).
[Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
Cp.
Bur. ix. 212.
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292 G. F. HILL.
Chebsonesus Taubica.
10. Obv. Head of Artemis
(?) 1.,
above a fish. Border of
dots.
Rev .
Club, horizontal; above,
XEP Border of
dots;
incuse circle.
M obol 9 mm. 047
grm. (7-2 grn.). [Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
11. Obv. Female head
1.,
hair bound with fillet and taken
up
at back in
sling.
Rev . Fish and club
horizontally ;
below XEP
M
j
16 mm. 3-97
grm. (61-2 grn.). [Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
Cp.
the silver
coin,
Bur. xiv. 25.
12. Obv. Artemis seated
r., sighting
an
arrow;
before
her,
a
stag standing.
Rev . Bull 1. with lowered head and raised 1.
foreleg,
on
club; above,
XEP
M
f
22 mm. 9-76
grm. (150-6 grn.). [Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
Cp.
Bur. xiv. 36.
13. Obv. Head of lion r.
Rev . XEP and three
pellets
between the six
spokes
of
a wheel.
M 12 mm. Wt. 1-50
grm. (231 grn.). [Pl. XIX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
Variety
of Bur. xv. 71.
Mende.
14-15. The staters of Mende with the sun-disk and four-
palmettes
reverses have so often been
published,4
that it is not
necessary
to describe in detail the
4
These actual
specimens
are illustrated in B. M.
Quarterly , iv,
3, 1929, p. 50,
Pl. VI.
1,
and IV.
4, 1930, p. 102,
Pl. LVI&. 2.
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ACQUIRED
BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 293
admirable
specimens
which the Museum has
acquired.
That with the sun-disk
[Pl.
XX.
14]
is of the dies described
by
Noe
5
under no. 86
;
that with the
palmettes [Pl.
XX.
15]
is no. 82.
The former has been
presented by
Mr. C. S.
Gulbenkian,
the latter
by
Mr.
Stephen
Courtauld.
Thanks to the
generosity
of these
gentlemen,
to whom the National Collection
already
owed
so
much,
the series of
types
of Mende
(though
not of course in all the
varieties)
is now com-
pletely represented
in the Museum.
Athens.
16-23. The
generous gift by
the Rev.
Edgar Rogers
of all
such of his bronze coins of Athens as the
Museum
requires,
has enabled us to add
many
fine
specimens
to our
already
rich series. I illus-
trate
only
a few
specimens
which seem to
give
a better idea of the
type
than those
figured by
Svoronos in his Trsor . Of the various Athena
types,
Pl. XX. 16
corresponds
to Svoronos
PL 85. 27
;
Pl. XX. 17 to Svor. PI. 86. 82 ff.
;
PL XX. 18 to Svor. PL 88. 6-7. Pl. XX.
19,
corresponding
to Svor. PL 90.
5,
with
owl,
olive-tree and
vase,
shows
clearly
the branch
under the
inscription
in the
exergue.
Pl. XX. 20
is a
good specimen
of the Farnese Hercules
(Svor.
Pl. 95.
3);
Pl. XX. 21 of the Theseus
and Minotaur
(Svor.
Pl. 96. 1
if.) ;
and Pl. XX. 22
of the bucranium
(Svor.
Pl. 99. 1
if.).
The
Acropolis (Pl.
XX. 23
; cp. Svor.,
Pl. 98. 32
f.)
is
especially interesting
as
showing
the
great
altar of Athene Polias to the left
(east)
of the
Parthenon
;
a feature
which,
I
believe,
has not
been noticed on
any
other
specimen
of this coin.
Neocaesabea Ponti.
24. Obv. Head of Tiberius
r.,
bare
; behind,
TIBEPION
;
in
front, illegible inscription, apparently
TIBER
confused
by recutting
other letters
(? CEBA)
over the word.
5
Num. Notes and
Monographs ,
no. 27.
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294 G. F. HILL.
Rev. Thunderbolt
upright ;
inscr. O NEOKV ICAPEIC
M
1
15 mm. Wt. 3-32
grm. (51-3 grn.). [Pl. XX.]
From the
Doguel
Collection.
There can be little doubt about the attribution of
this coin to
Cabeira-Neocaesarea,
and none about the
identification of the
head
on the obverse. It therefore
fills a
gap
in the
history
of the
place.6
It is said that
Pythodoris (8
b.c. to A.D.
22-3?)
resided at
Cabeira,
and
gave
it the name of
Sebaste;
and it has been
suggested
that the coins of
Pythodoris
and Polemon II
were struck there. This coin makes it clear that in
the time of Tiberius the
place
had received the name
of Neocaesarea. Hitherto the first mention of the
place
under that name was to be found in literature
in
Pliny (vi. 2),
and on coins under
Trajan.
The
inscription
on this coin is in the honorific form
Ti(3piov NeoKCCiCTCcpes (T^aav).
Colophon.
25. Obv. Head of
Apollo r.,
with
long hair, laureate,
one
end of the tie of the wreath turned
up
and
ending
in a
fringe.
Rev .
Apollo
as
Kitharoidos, standing r.,
1.
resting
on
kithara,
r.
holding
lustral branch with fillets
;
behind, downwards,
KOAO<l>ilNlflN All in
lau rei- wreath.
M Attic tetradrachm
f
34 mm. Wt. 15-75
grm.
(243*1 grn.).
From
Aleppo [Pl. XX].
B.M.
Quarterly ,
iv.
2, p.
35.
This rare coin was
previously
known
only
from the
poorly preserved specimen
at Paris.7 It
belongs,
of
6
See the
summary
in the Recueil I. i
(2d. ed.), p.
116.
7
Babelon,
Inventaire
Waddington
1489.
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course,
to the
period following
190
b.c.,
and the
nearest
parallel
is
perhaps
to be found in the
Apollo
tetradrachms of
Myrina
of the same
period.
For
some time before 188 b.c.
Colophon
had been under
Pergamene
rule. In 189 the
Colophonians,
or at
any
rate those of them who inhabited
Notion,
were de-
clared free
by
the Romans.8 It is to this
period
of
freedom that the
coinage belongs.
Cnidus.
26. Obv. Infant
Heracles, kneeling r.,
on
exergual line,
struggling
with two
serpents ;
inscr.
above,
Y on
r.,
N in
exergue.
Bev. Head of
Aphrodite r.,
hair rolled and taken
up
in
sling
behind
;
wears
earring
and necklace
;
in
front of
neck,
small
prow ;
inscr. on r. down-
wards and on 1.
upwards [K]N[I]
AI1N
Incuse
square.
M -> 21 mm. Tridrachm. 11-40
grm. (175-9 grn.).
[Pl. XXI.]
From the same dies as the Berlin
specimen, Z./.A7.,
XXV.
210,
PI. VII.
4;
from same obv. die as B.M.C.
Caria
, Cnidus,
no.
27,
Pl. XIV. 9.
For the latest discussion of the
group
of
coins,
issued
by
various cities in alliance
against Sparta
after 394
b.c.,
see Num . Citron
1928,
pp.
10-11.
The obverse shows one detail which has not been
noticed
before,
and that is a
straight
line,
like the
letter
I, radiating
outwards,
just
under the neck of
the
serpent
which Heracles
grasps
with his left hand.
It is
faintly
visible in the
photograph
of the Berlin
specimen.
It has
nothing
to do with the letter
N,
8
See Brchner in
P.W.K.,
U.E. s.v.
Kolophon ,
col. 1118.
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which the other
specimens,
of which the lower
part
is
preserved,
shows to be in the
exergue.
I cannot
explain
it.
27. Obv. Busts of Caracalla
(laureate, wearing
cuirass and
paludamentum)
r. and Plautilla
1., confronted;
inscr. O AY*. MAYP*ANT 1N6INOC and
u
-
TTAAYTIAAA Border of dots.
Rev. The
Aphrodite
of Praxiteles
;
inscr. on 1.
upwards
KNIAI
,
on r. downwards 1N Border of dots.
iE
t
82 mm. 18-98
grm. (215-8 grn.). [Pl. XXI.]
From the same dies as the Paris
specimen,
which,
however,
has been tooled.9 The new
specimen, though
slightly
worn,
is otherwise
fortunately quite unspgiled.10
Rhodes.
28. Obv. Head of Helios
facing, slightly
inclined to r.
Bev. Rose with bud on 1.
; above, [P]OA ION;
be-
tween bud and
rose,

;
in field r.
phiale
with
umbilicus. Incuse
square.
M
f
26-5 mm. 14-99
grm. (281-8 grn.). Formerly
in
the Balthasar Coll.
(Olmtitz).
Presented
by
G. F. Hill.
[Pl. XXI.]
One of the series of fine Rhodian tetradrachms
dating
from about 400 to 333 b.c. The same
symbol, placed
with the letter
4>
on the
left,
while the bud is on the
right,
is found on the
specimen
from the Pozzi sale
(no. 2682).
9
See
Baumeister,
Denkmler
, iii, p.
1402. The
tooling
is most
severe on the
drapery
and vase
;
but the whole of the surface has
apparently
been worked over.
10
On the whole
subject,
see Chr.
Blinkenberg,
Den knidisTce
Afrodite , esp. pp.
32 f. This excellent
monograph ought
to be
translated into a
language
more
commonly
understood than
Danish.
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GREEK COINS
ACQUIRED
BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 297
29. Obv. Head of Helios
radiate, facing, slightly
inclined
to r.
Bev.
Rose,
with bud on
r.,
and P O at sides of stalk
;
above
~
ITAII1N
;
in field
1., Asklepios
standing r., resting
with 1. on
serpent-staif.
Border of
large
dots.
M
f
28 mm. 1347
grm. (207-9 grn.). [Pl. XXI.]
30.
Another, generally similar,
but instead of
Asklepios
omphalos
entwined
by serpent.
M
f
26-5 mm. 13-40
grm. (206-8 grn.). [Pl. XXI.]
31.
Another,
with APIZTOBOYAOZ and thunderbolt.
M
t
27 nim. 13-60
grm. (209-9 grn.). [Pl.
XXI
]
These three
tetradrachms,
of the
period
304-166
b.c.,
come from a
hoard,
of which details are not known.
As
regards
Aristoboulos
,
he is known from didrachms
(B.M.O.,
no.
137,
symbol
: ear of
corn),
and also
(unless
this is another man of the same
name)
as
striking
imitations of Alexander the Great and
Lysimachus.
Of Stasion there is a didrachm with
symbol
bow-
in-case and club
(B.M.C.
149 and
Naville,
iv.
914)
and
a drachm with
symbol
bow and club crossed
(ibid. 182,
183),
as well as an Alexandrine tetradrachm. Since
these Rhodian imitations of Alexander and
Lysimachus
hardly begin
before 190
b.c.,
it would seem that the
ordinary
Rhodian tetradrachms struck
by
the
magis-
trates Aristoboulos and Stasion must
belong
to the
end of the
period
to which this class is
assigned by
Head.
Ameinias,
on the other
hand,
of whom there
were worn coins in the
hoard,
probably belongs
to the
earlier
part
of the
period
;
he did not strike imitations
of Alexander or
Lysimachus.
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298 G. F. HILL.
Syria. Demetrius I.
32. Obv. Head of Demetrius
r.,
diademed. Wreath border.
Rev .
[B]
AZ I
AE[1Z]
on r.
downwards,
AHM HTPI*Y
on 1. downwards.
Tyche
seated
].,
holding
short wand in
r., cornucopiae
in 1.
;
back
support
of the seat in form of a
winged
tritoness
;
in
field
1., monogram
and
forepart
of hound
1.,
with
pricked
ears.
M
f
28 mm. Wt. 16-25
grm. (250*8 grn.).
From
Glendining's Sale,
1 xi.
1928,
lot 229.
[Pl. XXI.]
The
symbol
is
probably
the same creature whose head
forms the reverse of the remarkable bronze coin
pub-
lished in Num . Chron
1917, p. 25,
Pl. III. 6
(cp.
Babelon,
Eois de
Syrie
,
Pl. XVI.
13).
Persis.
33,
34. Two
important
coins from the Aliotte de la
Fue
Collection
have,
thanks once more to Mr. Gul-
benkian,
come to enrich our series of Persis.
The first
(33,
Pl.
XXI)
is a fine drachm of
Bagadat
1
11
;
the second
(34,
Pl.
XXI)
a tetra-
drachm of
Autophradates
I.12 As
they
have
been
fuJly discussed,
and the former
illustrated,
by
Aliotte de la
Fue himself,
I do no more
than illustrate them here.
Alexandria. Antinous.
35. Obv . ANTINOOV on 1.
upwards,
HPGl)[OC]
on r.
downwards. Bust of Antinotis
r., wearing
hemhem
crown,
shoulders
draped.
Border of
dots.
11
Aliotte de la
Fue, Numismatique
de la Ferside in Corolla
Num., p. 79, 1,
Pl. III: B.M.C. Arabia
, &c., p. clxiv;
Sale
Catai.,
lot 1472.
12
Aliotte de la
Fuye, op
.
cit., p. 87,
no. 20
;
Sale
Catal.,
lot
1474.
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GREEK COINS
ACQUIRED
BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM 299
Rev. Antinos as Hermes
riding r.,
nude but for
chlamys
over shoulders and
breast,
carrying
caduceus in r. arm
;
before horse's breast L
;
below,
I 0 Plain border.
M
I
23 mm. Wt. 9-23
grm. (142-4 gr.).
From the
Peckitt
Sale, S.W.H.,
21 ii.
29,
lot 284.
Cp.
Dattari 2083
(?).
Not illustrated.
With
this,
in the same
lot,
were
purchased
three
other coins of Antinous
;
one also of
year 19, '
28
mm.,
bust to
r.,
rider with
chlamys fluttering
on
rev.;
the
others,
with bust to
1.,
of
year
21,
f
28-5 mm. and
'
24 mm.
respectively,
both with
fluttering chlamys.
Of these
three,
the first seems to
correspond,
in
spite
of its smaller
size,
to Dattari nos. 2081-2
;
the second
to his no.
2090,
and the third to his
2091, although
the date is
differently arranged.
Axum. Ella
Gabaz,
Negus.
36. Obv.
o
+ mAAAT ABASMT Bust
r.,
with low
crown,
r. hand
holding
ear of corn which
goes up
in
front of
face,
while a second ear rises
behind,
the two
meeting
at the
top.
Thick inner and
outer circles.
Rev. Q +
BA
+ <I + A
+ V< Similar bust and ar-
rangement
to
obverse,
but for crown a sort of
round
cap
is substituted.
N
I
18 mm. 1-45
grm. (22-3 grn.).
Not illustrated.
Cp. Anzani,
Numismatica Axumita
, 1926,
no. 196.
The date of Ella Gabaz is
supposed
to be seventh-
eighth
cent.
G. F. Hill.
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1929
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IMPRIMERIE G. BOAN
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Arquebusiers.
Paris
7594
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