Zeitschrift für Numismatik, vol. 15 — 1887

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MARRIAGE ET EEE REEL EEE DEN ET TE Re nn LAKE LE Contents of the fifteenth volume. Antiquity. Sallet, A.v., The acquisitions of the Royal Coin Cabinet from April 1, 1886 to April 1, 1887. (Plate I. II.) (Including the Middle Ages) Löbbecke, A., Greek coins from my collection III. (Plate III) Drexler, W., About some of Sabatier in the Revue de la numismatique Belge issued coins 5 Mommsen, Th., The Coins of C. Olanins Vak : Mommsen, Th., Mithradates Philopator Philadelphos Mommsen, Th., The fifteen mints of the fifteen dioolerianıenan Dioceses a Mommsen, Th., Eidniians SR Schmidt, M., N and KLXC to your dr Offein Nena By sanen, S. N., The Cretan coin with MQAAIQN Wilcken, U., On the Curse of the Egyptian Drachma . Wilcken, U., The Titulation of Vaballathus Middle Ages & Alexi, S., Coinage the city of Magdeburg a. 1550 and 1551. (Plate IV) s Kull, J. V., On the collection of Biyanmkchlen Mlnzreshke } N Menadier, J., Finds of German coins from the Middle Ages (Plate V— _vm) Weber, Two interesting medieval coins Vleuten, F. v., A minting error. 5 Buchenau, H., The coins of the wildechenien provost \ Dannenberg, Mm. Three coin finds from the Xth and XIth centuries Fif hundred Krause, K. E. m The Frisian Tuna; Tahnbir San Dannenberg, H., The sterling find from Ribnitz. (Plate VII) ... necrologist Hans Reimer Paul Lambros . .

IV Contents of the fifteenth volume. Literature. Page Demole ur aSe N ya EE S BER 929 nm 0 and RER ONLY RR IT N TO N . 335 Ense and Behr... ul. ee a 232 Beel re Ka Nope Head aa ee N ea a Imhoot Biumer and Garüner . ..... .. sucans load: RO a PLACES DON, Winter 0a... he 340 Negotiations of the Numismatic Society in Berlin 1887. Misprint. P. 9, line 15 read: also instead of: also. P. 81, line 9 read: Sabazius instead of: Men. On pages 186 and 187, Bracteates Nos. 2 and 3 are still among those of the abbot Siegfried. P. 244, note 1, line 5 read: London instead of: Lyon.

{ } | 1 \ { { fl N h } EGGS EEE The acquisitions of the Royal Mint from April 1, 1886 to April 1, 1887. Plate I. 11. The collection acquired 426 pieces last year: N R AM Together. PnBehem: on 68 89 159 Ba 4 18 24 Middle Ages and modern times. .... 4 45 44 93 Ben 85 59 146 seal stamp . . . . 22.2.2... — 4 4 10: 203. 212 426 also a larger number with a gift of Roman and Alexandrian antiquities handed over to the museum niche copper coins, which are placed with the doublets had to; also 14 clay molds of Roman imperial coins and two interesting silver forgeries of Lyean coins. The collection received gifts from H. M. the Emperor, 8. Kais. etc. Your Highness the Crown Prince, from Mr. Blas, Government Councilor Brakenhausen, publishing bookseller Albert Cohn, Director Prof. Dr. Erman, Assessor Friedensburg, Major v. Graba, Banker Hahlo, magistrate Henry, A. Jungfer, Kgl. Conservator Krause, Dr. v. Luschan, Prof. Dr. Mommsen, Dr. Moritz, Resch, Rivett-Carnac, Prof. Dr. Schweinfurth, Lieutenant General v. Winterfeld, from the Italian government, the city of London and from the magistrate of Nuremberg. Like last year, this time too it is initially a larger one Number of Greek autonomous coins in excellent condition and often of high artistic beauty, including Journal of Numismatics. XV, 1

» A.v. Sallet: Silver coins from Elis, Pheneus, Rhodes, a Ptolemy and others. m. of a beauty and perfection of style and preservation, as they only have the most select and tasteful French ones collections, Dupre, Luynes, Paravey and similar had. Several of these pieces are mentioned below and be discussed. The most important pieces of the Greek series are in geo- graphical arrangement as follows: Cunobelinus, British king, first imperial period, from u to Caligula or Claudius. CVNOBELINI head with laurel wreath |. R/. TASCIOVANI - F Centaur r., the 1st horse foot lifting, blowing on a horn, with flying ones coat. TO. 0%. This extremely rare coin, known in legend as “Cymbeline” famous powerful British king is one of his most important, because she gives us his image; At least that's how the head turns out understood. Evans (the coins of the ancient Britons 1864 p. 327) says: “the portrait being that of Cunobelinus, represented after the manner of the Roman emperors”. The type of perception especially the laurel wreath with the diadem bow, is of course thing so completely the equipment of a Roman imperial head no matter that one is more likely to think of the image of such a as on the one that resembles those heads in the British costume King would like to think, the head even has a certain similarity ity with Tiberius. A second coin of Cunobelinus, which is similar in gold the relatively most common one is in copper very rare and different from the two similar ones described by Evans benen (p. 347) differs: CA M (Camulodunum, the mint of Colchester). the sides of an upright ear of wheat. R/. CVNO under an r. charging horses, above him branch, below the body point. Room 3%.

a nn en en ee My ann en The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 3 Palatium near Reate in the Sabine region. Unbearded head of the volcano with the hat right, am Neck the pliers. Rj/. PALACINV & mask with mouth wide open, two Wings, tied together at the neck, flapping Ribbons. TO. 4, This coin is only known in very few copies - a new mint for our collection - from Borghesi's collection, is first of all due to the strange type of back- page strange; whether it is a mere Bacchic mask with wings and ribbons is whether we have a peculiar Gorgoneion here have recognized remains uncertain. It is equally uncertain whether we “palacinus” or “palacinu” and whether then that & is considered a semi symbol; the position speaks for the latter. The Reading of another copy: PALACNV2 (Garucei le monete dell'Italia antica 1885 p. 77 Plate 82, 28) is perhaps just one Stamping errors or the result of poor preservation. The geographical definition of this was first determined by Sestini. known coin and another with Pallas's head and PAL in the wreath on the back has its difficulties; after Elimination of impossible allocations is assumed (Sestini, Deser. num. V.p. 2; Sanclementiani musei numismata I. p. 247), that the city of Felath m “24 Stadiums of Reate”, by Dionysius Halie. mentioned that the place of minting was. Garucei chooses an alleged Pallanum in Pelignerland by calling “palacnus” with Peligni, but contradicts this assignment just the completely undoubted reading PALACINV & the beautiful Borghesian example. But also the determination of the Palatium 1*

4 A.v. Sallet: is very doubtful; Even the transcription doesn't quite match the traditional name, but then this is Palatium or To consider Palatia as an ancient abandoned city: 70a» Ö’Ev ci “Pearivn yn vov Ansvvwov 00Wv od uaxoav, ws Baddov Teo&vros 2v doxawkoyieıs yodysı, ano vis "Pouaiwv nolsws ai 10 Poeyvrarov Arıexovocı mwegncıov dieoımur Ödov' @v &ya day errıpyavsoraras @g Exsivog IoTogei, diınynoouaı' Iahdrıov uEv nıevre 7005 Tois Eixooı orradioıs aysorws “Psarov mroAswg oixovwerns Uno Poueiwov ice cream &ut, Koivsia 0dov rAmoiov x. e.g. A. (Dion. Halic. archaeol. I. cap. XIV). — C.I.L.IX p. 434: “quae de via Quinctia oppidisque desertis ad eam site: Palatia, Trebula, Suezbola etc. ex Varrone Dionysius (I, 14) refert'); and the Minting time of the coin is hardly far from Varro’s Time, I would put it around 100 BC at the earliest. BC. The coin is certainly italian, and indeed middle italian, this proves the style and especially the not rounded, but like chipped edge, with cast marks of the metal piece on two pages. It's definitely not a Roman tessera, the character of these pieces is a completely different and mostly later one; therefore You probably aren't allowed in the “Palacinu” or “Palacinus” either assume a proper name that could well appear on a tessera, which is difficult to find as a magistrate's name on a coin without the name of the city. Anyway, that's it completely clear and legible copy of the enigmatic adhere extremely rare coin a pleasant enrichment our Italian series. Heraclea Lucaniae. Pallas's head right, in front of the neck &, on the helmet griffin. Rf. HPAKEIRN (sic) Heracles kneeling, the Nemeans choking lions; below EY. A&R.5. Plate I. 11. 1) That the entire “ager Reatinus” was called Palatium, says Varro de lingua lat. V, 53: quod Palatini Aborigines ex agro Reatino, qui appellatur Palatium, ibi (on the Palatine) consederunt. — Solinus recounts the hike vice versa ($29). |E | E)

The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 5 The depiction of Heracles kneeling is on the large ones Silver coins from Heraclea extremely rare; our copy, whose Inscription incorrectly omits the A, is of extraordinarily fine, delicate style, almost slightly old-fashioned, with a bit of angularity movements. The stamp the front also comes with it a Heracles in the usual position, standing, in front of Copy is in our collection. Received a significant enrichment, as in the previous year previous years, which still need a lot of completion Rows of Greek cities of Crimea; the very rare one piece of Chersonesus. XEPLONHLOV StandingHygiea, the snake in the R., with the L. holding out the bowl to her. KRf. &AeVOEPAC Standing Asclepius from the front, the head l. turning, supporting the row on the snake staff. AWAY. 44. Despite the late period of this coinage, the style is a striking falling good; a round sigma on one side next to the square one On the other hand, there is nothing remarkable on late Greek coins. A number of silver coins are extremely rare Panticapaeum. 1. Bearded head of Pan Il., of good style. R/. TANTI in section. Front part of a lion |]., behind it crescent moon. , 1...0.08 sizes: 2. Apollo head right. Rf. PANTIKAPAITRN Front part of a horse r. 242.95 grm. 3. Apollo head right. R/. TAN in front of the eagle with outstretched wings r. BR. 2-3%. 3.65 grm. 4. Apollo head right. R/. MANIKA to the sides of the lyre MAIT IR: 2%, :.1,22:Grmm.

6 A.v. Sallet: 5. Youthful head of Bacchus with wreath of ivy r. RF MANTI in the ivy wreath; above hangs in the wreath KATIAI a bunch of grapes, above the wreath mono- SOUND gram from H, A, P,Y, T. R. 5. bad silver. 6.66 grm. Abdera. An almost perfect preserved copy of the very rare large silver coin with the dancing girl as the emblem of Molpagoras: ABAHPITERN Sitting griffin 1. the r. forefoot uplifting. Rf. ETIMOA FAFOPER dancing, the r. Arm raising Girl ], a basket on her head, the whole thing in a shallow, recessed square. AMe.:5% 12.82 grm. Tar I. 10, The small, delicate figure is in many forms on this example Parts sharper than on the slightly different, the figure The piece facing right shows the same depictions and transcriptions, which we acquired in 1882. One that is still unknown and unfortunately cannot be determined at the moment Mint offers us one small most likely after Thrace belonging ancient silver coin, which ones so much I know it hasn't been announced anywhere yet: Female head right, hair in net. Rf. zANMA around a lion's head right; very flat ver- deep square. mN2Y. 1.12 grm. The style of this in the embossing as well as in the letters is quite Ancient coin points to Thrace or at least to one northern area; I don't want to think of them as Asian Minor. Unfortunately is the stamp on the back for the metal piece to been big, so that the sides are to the right of the head and below

ee ee EEE DEN LEE ZEN EEE EEE ZEN no u ED N BET u Rent The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 7 are not fully visible to him; therefore you cannot say with certainty whether the inscription is completely complete, but seems to be her. A city or a prince, on which the inscription z

8 A.v. Sallet: Elis, which is so close to Pheneus, is also stamped were freshly found, also around 370 BC. BC or a few must be coined years later. This date has a important result for the development of the Zeus ideal in Elis (Olympia): acquired our collection from the find two very fresh copies of Elis' didrachms: Zeus head with wreath 1. Rf. FA eagle on an Ionic capital r. RR. 5! Valley. LA. Zeus head with wreath right, with longer, flowing hair. Rf. FANEIRN around the eagle on the Ionian capital r. R.N6. a 10; This latter piece was in several completely mint condition specimens found. The first coin, as the illustration will teach, is one Copy, but a witty and beautiful one, of the famous older ones Coin with FANEION in front of the head of Zeus of a somewhat strict style, in which there is probably a reference to Phidias' Zeus assumed (Plate I. 2), only the piece is from the new find by consciously modernized, much softer facial features and shapes. But the second coin in the find suddenly shows a completely different one Opinion: instead of the still strict, somewhat old-fashioned The somewhat rigid attitude that resonates with the spiritual ideal (of Phidias) The flowing action of the hair, curls and beard occurs like hair flying lightly in the wind, the flowing beard and the Hair raised in strong curls in front of the forehead aveovoAn dis xöums; that head, probably one the most beautiful This is the Greek head of Zeus that has survived to us The model of all the later Zeus formations in the one we are used to Form that has its end and exaggeration in the otricoli and the other countless lesser, outdated, more recent images of Zeus achieved with excessively wild hair and beard; also the goods visual features, the gentle thoughtful expression, the opened mouth, which the latter coin shows breaks with the old, stricter one 4 j a

| $ | ® The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 9 Tradition that the first coin still holds, and are that Model for the usual later conception of the head of Zeus. Since both coins are now in completely mint, excellent copies, examples, some of them multiple times, were in a coin find, like this they must be at the same time, i.e. h. both around 370-362 BC. BC emerged. So for the coinage of Elis- Olympia provides proof that the older, so to speak phidiassic cal view of the head of Zeus with the time of Epaminondas (also with the time of Praxiteles) came to an end and the modern, softer ones with the flying head and beard hair had to give way, as we have already done in a very similar way were able to prove the coinage of the Arcadians: the large silver Pieces of the arcade with the head of Zeus and seated Pan, all of them caused by the victorious wars of Epaminondas also two separate types of Zeus head: the older, something stricter with short hair, not unlike that of the older coins from Elis, and the newer type with flowing hair and beard. Among the other coins of Elis, which we have in the last Years ago, there is another piece with the head of Zeus and eagle notable: Zeus head with wreath 1. R/. FA Adler r. on the Ionian capital. 2.90) all & This exquisitely preserved piece is what concerns the head a strange one Example more slavish and less witty Copy: it is made exactly according to the one mentioned, slightly antiquated head, which is attributed to Phidias' Zeus, with FANEION, worked; certainly only a little later, probably around 400-390 y. BC, without any desire to modernize, but also without the strength and beauty of form of the more ancient model; the eagle the back is very nice. Two are also notable for their excellent style Didrachms of Elis with the head of Hera:

10 A.v. Sallet: FA Herakopf r. of a serious, almost strict style, with a wide crown decorated with palmettes. R/. TO Eagle with outstretched wings, r. standing, the Turning head, in the wreath. AR: 6: Valley, L38: _ 3A around the head of Hera as before, but from a further © safer expression. FA Rf. similar to the previous one, the n does not distribute, but standing one below the other on the right. BR.161%:: Dal. 1%: This latter, Unfortunately there is a bit of a rubbed piece, so much I know, not yet known. It is one of the most beautiful hera- heads of the coins of Elis, of unusually soft, mild Character. The font and the ending ON indicate quite early coinage, probably certainly before the time of Epaminondas, perhaps soon after 400 BC. BC Also one of the such rare and sought-after copper coins Hadrian's of Elis with the image of the Zeus statue of Phidias I managed to do this in an ignored sales catalog where the The back was not recognized to find and ours both Add pieces with this representation: AYTOKPA behind Hadrian's head r. — The head very big, it seems the stamp was originally for to be a much larger coin. Rj. HAEIQN right, from above, next to the enthroned one Zeus of Phidias with Nike on the R., the L. on supporting the scepter, facing left. A.6. Unfortunately, as usual with these rare pieces, the Condition of the back not the best, but every copy is new This important coin image deserves to be sought out. The Outlines of the figure, the throne with its legs and the foot bank, are quite clear and complement some small details the two similar existing pieces.

EGGS EN The King's Acquisitions Coin collections until April 1, 1887. 11 Axus Cretae. Apollo head with laurel wreath right. RF NOISMAX on the left, from above, next to the tripod: this Whole in a flat, recessed square. AR. 6th, 11.72 grm. This is the coin of P. Lambros as a Cretan coin Naxos published piece (Zeitschr. f. Numism. XII. p. 125). There are currently two pieces with inscriptions, both from Mr Lambros discovered, one with ne and ours. So welcome- men this discovery of coins from a Cretan city of Naxos seemed to be, it is now completely certain through inscriptions proven (Halbherr, nuove monete di Axos, Mitth. d. arch. Instit. Athens, 1886, XI. p. 84) that the first letter of this coin inscription a strangely designed dish native to Crete gamma is that we read the inscription accordingly FAKZION have, from what yourself the belonging of the coins to Axos results in its well-known silver coins also the Digamma (in regular form) and the same Guys, Apollo head and tripod have. When we go through the newly found Coins didn't get to know a new Cretan city either have, like that are it yes after all palaeographic highest strange ones and as oldest Didrachms from Axos extremely valuable pieces. Polemo I of Pontus. Head with diadem right. Rf. BAZINERZ TIOAEM2NOZ EYZEBOYEZ for a large one eight-pointed star. AR, 4. Grm. 8.19 Koehne (Mus. Kotchoubey, 1857 I, 175) also knew about Only the copy of this extremely rare silver coin Allier de Hauteroche owned, now several are gradually becoming too days have come, but it is also in Russian collections Coin still very rare.

12 A.v. Sallet: Cyzicus, time of Faustina junior. KOPH CQTEIPA KYZIKHNDN Bust of Persephone r., like it seems with the trains the younger one Faustina, with wreath of wheat. RF Kyzı M K KHNDN and in the section NEOKOPRN. Two large frames: basket-like frames with high Covered and filled with twigs, built on poles. Below two small altars and eight with uprights, Support and equipping of the frames men. Two of them rise on each side the poles up to the scaffolding and hold in in the right hand a rod-like object; there appears to be a torch to light the scaffolding. The two of them below, the one ascending initially Those standing also appear to be holding a torch. Above each scaffolding there is a crescent moon with a star. =, 124.1. Valley. 17 The usual distribution of the large coins of Cyzicus with KOPH CRTEIPA to Faustina junior is not only through the similarity of the head, but also by the type of Finding this example of ours probably: it is at Cologne with a well-preserved large copper coin of Faustina senior found together; the time becomes thereby and determined by the good preservation of both pieces; there the head in Cyzicus is more like the younger Faustina, for whom the representation of the xog7 fits much better than for the older Faustina, That's how the daughter becomes, not the mother with the head of the god be meant. The reverse is already known from Caracalla (there without the altars) in Paris (Mionn. II 546, 216) and at Faustina-Kore (D. D. Müller [Diamilla] Revue archeol. IX, 1852 p. 339). The explanation given by the latter that it depicts tightrope walkers, in which art the Cyzikens, according to the message of a “geo- graphe gaulois anonymous” in Constantine's time very much out- drew, is in and of itself strange and is through

TE AT R.E EEE PEN suspects REFERENCES TEN PRESS Fri BURN GA TEERIEZEEEEENETIEN STEAM DENE EEE The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 18897. 13 the transcription of our copy invalidated'); it is a matter not about private gymnastic games, but about highly official ones Games of the Cyzikens, for the n K, which is undoubtedly MY ı« KYlıxmvov has to read and complete. A precise explanation Knowledgeable antiquarians can't tell me the whole scene to give; But the representation itself seems pretty clear to me- Literally: you build large, magnificent scaffoldings with tree-like branches filled, which provide a beautiful, festive sight during the day and are set on fire in the evening to mark the end of the festival; get the figures going up on the sloping support beam with torches the business of lighting. — Preservation and style Our newly acquired coin is beautiful, the details of the figures- Rich representation of the back is almost completely clear. Our only, very poorly preserved copy the extremely rare coin with the ideal head of Herodotus there is a particularly perfect one on the side of this head- To purchase a beautiful piece of beautiful style. Halicarnassus, Hadrian. AV. TPAIANOC AAPIANOC - Aı.... Head of the Emperor with wreath r. Rf. HPOAOTOC AAIKAPNACCERN Bust of Herodotus with long beard right. B.A. Dale, 18. A still completely unknown city in Asia Minor teaches us the following coin, a specimen that surfaced in Smyrna know which ones I was in the numismatics department a few months ago matic society discussed: Titacazus. AHMOC Unbearded Demos Head with Diadem and Ge- wall r. R/. TITAKAS FN2N Tyche standing 1st with Modius, the R. leaning on the rudder, in the L. Poor Cornucopia. Eg... Tall 1) Müller-Diamilla's remark, the ANTONEINIA on the coin of Caracalla with this type does not mean the games, but the city names ANTQNEINIANON, is correct, this nickname but the city was already known before Eckhel.

14 read Bu These probably date back to the late imperial period, the third century. coin belonging to it is, as can be seen in the current issue of magazine f. The following essays by Mr. Loebbecke are highlighted. goes, found in Lydia, between Sardis and Tralles, in Pyrgos. One city of Titakazo seems completely unknown, even the one mentioned Ordinary, characterless work gives us no secure basis. Mr. Loebbecke is inclined to consider the location of the discovery, However, I rather believe that the ones that sound the same or similar to us City names the fatherland of the coin guess let. We as such have first Tityassus in Pisidia, then sound still remembers the name of Titacazu: Kakoza, in the inscription from near Antioch in Pisidia (Ramsay, Journal of Hellenic “studies IV (1883) pp. 28 and 33; ‘the uncertain . ovvdol« (Kundoza?) ibid p. 28 and 33, and the Phrygian one Pepuza (at Hierocles, see Ramsay, the cities etc. of Phrygia, in the Journal of Hell. Stud. IV, the table and p. 404. — So belongs to the city Titakazos maybe to Pisidia or Phrygia; Hopefully an inscription will soon give us certainty. A second coin with TITAKAXHNR®N (AR. Horse) has Mr. Ramsay (Communicated to Mr. Prof. Mommsen) and considers the name to be identical to Tapassos (Sebastopolis Cariae) in Hierocles. — On our coin the zeta is safe. The following variety of phoenix seems to be still undescribed. Nician replicas of Athenian tetradrachms: Pallas head r. R/. Standing owl from the front, a little r., behind her, on Wings, crescent moon. In front of her crescent moon, upwards

The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 15 open, underneath lightning, on the right the Phoenician image font UA 7 and top left #4 AR. 9%. 16.27 grm. The reading does not seem to be ascertainable; pre- will beat me mrgn 7390, but actually only the n is the final letter, sure. The first letter is at all can't be seen exactly anymore. — The reading of the two The letters or characters on the left are unsafe because both are not completely preserved. The coin comes from Beirut, and Surely Syria or a neighboring region is the father land of these Phoenician imprints. Of the no less strange imitations athe- African silver coins from the South Arabian Homeritae, the Himyars, made our collection one of the highest significant acquisition: we received from Mr. Glaser, who South Arabia traveled has, fourteen Himjarian silver coins, underneath three imitations Athenian tetradrachms and one with Himjaric Stamp over-embossed 'tetradrachm from Athens. The remaining pieces are partly exact replicas smaller Athenian silver coins (drachmas), partly gradually ever more freely developing national types, initially with the owl as the back, but then with a barbarically designed had heads on each page and long Himjaric transcription. — So far there is only one in our collection piece of gold represented series of the coins of the Abyssinian Empire of Axum was represented by two gems of the collection Ponton d’Amecourt increased: King Aphilas. A®IMG BACIAEYC Bust of the king r. with jagged Crown and robe, scepter in the R., wreath-like from enclosed in two large ears of corn; above lunar sickle and point. Rf. AZWMITWN BICIAIMHAH Bust portrait (female?) with round cap, robe, in the R. a branch (?)

16 A.v. Sallet: holding, surrounded by the two ears of grain. Above moon sickle and point. =. 516, 112,608 Gem. (dal.. 1,218, Despite much careful work on Axumite coins (most recently by Drouin, Revue archeolog. 1882, Prideaux, Numismatic chronicle 1884 and Schlumberger, Revue numismatique 1886). Unfortunately, about the individual kings who influenced Greece as much as possible nothing historically certain has been identified; apparently the oldest King, who minted extremely carefully crafted gold coins Aphilas may have arrived around 300 AD or just a little later. add be. The BICIAIMHAH the back is unexplained; previous false explanations!) were based on erroneous reading, and now that the reading is completely secured, it has not yet been possible to find a safe interpretation of the word. The closest would be it to think of the king's wife, similar to the Nabathaean royal coins the heads of the wives, Chulda and Gemilath, appear, and how this generally occurs in Asia and Egyptian royal coins are not uncommon; who else The personality of the back could not be determined. divorce; the appearance of a half-length portrait on each side peculiar to the majority of Axumite royal coins. — Our example of the gold coin of Aphilas is certainly that most beautiful of the few known, the preservation is a complete one impeccable. Whether Aphilas is already a Christian, or how one because of that Crescent moon with a point (instead of the star) assumes that later replaced by a cross on the coins of the following rulers will (Num. Chron. l.c. p. 208), nor heath, is probably not certain to decide. The later ones Greek coins of the kings of Axum wear, like the very latest with Ethiopian legends, often Circumscriptions relating to Christianity: like that -FOEOY EYXAPICTIA on the coins of King Ochsas (Num. 1) E.g. B. the difficult to eradicate BICI AIMHAN, which is called ßaoı Aıun- av read and pointed to a “Subking Dimean”. It always says and definitely BICIAIMHAH.

The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 17 chron. 1884 p. 211) and the particularly common one, soon to be over the cross, soon over a half-length portrait standing: +TOYTO APECH TH X@PA, zoöro &g&on vi xaog, one of the Ethiopian coins the Axumites repeated in this language, probably referring to the cross nice transcription itself. Our second acquisition belongs in this series: King Ulzebas. -FOVASHBAL BALIAEVE bust with round cap and robe r. surrounded by the two ears of corn. R/. TOVTO APECH TH XwP\ around a from one Bust portrait surrounded by circles r. with cap and container wall; the base of the small circle picture is antique gold, hence the traces of ßaClAsVC, which are on another copy (Drouin 1st c. Plate XX, 8) find, not visible here. Eg. 4. Even the king Ulzebas (or like others, less true- apparently want to read, Thylzebas) is historically unknown, if There are also similar forms of names in the Ethiopian royal find lists (Drouin 1. e. p. 215). Anyway, he's like that still reasonably good style and the correct transcription proves that fairly early, probably soon after Aphilas. Our third Axumite coin acquired in 1879 is the often depicted and discussed one of the king “Nezana” NEZANA BALIAEVE. The back this coin (journal f£. Number VII, plate IV. Numism. Chron. 1884, plate X, 10). perhaps the name of the other coins is corrupted BAC--CIS--BAX-FACA well-known royal Bachasa, like Prideaux accepts; he but reads too clearly (l. e. p. 215), it says: ENIFHEA-FALAHENE, — The already very complete series in our collection noun coins received a nice enrichment through a gift gift from Prof. Dr. Erman, two coins of Nomus Saites, Hadrian, and one of Heracleopolites, Traian, a nice specimen of the large piece (FE. 10) with the standing female figure on the back. — Journal of Numismatics. XV, 2

18 A.v. Sallet: Among the few Roman coins we acquired have, the most important one is a very beautiful one that is still unknown and well-preserved medallion from M. Aurel, as Caesar, immediately before or soon after 900 AD City (147 AD). AVRELIVS CAE SAR AVG PIIF COSII Bust portrait with a weak beard right, with robe and armor, Medusa copt on the chest. Rj. Aeneas with the features of Antoninus Pius, with Laurel wreath, in armor, with veiled back head, l., sacrificing over a burning altar; in background temple; in front of him r. Temple servants wreathed, holding a large flat bowl on the right, another r. brings the pig as a sacrificial animal. Behind Aeneas the little Ascanius 1. with phry- gish cap and pedum. M.:11. deals 19, The beautifully grouped representation of the back is enriches the series of coins, mostly copper medallions Antoninus Pius on the occasion of the nine hundredth anniversary the city around the year 900 AD. St. coin left, and which ones contain scenes from the legendary prehistory of Rome; on the scene of the Paris medallion, which the landing des Aeneas and Ascanius and the discovery the sow with hers depicting thirty piglets (Fröhner, medallions Romains p. 59), Now follows the representation of our medallion: the solemn sacrifice Ration of the pig at the altar, all exactly according to Virgil’s words. The “litoreis ingens inventa sub ilicibus sus” Juno is sacrificed: quam pius Aeneas tibi enim, tibi maxima Juno, mactat sacra ferens et cum grege sistit ad aram.') Aeneas is wearing what, as far as I know, is new and on no one other of those beautiful representations from Rome's prehistory appears, the clear and unmistakable features of the emperor 1) Virg. Aen. VIII, 84. Z hey Fe Ai en

The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 18837. 19 Antoninus. It was obvious that the courtly art the pius Aeneas with the Emperor Pius and the, of course, already completely probably compare the grown crown prince M. Aurel with Ascanius liked. So our new medallion fills the dramatic sequence of the beautiful group pictures from Rome's prehistory with a such an interesting and artistically highly perfect representation. — Macrinus. IMPCMOPELSEVMACRINVS AVG D bust portrait with Wreath, short beard and paludamentum r. R/. FIDES MILITVM standing Fides from the front, his head r. turning, with two field signs. I, The collection did not yet have any gold coins from Macrinus; The copy of the rare piece is completely flawless. The other Roman coins are less important; from interest is a pretty one copper coin Constantine's des Big ones with VICTORIAE LATAE PRINC PERP and the beautiful one and clear monogram of Christ in the emperor's helmet: It's the same copy that I had already done earlier Negotiations of the numismatic society discussed in 1879 have. This one strange, in clear specimens very rare pieces are likely soon after the defeat of Maxentius (312 AD), but certainly before the open break Constantine's minted with Lieinius (323 AD), and the oldest us received official monuments of the Christian thums, those those belonging to the same time of the fellow Emperor Lieinius and his son join; from the former could me too a very nice piece in this series Buy Christian representations: 9*F

20 A.v. Sallet: IMPLICI NIVSAVG Bust portrait with decorated helmet and tank r. R/. VIRTVS EXERCIT, in the AQS section, in the SF field. Vexillum, in which we have two prisoners below. About the Vexillum Cross. Z.II. A third coin with these earliest Christian depictions positions, the clear monogram of Christ in the field Licinius the son already owned the collection. — So important the Christian symbols on Constantine's later coins of the big one also are, the most interesting monuments of this The very earliest traces of Christian cult remain immediately or a few years after the alleged miraculous Apparition before the Battle of Maxentius; the Christian representations positions the time of the everywhere and officially recognized Christianity is naturally interested in these first traces far after. — An important gift from Prof. Dr. Schweinfurth enriched us with fourteen complete and numerous fragmented clay molds of Roman copper coins, found in Medinet el Fajum (Arsinoe), by the emperors Lici- nius senior, Galerius Maximianus and Maximinus Daza. Under the medieval coins are numerous rare units, also Unica and unedirte pieces to highlight; that The oldest piece worth mentioning is: Otto the Great, Strasbourg. -PHOTTO REX (the RE as a monogram) PACIFICVS Bearded bust with diadem and robe |. Rf. HARGEN TINA CIVITAS (between the N and T there was probably a letter that was incorrectly inserted). Church building. RR. This one of the extremely few known specimens similar coins (Berstett, Münzgesch. d. Els. p. 53 No. 129,

eleven ES SS — R.E ELISE HE ee a Ss The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 21 as Otto III. Dannenberg No. 906. Angel Teaching, num. de T’Als. p. 156, 49-51) very different copy from excellent Work is especially for this time and for this genre Portrait of Otto, which can be called artistic in terms of monuments the big one's strange; it perhaps even surpasses in its delicateness- ity the beautiful heads of the emperor on the coins des Bishop Udo of Strasbourg, but is despite the common Mint location very different from this one. Much more raw and complete no longer treated individually is the image of the emperor the other Strasbourg denarii with SCA MARIA, From the auction of the excellent Robert collection in In Paris we acquired two rare pieces: Gerhard of Alsace, Duke of Lorraine 1048-1070. *+SDEO - AT-S Very raw head of the h. Deodatus 1. Rf. TV -SVASTAA church building. AR. (Catalogue Robert 1176). Bishop Bruno of Toul 1026-1048. ."VMO CEPS Cross. Rf. LEV - ChaCIV church building. AR. (Catalogue Robert 947). Bruno, Archbishop of Trier 1102-1124. Gold denarius. BRVNO ARCHIEPS Bust of the Archbishop 1st, the R. raising, with headband, in the L. the Pedum. R/. Unbearded saint with long robe right, in the R. not entirely clear objects; they are most true- apparently the keys and the saint is Peter. There does not appear to be any inscription on the back. N 0.73 grm.

22 A.v. Sallet: This unique piece of the Garthe collection (auction catalog Garthe No. 5643) is an undoubted gold coin from the 12th century. Century of great importance. None of the silver coins of the archbishop agrees with the stamp of the gold piece one, we have it So not with a gold discount, but with a real gold coin to do. The work is, as with most of the Archbishop's silver coins, one very exquisitely fine. The saint of the back is self-sufficient obviously not “Hubertus with a deer in his hand”, like in Garthe’s Oatalog. Already the analogy of numerous other coins of Bruno's with the inscription secured un- bearded, Peter holding two keys (Dannenberg 489. 490) and more numerous other Trier denarii by Bruno and other archbishops with the hands of Peter with the two Keying would have to lead to the interpretation of the saint. Totally There's no doubt that it still isn't, but I think it's quite likely Secure the two keys with their beards turned outwards to recognize. Maybe not a coin, but a piece of jewelry or a piece of a device is the following Bracteate of King Henry III or more likely IV (Heinrich HI, King: 1039—1046. Henry IV, King: 1056 — 1084). TREX HINRICVS Bearded crowned bust of front. ZA. 23 millimeters. This very beautifully crafted piece of high relief shows one the denarii from Goslar and Dortmund very similar Head, which is represented by those denarii as Henry III or

TE EEE EZ EEZEEETNEG he us u BE GE EEE The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 23 IV is determined. Surely the work is equal to these kings- early, but we must not think of a bracteate imprint in that one Thinking of time - in copper, at that; At least it is one Type of jewelry or ornament. Quite demonstrate similar technology the four large, bracteate-like copper medallions, which... attached to a liturgical basin with the inscription OTTO and HIERVSALEM VISIO PACIS around a crowned bearded king picture in half the body, from the front. This liturgical copper basin, one because of its beautiful engraved Romanesque arabesques and four applied strips of silver sheet as an eminent rarity hey excellent piece early medieval metalwork, which was found near Dorpat and here by the owner was shown around, is in any case not from the time of one of the Ottonen, but belongs, like that of Dortmund and Goslar Style of the bracteates similar to the denarii of Henry III and IV kind medallions proves equal to ours Copper bracteates Henry III or IV of the time of these kings, i.e. about that Period from 1050-1100. Unfortunately, this liturgical event failed bowl for a Berlin museum to acquire; the owner sold her, after he get enough information here about the meaning and age of the piece, to the society Department of Antiquity in Riga. Our bracteates received a significant enrichment the 12th century; What is most important is that from me formerly in the Journal of Numismatics and in the Numismatic Society briefly discussed in Stacke's German History I p. 433 depicted Unicum, the one out dem Odenwald find beautiful bracteate from

24 A.v. Sallet: Friedrich Barbarossa, with bearded portrait. FRIDERICVS IMMPERATO the emperor with mustache, crowned, sitting on a field chair with animal heads, in the R. Scepter with lily or leaf (similar to the the Lords of Minzenberg), in the L. Imperial Orb. AR. 27 millimeters. Frederick Barbarossa is on all of his other coins always beardless (the Aachen denarii with beards are well known) Lich Frederick II), on the sparsely present other monuments that certainly represent the emperor: the Seal (see illustration a magnificent one golden Siegels in Auction catalog of the Gre6au bronzes etc. Collection Gre6au, Paris 1885, No. 1317, a wax seal under the document in Stacke's German History I after p. 448), the relief in which window the abbey St. Zeno (Fig. Stacke I, 457)') and the Miniature in the provost's book given to the emperor Heinrich (Fig. Stacke I after page 464), he wears a short, light, reddish beard on the miniature. On that one Seal that gives the Odenwald Bracteate its origin In terms of place and time, it may be closest to the seal of the city Gelnhausen (Collection Charvet Plate V, 17) is him unbearded. Our bracteate is therefore the only example of one bearded Barbarossa on coins and because of the deviation This beard differs from that of the rest of the portraits of the emperor not without interest. Of course you will see this depiction of the coin not be allowed to attach too much weight; the emperor likes it too 1) The relief on the portal of the cathedral in Freising (Fig. Stacke's German business I. 436) is e.g. Th. spoiled by overwork, therefore unreliable. i

LTE EEE EEE M.E a N OLDER ZT The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 18837. 25 once wore a mustache according to the fashion of his time have, like Albrecht the Bear on the bracteates, prove it the remaining Odenwald bracteates, which are certainly contemporaneous, with un- bearded emperor, that one points to the diplomatic accuracy in gave no weight to the depiction of such facial decorations. In any case, the larger ones mentioned have much greater authority Representations of the emperor, the reliefs, miniatures and seals with the weak one (reddish) full beard. That's on modern Emperor Barbarossa's long-flowing beard, brought back from his handicrafts a fantasy is proven by these latter monuments enough. Otto the Rich of Meissen 1156-1190. OTTO NACHIO + SRISHENSIS . SRAR Bust portrait from the front with helmet and armor, in the R. sword, in the L. flag. Ar. 28 millimeters. This one only in this one only surviving copy has recently been published by Dannenberg in v. Höfken's archive. f. Brak teatology I p. 136 was announced. I would like instead MACHIO (for marchio) recognize the even more flawed NACHIO. The coin is of very fine workmanship and because of its... Other bracteates of this mint have a completely different shape strange. Also the following from bracteates acquired from us Dannenberg (l. c. p. 145) recently announced: Ulrich, Count of Wettin. 1187--1206. ODALR ICVSCO the helmeted armored Count standing, from the front, in the R. sword, in the L. flag AR. 23 millimeters. Undefined women's abbey, style of the Odenwald find. Seated abbess on an arch, in the R. Lilies scepter, holding the book with the L., from the front, turned a little after 1. AR. 25 millimeters. Plate II. This probably still completely unknown piece from outside neat Beautiful work certainly belongs to his style

26 A.v. Sallet: so-called Odenwald bracteate series on, out the last one decades of the 12th century; so it likes close to Frankfurt or Gelnhausen shaped be. Which abbey? the Coin belongs cannot be determined at the moment. Indefinite coiner, maybe Bernhard U from Saxony. Prince on horseback r. blasting, the R. with raised Index finger, under triple bow; right and left A head (probably warlike) appears above the arch Companion of the Prince). R. 34 millimeters. Table U. This very well crafted coin bears a resemblance to the beautiful Quedlinburg bracteates from the Freckleben find. The View from my colleague Dr. Menadier that we here perhaps an influence of Bernhard of Saxony (1180-1212) can be recognized would have, is shown by the great similarity of the rider's head with Bernhard's profile head on the frequent bracteates of the Trebitz find (hereditary stone, d. Coin case v. Trebitz p. 5 No. 1) quite likely. Some previously unknown variants of bracteates Bernhard's of Saxony contained the find from Ilmersdorf Dahme, who acquired most of our collection could. — It deserves mention as a great rarity two silver ones Ingots with stamped small stamps, found at Staro- Akhteebinsk, northern border of Astrakhan Governorate, in one Mongol grave (see about this find: Virchow, Negotiations the Berliner Society for Anthropology, November 1884 p. 487). These pieces belong in the series of larger numbers received medieval Russian valuables, according to their weight: Grivna, ruble or poltina, half way called ruble. Similar pieces, some with Russian in- Fonts and individual letters in the stamps have charac- doir (Apercu sur les monn. russes 1836, I p. 85-101) in detail

ee a a te ICE CREAM EEE TIETELITEWNIEETE EDDIE A n De ENITT a no { } N N The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 27 discussed and pictured (Plate ID), other pieces of the type: Dolgoroucky in the Memoires de la societ & ete. de St. Pötersb. 1851, Vol. V p. 162 and Dr. Buchholtz in the same magazine 1852, Vol. IV p. 436. — The strange representations our two copies: Angel holding a lance (?) and striding male figure next to a lion, including one cross-like rosette formed from four human heads and a unrecognizable stamp, deserve an illustration. The weight of the The piece with the angel is 94.27 grm., that of the other 91.55. The most important of the oriental coins is the gigliato of the Turkoman prince Urchän-beg (1333), minted in Palatia, dem old Myus in Caria, on the Maeander. It's this that Specimen from the Montenuovo collection, which was first Karabacek interpreted and read correctly (Numismat. Zeitschr. Wien IX, p. 200, 1877). These and similar silver coins of Muhammadan Princes in Asia Minor are replicas of the Gigliati mentioned King Robert’s pennies from Naples, with seated prince and one big ones Cross decorated with lilies. The surrounding fonts of the princes of Asia Minor are Latin, but in strange oriental expression, e.g. B. stands up the Gigliati of Ssaru-chan of Lydia, minted in Magnesia: moneta que fit in Manglasia de voluntate Sareani dni dieti loci or else loci (Friedlaender in the contributions to the older one coin box 1851 p. 53). The inscription of the Urchan coin is:

28 A.v. Sallet: hanc monetam fierit (for fieri fecit or jussit) urcnli mandavit dominus palatie. The letters are almost all correct, except that the d is sometimes correct like 0, the m like n, the e like c. Karabacek’s reading of the prince's name: “Urenli”, where the li instead of bi, namely = at stands (Karabacek 1. c. p. 201), is from Schlumberger (Porient latin p. 487 f.) based on the three copies in the British Museum - the only ones known apart from ours - in “Urcanie”, so the one after the ruler educated (of course in the genitive here completely ungrammatical and abrupt) country names, improved. On our copy it says, like Kara- bacek rightly emphasizes, certainly not the country name “Urcanie”, but the London pieces have the e clearly. — Our collection of medieval seal stamps was... some good pieces have been propagated, including a very nice large one (57 millim.), brass stamp of the seal of the city of Bütow in Pomerania, from the fourteenth century: +S’CIVISORCISK BVGOVIE city gate with two towers and almost all of it Wall, above the gate the German order shield with the cross; the whole representation is of beautiful work. Our Renais- sance medals, especially the German ones, including mine Almost all of the beautiful works that were previously discussed in more detail by Tobias Wolf in Blei (Zeitschr. f. Num. IX, p. 193), which many Medal of the Nuremberg, easily made by the sitter himself Berg artist Johann Maslitzer, the magnificent pieces of Hagenauer with the bust portrait Margarethe Frundsberg and by M. Steffli and others earlier by me in the magazine for Numismatics pictured beautiful Originals (XI, p. 123). Two copper Nuremberg medals in one condition and one Beauty without equal, of a wonderful nut brown color and The finest engraving deserves an illustration (Plate I); the first Medal represents the Nuremberg Christoph Scheurl and his wife. -FCHR : SCHEWRL -I-V-D- NATVS X1. NOV-M-

GREEGEEEEESEHEEREREE EEE LAKE The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. 29 CCCCLXXXI-F-F (fieri fecit) MDXXXII Bust portrait with wire hood, in fur, r. R/. CHATER - D - (Doctor) SCHEWRLIN - XXXXL - IAR- ALT-M-D-XXXIO Bust portrait with hat 1. /R. 42 millimeters. Christoph Scheurl is one of the most important Nuremberg residents Humanists and statesmen, professor of rights in Witten- berg, Imperial and Electoral Saxon Council, historical and political writer, Nuremberg envoy to August burger Reichstag 1530, a friend of the reformers and the most important Artist of his time: Dürer and Cranach. We owe his small work: Commentarius de vita et obitu cathedral. Antonii Kress (Nuremberg 1515) interesting after- judge Dürer's relationships with the Schongauer brothers in Colmar and his stay in Bologna (Thausing, Dürer p. 75 and 271£.); a second important one for art history The writing is his Latin panegyric on Cranach (1509; see Heller, Cranach p. 28 fi.), which in a strange rhetorical manner from Cranach's art contains all sorts of anecdotes recreated from antiquity as evidence of his great mastery, e.g. B. that he the Duke (later Elector) Johann painted so faithfully have, that the citizens which the picture through the open window of the castle, respectfully took off their hats, because they Duke himself believed that the hunting dogs were painting barked wildly, and similar simple stories that prove how naive even the highly educated contemporaries were about the purpose and value of art in its greatest heyday, The second medal (Plate II) from Christoph Fürer. CRISTOF - FVRER - OLD: XXXXVI Bust portrait in Tank, with feathered hat, r. Rf. NVRMBERGISCHER - HAUBTMAN - IM: ANDERN- TRAIN - GEIN - WIRTTENBERG -M-D- XXVl. Z&. 40.5 millimeters.

30 A.v. Sallet: from something stricter Styler than that of Scheurl and maybe the greatest work of Nuremberg medal art, also represents if a respected Nuremberg statesman and warlord represents. Christopher Fürer, born 1479, died 1537, was Imperial councilor and commander of the Nuremberg troops. Among the small number of Italian Renaissance medals A very beautiful lead original deserves mention the big one cast medal on Philip II, still as an infant, from Leo Leoni (Armand I, p. 164 no. 11), with Hercules at the crossroads on the reverse, a work of great beauty, with magnificent modelled, richly decorated Tank and robe ge- decorated bust of the infant; the back is despite the the affected position of the figures is a masterpiece of leadership; The small, recessed inscriptions are very clear VOLVP VIR ERCV and the master's designation LEO F TAS TV READ N) One welcome enrichment was the collection a good original of the cast medal Sixtus IV, by Gambello. SIXTVS - III - PONTIFEX MAXIMVS- VRBE- RE- SAVRATA bust with tiara left, deepened below: 1475. R/. deepened in the section: OPVS VICTORIS CAMELIO VI (her, instead of the VEneti on other copies). The Pope, enthroned, gives a large assembly Blessing in front of a palace, next to him Cardinal reading a sheet. ZE. 52 millimeters. This often described medal (Armand I, 116 No. 9. Fried- countries p. 94) otherwise has the raised inscription on the back OP - VICTORIS CAMELIO VE, she is on our copy deepened and comfortable not at the same time, what the erroneous VI instead of VE seems to prove; maybe the one on the Front The year 1475 is later on in depth Undoubtedly genuine medal must have been set, the forms the numbers are very modern. But it is strange that

j M ar “ " j The King's Acquisitions Coin cabinets until April 1, 1857. 31 the year is completely correct!), and even to us so far The back is still not correctly interpreted. clarifies. One has the scene the back either just without further explanation described or as relating to the visit foreign prince to the Pope, Christian I of Denmark, who 1474, and Ferdinand of Naples, who the following year of the jubilee year came to Rome because of?), interpreted; one would have but can easily go a little step further and The whole reason can be seen from the inscription on the front and find out more accurate and correct explanation of the medal can: “Sixtus IIII pontifex maximus urbe restaurata” is written around the Pope's head; we read about this through the Pope Sixtus made Restoration the city of Rome in bapt. Platina historia de vitis pontificum Romanorum usque ad Paulum II et longe quam antea Onuphrii Panvinii accessione nune illustrior reddita p. 331, 1st column (in the Cologne edition of 1626): “nam Urbem ante omnia a situ et coeno vindicavit, viis Urbis primum munitis et lateribus stratis, porticibusque et moenianis disjectis quae vias deformes et inconeinnas redditas obscurabant... quum vero annus Jubilaeus instaret, Quem... anno salutis MCDLXXV celebratory, animal ad re- ligiosa loca et peregrinae multitudini ad Urbem ven- turae opportuna instauranda adjiciens etc.* So we have the transcription celebrating the restaurata urbs the front with the year of the anniversary, 1475, and on the back the Pope blessing a devout crowd, next to which a cardinal reads a document: the declaration It's self-evident now, it's the one from the Pope at the jubilee blessed inflowing “peregrina multitudo”; the cardinal reads 1) She likes it, like the inscription on the back, maybe on another, the maker of the recessed inscription on our copy copy that was at hand, maybe but she is according to Venuti's interpretation of the reverse, which also states the year 1475, been made (see below). 2) Möhsen, description of a Berlin medal collection I, 237. The interpretation comes from Venuti.

32 A.v. Sallet: the indulgences traditionally announced on jubilees from the document. Among the few coins from more recent times is the extremely rare ducat of Count Camillo of Correggio (resigned in 1598): CAMILLE - AVST: CORR - COMES the standing count in tank r. R/. ORIG - INCL - SIGNVM - INSIGNE that crowned four-field coat of arms. "N. A very special one received a pleasant enrichment Brandenburg-Prussian section of the collection by a Gift from Sr. Kais. etc. Your Highness of the Crown Prince: two like it still seems completely unknown Brandenburg double ducats from the beginning of the 17th century. Joachim Friedrich 1597-1608. IOACHIM - FRIDE :D-G- MARC-BRA - SACR to End of the Imperial Orb font. The standing elector in half the body right. with scepter, d. L. on the sword. R/. ROMA-IMPE-ARCHICAME-ET-ELECTOR. coat of arms between the number 16 04 below on each side an asterisk. N 32 millimeters. 6.94 gr. This piece does not yet appear anywhere as a double ducat to be described; However, it is not an independent one for them Gold stamping alone cut stamp, but also in silver as a quarter thaler been pronounced. By Joachim Friedrich were apart from the “Portu-

x 5 Y " # X & R EEE EEE NO name BUT he well The King's Acquisitions Coin collections until April 1, 1887. 33 galöser'' (in our and the Dresden collection, see magazine. f. Numism. IV, p. 321) no major gold at all pieces, but only simple ducats are known. Georg Wilhelm 1619--1640. By. GEOR:-WI-V-G-G-MA -Z-BRA-D-HEI. The standing armored ones Elector in half the body r., in the R. Feldherrnstab, the L. to the one in front of him standing helmet. R-RERTZC-V-CHVRF-I-P-Z.G-C-B-S-P-D O-W-A-I (it is the incomplete titula ture: des hey. r(öm) r(eichs) ertze(ämmerer) and(nd) churf. i(n) p(reussen) z(u) g(ülich) c(leve) b(erg) s(tettin) p(ummern) d(er) c(assuben) w(enden) a(uch) i(n), then it must follow: “Silesia etc. Duke”). Scepter with the Kurhut between 16%0 (for 1620); All around there are eight coats of arms placed in a circle. Below L M (the mint master Liborius Müller). N 32 millimeters. 6.96 grm. This double ducat - here it is not a discount either stamp intended for silver, but only for gold coinage cut stamp - is still completely unknown and is of beautiful and careful execution and impeccable preservation. Another brilliant addition our Brandenburg The gian series is the one shown on plate II, which is magnificently enameled Gold medal from the same elector. George Wilhelm. GEORG WILH-D-G-MAR- BR-S-R-I- ARCHIC- Journal of Numismatics. XV. 3

34 A.v. Sallet: The acquisitions of d. Royal Coin cabinets until April 1, 1887. E:-ELEC-BORV. Bust portrait in armor with field tie r.; under arm section 1621. Ry/. IVL-CLI-MON - POM-ET -I-SIL-DVX-B-N-P R-CO.-MAR-E-RAVENSB-DNS-RAVEN. coat of arms with spa hat. The inscription from “et” to: “et in silesia dux burggravius norimbergensis princeps rugianorum comes marchiae et ravensberg dominus (in) ravenstein.” With decorated edge, on three chains, with an eagle at the top held together. A This well-crafted and well-preserved gem is on sale tasteful way with goldsmith work decorated. The one with The tank, decorated with beautiful ornaments, is enamelled in blue Edge white and black, the eagle on the front is red, the middle shield with the scepter blue (the Brandenburg one Adler), the eagle on the back is black enamel (the Prussian eagles); the middle field of the large coat of arms with the Course scepter blue. Instead of the ones normally inserted into the jewels gold-set stones appear here polished according to manner Stone-shaped gold ornaments, one is lost; otherwise is except for a small damage to the edge and the enamel of the eagle the preservation of the magnificent, in the most beautiful colors shiny piece a very good one. This beautiful gem ranks is on a par with what has already been described and illustrated many times. This is a series of ours that come from old Electoral property similar medals decorated with enamel, pearls and precious stones Brandenburg prince, is artistically one of the best products of this type and is characterized by fine taste and full execution of the arabesques and the enameled parts; it came to our collection from Hungary, and it is not un- probably that Georg Wilhelm's sister Katharina, the Bethlen Gabor's wife, the piece from Berlin with seven- brought as guarantor or that it to her husband or someone else distinguished person in her environment from the elector at that time may be awarded. A.v. Sallet.

ET a EEE BED, EN Greek coins from my collection III. Plate III. Campania. Neapolis. ZH: 21:m. Af. NEO(TO)A(IT2N) Apollo head with laurel wreath |, behind ©. Ry. N... ON. TIN. Dolphin 1. below club. This well-known and widely discussed coin was previously long allocated to various Italian cities, most recently quite lich generally Aurunca in Campania. (Cat. of Brit. Mus. Italy, p. 75; Garrucei, Mon. dell’Italia ant. p. 78 fg. tab. 83. 2-4. On mine, described above, specimens, that something better than the other existing ones, I now have in front of the Apollo head of the Z/. the letters NEO..A.... found that probably only complement NEOMOAIT2N let. This reveals the previously unrecognized true homeland of this piece, the Campanian Neapolis, and in the Oscan Writing of the Z/., in which the city name was previously assumed, that of an official can be seen. I read this: NW... DIN (or maybe, since the third Letter not very clear is: W...MMN) ZUHNMMNNN, so “akd..m (or akk..m) makkiis”. The accuracy of this Readings like the NEO..A... is given to me by the gentlemen of Sallet and Dressel in Berlin confirmed that they had the goodness Coin should also be examined. The only thing that remains uncertain is this the middle of the first Oscan word. 3*F

36 Arthur Löbbecke: The use of the Eastern Kish alongside the Greek language in Campanian Neapolis is new and of great interest. The so-called “Aurunca” but that only erroneous readings of this coin lose its existence thanks, should be removed from the list of Italian cities again. Bruttium. AR. 20 m. Gr. 4.73. Hf. Winged Nike head |. RF. BPETTIRN Naked, juvenile Pan with horns r. standing with the right hand wreathed and in holding a spear on the left. The robe is about his left arm thrown and sitting in front of him a hunting dog looking around. Pearl circle. Plate Il, 1. The figure of the reverse of these and the Bruttian drachmas A young Pan is certainly of the same kind (Garrucei p. 183, 13-14) and not, as is often assumed, Dionysus. (Mion. I 180. 762. Cat. of Brit. Mus. Italy p. 321, 15 etc.) On the previous lying coin he clearly carries a spear and this as well the dog leaves no doubt besides the horns, that Pan is meant. Similar depictions can be found on coins from Pandosia, at the feet of a resting, spear-bearing Pan lie there also one or more dogs. Sicilia. Catana. AR. 15 m. Gr. 4.20. Hf. Head of a bearded, bald Silenus with ears v. v. Rf. WRIAWMATAN Apollo's head 1. on his neck >, behind it a bay leaf. Nat. 11], :2, A previously unknown variety of these rare drachmas. Whether in the lying A on the neck of Apollo's head

f i h j j MARRIED SED nn > Greek coins from my collection III. 37 The beginning of an artist's name can be recognized, or perhaps only the one to ATIOAA®N, as on individual didrachms from Metapont, those on the neck section of an Apollo head AT'OA, remains uncertain, I would like to give preference to the former interpretation. Syracusae. Br 20m, Gr. 1687. Hf. ZYRAKOZION Female head with collar 1. that Hair falling long at the back and gathered at the bottom tied, surrounded by four dolphins. Rf. Quadriga in step r. Nike floating above. Plate II, 3. This ancient tetradrachm from the beginning of the fifth century is because of the left-facing female white head remarkable, the one on Syracuse coins otherwise only appears over a hundred years later. The peculiar style of his hair is similar to that of some Aphrodite heads on old Knidian silver coins (shown e.g. Ztschr. f. Num. IX, p. 141). Moesia Superior, Viminacium. A 36 m. size 55.90. Hf. IMP. CAES-M ANT - GORDIANVS (AVG) half-length portrait of Gordianus Pius with laurel wreath and robes. R/. P-M-S-CO—L.VIM. Female figure in long Chiton 1. standing. To her left a bull, to her right a lion. In section AN II. A piece of unusual thickness and therefore high Weight, which is that of the ordinary Viminacian large bronzes of the Gordian 3 to 4 times higher. (Well preserved Example this genus in m. $. weigh 14.60-22 gr.). Of such medallions founded by Gordian I only know of one other Roman colony. In Num. Chronicle 1864. p. 158 is namely, the correct reading

38 Arthur Löbbecke: assuming the same, one like this from Trebon. Gallus and Volusian described. It shows one otherwise in Viminacium un- common type of the reverse, the emperor on horseback from Nike wreathed and lion and bull in the section. Thrace. Apollonia? Ow. .22: m. Ff. Apollo head with laurel wreath right, hair in back tied in a knot. RF AMOAARN(OZ) IATPO(Y) Apollon Iatros v. v. standing in the left bow and in the right one long laurel branch. The home of these variously published (Hann. N. No. 1870, p. 19.2; Ztschr. f. Number V 108. XII 319; Bulletin de Corr. Hellen. II 509. Plate XXIV. 2) previously for Asia Minor I now believe I have found the coin held in Thrace. It shows an extraordinary similarity to the knew bronze coins from Mesembria: Hf. Female head with diadem right. R/. MEXAM Pallas Promachos 1. BPIANDN. The shape of the plantain that is too flattened towards the edge and the yellow color of the bronze match exactly agree, plus the same work in the treatment of the head, the writing, etc., so that the minting place of the two Coins should not be found far from each other. Just a few miles from Mesembria, on the south side of the Today's Gulf of Burgas was where Thracian Apollonia lay and I would like to assign the coin to this city. From Milesians founded and soon achieved great prosperity, it was founded in 73 BC. BC conquered and plundered by the Romans without later falling under them regain the former meaning. It had a boasted temples with a colossal statue of Apollo, the Lucullus brought to the Capitol in Rome.

Greek coins from my IH collection. 39 Our coin shows Apollo types on both sides and is in the Apollon Iatros on the back, perhaps a copy of the same mentioned statue. A row of small silver coins from the fifth century with lion's scalp and Af! or APOA in a recessed square have so far been the Apollonia above attributed. Mr. Chr. Giel (Small contributions to the ancient Num. South Russia p. 23), however, now gives rise to this from frequent nearby from Kerch finds made after Panticapaeum, the maybe first the names Apollonia led. The bronze coin discussed is much younger, I want them between 150 and 73 BC BC, and probably before the shaped by the Roman conquest. Trajana Augusta. 2. LI. Hy. KPICTIEINA -CEBACTH Bust portrait the Crispina with Garment r. Rf. (AY)FOYCTHC - TPAIANH(C) Three standing nymphs in a long chiton, the middle one has the first hand lifted, the other two each hold a vessel. Behind them are tree branches. Plate III, 4. Fouard wrote in the Bulletin de Corr. Hellenique (VI, pp. 177-79) shown that between Trajanopolis and Trajana Augusta should be distinguished. The former was at the mouth of the Hebros, the latter be that which was called Ergissa before Trajan, today's Eski Zaghra (Old Zagora). The coins of Trajanopolis bear the inscriptions TPA- IANOTIOAITRQN or TPAIANOTIOAEITRN partly also ab- shortens, whereas those with AYFOYCTHC - TPAIANHC all Trajana belong to Augusta. I am grateful for the reference to Fouard's article above Messages from my friend Imhoof.

Arthur Löbbecke: Macedonia. Philip II 323-317 BC BC AR. 18 m. Gr. 2.50. (subaerate?) If. Unbearded head of Heracles with lion skin right. Kf. ®INTITIOY Youthful, unbearded Zeus Aötophoros l. sitting, half moon in front of him. Tat. IH, 5. I have so far seen the figure of a youthful, unbearded Zeus. neither on Alexander the Great's coins nor on any other coins Philip the Third found. The one above maybe fed Drachma is of delicate workmanship and not overgrown. Acarnania. Alyzia. a» 25 m. Gr. 858. Zf. ANYIAIQN Pallas head r. behind it a combination rolled snake. kf. Flying Pegasus r. including A. A new symbol the rare Pegasos staters this one city. On this occasion I note that three copies m. S. of the bronze coin: Alf. Heracles head Fe/. ANYIAIQN Club, bow and quiver that came to me from Acarnania are overprinted, all of them on the well-known Z# Philipp’s II or III: Alf. Apollo head. R/. ®IAITITIOY Rider. Stratus. 2 21m, size 8.45, Hf. zTPATIQN Pallas head r. behind it a small, bear- tiger Achelous head 1. R/. Flying Pegasus 1. Plate .III, 6.

Greek coins from my collection III. 41 This one, as far as I know, only silver stater from Stratos with Corinthian types I received from Sicily, along with a larger number those of Corinth, Ambracia, Argos and Anaktorion, as part of a find made there. Stratos is therefore included in the number of mints. who, following the example of Corinth, struck Pegasus staters. (See Imhoof-Blumer, The coins of Acarnania. Vienna number Marked X, p. 5 and 156.) Phoeis. Ar. 20: m. .,Gr, 4.76. Hf. Apollo head with laurel wreath r. R/f. Four-string lyre between ®—2 in a laurel wreaths. Far III: 7. The above drachma, the largest piece of silver known to date Phocian is one of the youngest silver coins of the same and around the middle of the fourth century B.C. BC. It's fine the double piece for the half-dragons: Z/. Bull's head, R/. Apollo head with small lyre behind it. In the Berlin Cabinet located yourself one of those described Similar drachma (size 4.77 perforated) but of more beautiful workmanship and the lyre with seven strings. Bithynia. Nicaea. E.g. 30 m. Hf. ®AYLTEINA-CEBA(ETH) Head of the younger Faustina r. R/. NIKAIEQRN Pallas with spear and patera 1. standing, In front of her there is an olive tree with a snake and an owl in between sitting on a cippus. Plate III, 8. The representation of the R/. seems to me to be a copy of the same one appearing on Athenian copper coins, as well a coin from this city with the image of Lucius Verus (Mion.

42 Arthur Löbbecke: II, 455. 240), whose R/. Pallas sitting in front of the olive tree, occurs in the same way in Athens. Mysia. Cyzicus. A 26 Im. Hf. AY-K-Al.M. AYP. KOMMOAOC Bust of Com- mode with laurel wreath and robe r. Rj. KYZIKHNDN -NEOK Shepherd sitting to the right one Milking goat looking around, under this one Container for collecting the milk. In the background a tree. Plate II, 9. This small scene occurs more frequently on Cycian coins before, I have the above one here for the sake of its beautiful preservation recorded. Troas. Alexandria. 2) m. Or. 3.1. Hf. laurel wreathed head of Apollo |. Rf. AMIOMRNOZ-IMIBERZ Apollo Smintheusr. striding, before him ZKH (228) behind AP. In section ANEZANAPERN...IKKIT.. A drachma of the year 221 with the magistrate's Imhoof has the name HPOAIKOY in this document II, p. 305 announced. 21 m. Hf. ... (MAC)RINVS-AVG Bust of Macrinus with Laurel wreath and robe r. Rf. (COL-ALE)XAN - AVG-TRO Apollo r. hastily searches to take hold of Daphne standing in front of him Includes laurel tree. Plate II, 11.

Greek coins from my collection Ill. 43 Friedlaender has the same myth on a coin Carian Apollonia proven (Ztschr. f. Num. VII, p. 218), Daphne is shown kneeling there. Ilium. ZW. 15m. Hf. AN: KAl-M- ANT . (TOPAIA)NOC - CEB bust portrait of Gordianus Pius with laurel wreath and robe r. R/. INIEQN Paris]. sitting in the raised hand apple, in front of him stand the three goddesses, ahead Aphrodite with bare upper body, in the middle Pallas, then Hera. A tree on the left: Plate II, 12. Representations of the Paris Judgment can also be found on coins of Tarsos (Mion. III, 640. 513), Scepsis (Ztschr. f. Num. X, 155 and Imhoof Collection) and the Egyptian Alexandria (Millin, Mythology Gallery. II, plate CLI, 538), to which Ilion now joins. lonia. Ä Neapolis. 1).28. 21: wed Hy. M: AYPHAIOC......KAICAP Copy of M. Aurelius r. RF AYPHNER2N - NEATIONITRN Statue of the Ephesians Artemis. This coin confirmed Imhoof's conjecture, that on AYP, which appears abbreviated in other parts of this city. mean the nickname Aöonkıe. (Imhoof-Blumer, Monn. grecq. p. 294.) I can also add the following to the small series of coins add: 2) 2. 35 m. Hf. ANT-K-M. AYP :- CEOYH : ANEZANAPOC Bust portrait of Alexander Severus with laurel wreath and gift wall r. Rf. EM - P- AYP - AIONYCIOY - TOY : SHNNNOC Ver- veiled Tyche with patera and staff 1. standing, forward

Arthur Löbbecke: her standing Zeus Nikephoros with scepter l. To whose feet an eagle. In the AYP section - NEA TIONEITON. (In trade.) 3) 01/31/50. m, Hf. ANT-K-10Y - OYH -MAIIMOC - CAL Bust portrait des Maximus with laurel wreath and robe r. Rf. EM - F-AYP- AIONYCIOY-B Statue of the Ephesian Artemis in a four-columned temple. In section AYP - NEATIONITES. 30 m. Hf. ANT-K:T-OYIB- OYOAOYCIANOC D bust portrait des Volusianus with laurel wreath and robe to the right. RF ETI - KANAIAOY - TP- T-A: NEATIONEITRN Pallas with shield and spear 1. standing. 30 m. Hf/. As before. Rf. EM - KANAIAOY- P: TO - A - NEATIOAEITRN Similar the previous one. A coin already bears the name of Toauuerev Kavdıdos of Gordianus Pius in m. S. (Ztschr. f. Num. X, p. 78. 29), on the above he is holding his office for the fourth time, he it has therefore held it for at least eight years. Jiovvoos, to second time Torumersvs under Maximus, divided, as No. 2 shows this, previously under Alexander Severus Office with Zyvov. Caria. Gordiutichos. ZE. 16 m. Alf. Zeus head with laurel wreath r. the hair in long Curls falling down. RF FOPAIO - TEIXIT2(N) Veiled ones Aphrodite r. standing, both hands outstretched. Plate II, 14.

Greek coins from my collection III. 45 The city of Gordiutichos in Caria, whose first coin was here is available, among the ancient writers only by Stephen Byzantium. and Livy (XXXVIII, 13) mentioned, as Mr Pro- professor Usener in Bonn, whom I thank for his kind regards. I would like to thank you for your communication. The location of the city in Caria between Antioch on the meander and Taba, three days' walk from the latter, emerges from the route of Livius, which belongs to the city a. a. O. occasionally of the military campaign of the Consul Cn. Manlius mentioned against the GalloGraecs (565 AD - 189 BC). It it says: “Inde (sc. Antioch) ad Gordiutichos, quod vocant, processum est, ex eo loco ad Tabas tertiis castris perventum.” The position with Stephanus Byz. reads: Toodiov siyog, nolıs .... Midov xrıoue tod naıdog Toodiov 6 moAiıns Togdıorsıyieng. Here should so after no4ıs (Kagias) to be supplemented. A planting city of the Gordiuteichites was Harpalykeia in Phrygia, whose also Stephanus Byz. mentioned. The coin described above shows great similarity to such the neighboring cities of Aphrodisias and Taba. The The peculiar head of Zeus with long curls can be found in Likewise on copper coins from Taba with the Dioscuri hats or a bison on the %/. etc., while the same veiled Aphrodite is a common type in Aphrodisias (Gardner, Types of Greek coins Pl. XV, 10). There sometimes appears next to her Crescent moon and star, probably also at her feet Eros and a vessel filled with flowers. Lycia. Araxa. ZE. 24 m. Hf. (AAP)IANOC - KAICAP Bust of Hadrianus with Laurel canopy and robe r. RF. APAZERN Zeus Nikephoros 1. sitting, to his Füssen Adler.

46 Arthur Löbbecke: From Araxa I don't have any other imperial coins known, the above is probably something revised, but apparently not changed. Apollonia. =D. 'li.m, Hf, AP Artemis head 1. R/. Winged Sphinx sitting on the left. The allocation of this little coin to the Lycian Apollonia seems safe to me. Balbura. A 18m. Hf. TAIOL-CEBAL Head of Caligula with laurel wreath 1. R/. BANB(OY)JPEQN Hermes with caduceus and money bag 1. standing. The Balbura coin series known to date is limited on some more pieces by Caligula with Heracles standing on the R/. and e.g. Th. various transliterations of the Af. Choma. 1, =. 16.m. Hf. Bearded head (Zeus?) with laurel wreath r. Rf. X2 rider in step r. the right hand raised. Of this town, whose location is named after Waddington (Rev. Num. 1853 p. 92) is still unknown, I only know the following Coin: 2) BD. 12 m. Hf. Same head as before. R/. Club between X—2R in a laurel wreath. (m. 8.; Rev. Num. 1853 p. 92; Num. Chron. 1861. p. 220). Patara. A 28 m. Hf. AXYT -KAI-M .ANT- FOPAIAN(OC - CEB) Bust portrait of Gordianus Pius with laurel wreath and robe r.

Greek coins from my IU collection. 47 R/. TTATAPEQN Hermes? sitting on a rock 1., in the right hand purse and the left on the Supported by rocks, a ram at his feet? Before him a standing figure with a long robe and staff. Tat. TUE, 10. Patara owned one famous Temple of Apollo with Oracle, therefore there are representations of this god on the coins the same often. I haven't found Hermes on it yet, yes Unfortunately the condition of the above coin is not such, around a reliable interpretation of the figures on the back admit can. Mionnet's III 441. 62 R/. “Deux Figures debut in one Temple distyle au milieu d’elles un quadrupede*” is probably the same Representation and therefore probably a copy of us otherwise unknown work of art installed in a temple was to be recognized. Pamphylia. Ariassus. "A, 37 m Hf. (AYT) KAI-A-CETTT-CEOYHP.... Bust portrait des Septimius Severus with laurel wreath and robe r. £f. Veiled Helena v. v. standing, above her head Crescent. On either side of it are the Dioscuri next to theirs horses standing... In Section APIACCERN. The same depiction can be found on coins from Kodroula, Akalissos and Termessos (Imhoof, Mon. Grecq. p. 345. 110). Palaeopolis. Eg 26 Im. Hf. AYT-K-M-AY : ANTQNE(INOC) Head of Elagabalus with laurel wreath r. Rf. TIANEOTIOAEITRN Tyche with rudder and filling horn 1. standing.

Arthur Löbbecke: Pisidia. Apollonia. 22 m. Hy. TITON-AYTOKPATOPA-KAICAPA Head of Titus with laurel wreath r. Rj. ATIOM@NIAT@N - AYKIQN Standing Apollo to one Leaning on a tripod, a column in front of him. 26 m. Hy. ANT -K- M- IOYAIOC - IAITITIOC- C D bust portrait des younger Philippus with laurel wreath and robes r. Rf. ATIOAARNIATLN - AYKIQN- OPAKR Seated Demeter l. a torch in each hand. 2U m. Hf. AYNT.K-M. IOYAIOC - #IAITITIOC Bust portrait as before. Ry. ATIOMRNIATRN-AY-OPAKO Lying River God 1. Isauria. Isaura. 37 m. Hf. IO(YAIA) AOMNA - CEBAC Bust portrait of Julia Domna , r., behind it a small imperial head (Caracalla?) struck. R/. MHTPOTIONERC-ICAYPQN Pallas Nikephoros |. sitting, behind her a large shield. 33 m. Hf. AXT-K.M-AYP. ANTRQNOINOC Bust of Cara calla with laurel wreath and robe r. R/. MHTPOTIONERC-ICAYPQN Zeus Nikephoros 1. sitting. Two new varieties the rare one coin Isaura's, the Waddington in the Revue Num. 1883 p. 38 compiled. Lydia. Philadelphia. Room 23 m. Hf. AHMOC Head of the demo r.

Greek coins from my IH collection. 49 Rf. B®INAAEABERN Reclining River God 1. In section KOFAMIC, The name of the river Kogamos, here called Kogamis which Philadelphia was located, is found here for the first time its coins. Titakazos?') ..,22. 10. ‘Gr. 5.82. Zf. AHMOC Head of the demo with garb r. If. TITAKASHN2N Tyche with cornucopia and rudder 1. standing. (Dr Earinos) Plate III, 16. A Titakazos or similar loud city name is us nowhere handed down. The above coin was, according to me communications in Pyrgos (ZZVoyos) on the Kiepert’sche Map called “Birgeh*, found. Pyrgos lies north of today's Oedemisch small tributaries of the Kayster, edemic halfway between Tralles and Sardis on the old road connecting these two Cities that crossed the Tmolus. The hometown the coin should So probably in Lydia search be. Dem Owner the same, Mr. Dr. Earinos in Smyrna, I am asking for permission to publish it here may be connected. Phrygia. Apamea. 49.86 Tue. Hf. AIONYCOC . KEAAINEYC Bust portrait des bearded Dionysus with robe r. Rf. ATIAME. TIAPA. CTPATONIKIANOY Two lions r. in front of a wagon carrying the Cista mystica 1) This piece already has A. v. Sallet discussed several times. S. Ver- actions of the numismat. social Berlin 1886 and acquisitions d. Royal Coincab. Magazine f. Number XV, p. 13 ff. Journal of Numigmatics, XV. 4

Arthur Löbbecke: round lid, an upright thyrsos and a torch tilted forward. Plate IH, 13. This coin is, like the piece with the same magistrate names in Mionnet (IV. 234. 250) proves, from the time of Commode. It is of particular interest because of its beauty Dionysoscope, here with the nickname Kelauvevs, which are the same Epithets both Atys or Attis (Martial V. 42. 2) and Marsyas (Id. X 62. 9). Both myths play in Phrygia, the skin of Marsyas, who was flayed by Apollo, was in one Cave preserved near Kelainai. Kelainai was in ancient times the capital of the south Phrygia and was there according to Xenophon (Exp. Oyril. 2) a palace of the Persian king. Seleucus Nicator transplanted their inhabitants into the of neighboring Apamea, built for him, that after his sister Apama named was. (Livy XXXVII. 13; Strabo XI. 577 etc.). The wine of Apamea, which was also large in Roman times was flourishing, is mentioned in Pliny (Hist. Nat. XIV. 9), but Bacchic types are rarely or not at all found on it Coins. | Beudos. ZA. 23 m. Hf. AY-KAI-TP-AAPIANOC Bust portrait of Hadrianus with laurel wreath and robe r. Rf. BEYAHNLN -TIA(AA)IO . The god Men with the ordinary attributes 1. standing, in the right a ball, a spear in his left hand. Only one coin from this city, also from Hadrian, was previously known (Num. Chron. 1845. p. 18; Rev. Num. 1853 p. 247); it shows a standing Apollo on the reverse.

Greek coins from my collection III. 51 Cibyra. =... 15m, Hf. OYHPANIOL Bare head of Q. Veranius r. ff. KIBYPAT@ Four-pillared temple. Zaf. II, 15, This inconspicuous little bronze gives us the name and the portrait one so far not yet found on coins Roman officials, because since the article Waddington’s “Les Proconsuls d’Asie et d’Afrique sur les monnaies” in the revue Num. 1867 p. As far as I know, 102 are not new portraits Roman proconsuls or legates became known on coins. That we have one here and not that of Germanicus or Tiberius before us seems certain to me, because according to Ana- logy of the coins of the proconsuls Fabius Maximus, Asinius Gallus, M. Tullius Cicero and Q. Varus with their names, we can also certainly here in the head with the inscription “Veranius”. recognize the image of such a person. Of the various veranii, only one can do this come into question. It is Q. Veranius, the legate of Germanicus in Asia Minor, who was governor of Cappa- became docien (Tacitus Ann. II 56). After the death of Germanicus He received a priest's position after completing this in community with Vitellius and Servaeus through the successful accusation against Piso had avenged (Täcitus Ann. II 74. III 10. 13. 17. 19). Cidramus. 1). 22nd m. Hf. Youth male Bust portrait (Helios?) with Radiation crown r. Rf. KIAPAMHN®2N Serapis sitting on the left to his Feet Kerberos, 2) ouch. 21 in. H/. Bust portrait as before. Ref. KIAPAMHN2N Dionysus with grapes and scepter l. standing, in front of him a panther. 4*

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Greek coins from my collection III. 53 stretched out their rights the sistrum, in the left a vessel. Daf, II. 17, A Hero Akamas have I on coins here first found. We know four of this name, three from the Iliad and one from Virgil (Aen. II, 262). What is probably meant here is either Antenor's son, his brother Archilochus killed by Ajax by killing the pro- macho's revenge, or that of Theseus, who together with Diomedes were sent together to Troy to reclaim Helen. Mionnet's IV. 366. 974. R/. “Homme casqu& debout vötu You paludamentum ayant in the main droite la haste et de la gauche le palladium” may also show him, as well as the illustrations education in Sestini’s Lett. di cont. V. Plate II, 7 (afterwards Mion. Suppl. VII. 625. 602); The emperor is probably not there with him depicted fighting an enemy, but like the print This coin, which is in Florence, is due to the kindness of Imhoof owe, probably shows Akamas in the fight with Promachus. Syria. Antiochus IX 116-95 B.C. BC mm. 20m. Gr. 16.39. H/. Bearded head of Antiochus IX with diadem right. Rf. BAZINERZ - ANTIOXOY - PIAOTIATOPO=Z Linkshin standing Tyche with a cornucopia and the handle of one rudder. In the field in front of her E AP, behind her Rose. In section HZ (208). The whole thing in one Laurel wreaths. Ta ı0 In the essay by Mr. J. P. Six on the Tripoli era in Annuaire de Num. 1886. p. 233 is this tetradrachm m. 8. cited and explained, I will give its illustration later. Assyria. Nineveh Claudiopolis. I) 20 26..m, Alf. IMP - NER - TRAI-CAES- AVG - GER - DA - OPT -PAR Bust of Trajanus with laurel wreath right.

54 Arthur Löbbecke: Greek coins from my collection III. R/. COL-IVL- FELI-NINI- CCLAVD Between two sta- darten a 1. sitting eagle with raised wings. A coin of Trajan with the same reverse is already from Sestini (Lett. num. di cont. V, 74 plate I, 11; then Mion., Suppl. VIII, 420. 1 and Annuaire de Num. IV, 212). made, but the emperor only put one side on it name GER incorrectly read CEB there. Trajan received the nickname Germanicus while he was still alive Nerva's, Dacicus in 856 d. St., Parthicus 869 d. St. finally Optimus also appears first on the latter year's coins i.e. 116 AD (Cohen, Med. Imp. II Edition, II. 16). There Trajan went to Selinunte in Cilicia the following year died, like that is our coin so in the years 116 or 117 AD beaten. 2): 22... 16m} H/f. IMP - (AJNTON Head of M. Aurelius r. RF NINI:C :COLO Two oxen yoke r. a) 2. 1ı m Hf. ANTONINI Oh... head as before. As before. These smallest nominals of Nineveh fill a gap between Trajan and Septimius Severus in the city's coin row. You are probably only minted after 165 AD, in which years after four year war the Parthians Mesopotamia and Adiabene ceded to Rome. 4) Egg. 35 m. Hf. IMP - MAXIMINVS -PIVS -AVG Bust portrait of Maxi minus with laurel wreath and robe r. Rf. MAXIMV - CAE - F (see above) COL : NINI: CLAYA chest picture of Maximus with robe r. Similar with incomplete transcription from Friedländer in this Ztschr. XI, p. 52 described. Braunschweig. Arthur Löbbecke.

| | The coinage of the city of Magdeburg a. 1900 and 1551. Plate IV. In the Magdeburg War or in the siege of September 16th 1550 to November 9th In 1551 the city of Magdeburg coined. This incredibly instructive character in which... the hostile Rush as it were embodied, is never the been the subject of special research; we know about it precious little, and what's worse, that little is mostly wrong. This is all the easier explainable, there the authors’) on the one hand the face value of the coins that come together are minted without any indication of value, either incorrectly or not at all not certain, and on the other hand, like them now a safe indication of the embossing was missing, counterfeits and commemorative coins were published as main rare emergency coins. So describes the youngest writer Mailliet, accompanied by flattering images, 10 emergency coins, of which only 4 are real and theirs Nominal down to the penny, where a mistake was impossible, all of them were incorrectly determined; we are learning All that matters is that emergency coins, since the counterfeits are old, are of have always had a large circle of enthusiasts! 1) Magdeb. Emergency coins mention, among others: J. J. Luckius, Strasbourg 1620; Franz Mieris, Hague 1732; J. T. Köhler, Nuremberg 1745; Ch.Ad. block, Altenburg 1765; T. Duby, Paris 1786; J. P. C. Rüder, Halle 1791; Wig Gert's side dishes to Hoffmann's History d. City of Magdeburg 1850; J.J. Leitzmann, Numism. Contemporary, Weissensee 1853; G.v. Mülverstedt, Magdeb. Münz-Cabinet, Magdeburg 1868; P. Mailliet, Brussels 1870.

56 S. Alexi: Once of the uselessness of the numismatic literature convinced by the temperature, I carried out my investigations on the zen itself extends, and those already known also appear here for the first time in truthful images. At the purpose of mine have work I have the different stamps elements of the already known, relatively more common character: des Gröschleins from 1550 and the location from 1551 are not taken into account. tig, I would have otherwise every coin I have seen can describe, and therefore only a little of the history of coins used; the familiar two stamps of the common pfennig lead just me on in view to one committed by Luckius mystification. The stamp differences the rest like that extremely rare coins, even if they have already been published, give But I look closely at the existing descriptions not enough. Under the coins I identified are unedited: half guilder and Gröschleinklippe, the two of them half a guilder and the groschen, the latter four are also Unique. — The respective possession which leads to coins I like follows to: Royal Mtsk. Berlin = KMB, Dukel. Mtsk. Gotha— HMG, Kaiserl. Mtsk. Vienna = KMW, city. Mtsk. Magde castle = SMM, city. Mtsk. Leipzig —= SML, Kab. d. Mr. H. Hauswald, Magdeburg — KHH, Kab. d. Mr. A. Jungfer — KAJ. I send the description the ones on the Coinage regarding information from contemporaries Besselmeyer and Merckel ahead, as well as one a place that has so far remained unnoticed later Pomarius; with the latter the sources dry up. In the destruction of the city in 1631 the files of the archive destroyed. — The relevant citations are: I Seb. Besselmeyer (true history and description of the maid- castle. War, Magdeburg 1552): Thursday after Judica the 19th of Marti (i.e. a. 1551) there was a mutiny and rebellion among the servants in the city who came here for payment

\ | | | The coinage of the city of Magdeburg a. 1550 and 1551. 97 but with this such mutiny was abolished and satisfied would come Graff Albrecht v. Mansfeld to the servants in the ring, which promises him on behalf of the city, is discovered this day their month according to their desire shall be off and on- go, and everything what man were guilty to them, should of hour on paid become, which also happened and everything was satisfied....... This is what the citizens have to do carried all their silver to the council pile, and to the council for- have to stretch: then you get coined in the siege, and squares also round guilders, the same half guilders, oerter, Groschen for 12 and 4 pfennigs), also copper pfennigs beat, with the city's coat of arms on one side the virgin and on the other Page a rose. But after the siege it was no longer valid, but againb been coined.' II. Heinrich Merckel (detailed. and thorough Report v. d. old city of Magdeburg siege, Magdeburg 1587. cfr. Hort- leather, Gotha 1645): have in the siege (i.e. the citizens) Monthly from hundred guilders one give have to. In addition, all of her silver work as half the part in 1551 20th Martii, the other half part on July 9th, or with money have to solve which one Silver after the Council the Bur- Gladly paid, or have it settled at the farm. And like this also don't want to be enough, there are gold and silver ones Cliffs, also completely copper pennies are minted so that you can everyone like to buy in the city, and is on one The Virgin stood on one side and the rose on the other. You have the Landsknecht in deduction the cliffs off- changes, the citizens have presented them to the council in the lap ben, and being obviously from the same again coined been.” 1) These 4 Pfg. groschen, called Gröschlein, already minted ore Bishop Albrecht I d. J. 1540-1543, the mark at 4 loth 2 grains fine.

98 S. Alexi: II. Elias Pomarius (Truth. thorough. u. eygentl. Be- write d. Siege d. City of Magdeburg, Magdeburg 1622. cfr. Hoffmann, Gesch. d. City of Magdeburg, t. II, f. 294): “From the delivered silver equipment, for the later inspection of which the council committed itself to paying the citizens, let the same light coins - so-called cliffs - are minted while the siege was placed in Cours and after whose repeal again withdrawn were. The Rath has until September 1st one hundred and twelve thousand and have a few hundred guilders struck and then one winnings of seventy-five thousand and several hundred had 1,000 guilders.* — 1. Half a guilder. Hf. MONE + NOVA + MAGDEBVRGENSIS (&) — Red. Coat of arms between 2 stars. R/. V(ER)BVM + DOMINI* M(A)IN + ETE + ı1 +5 +50 (®) — Rose. The coin was punched and has a bit of a double strike. KHH — weight 6.587 gr. Plate IV, 1. 2. Half a guilder. Hf. MONE + NOVA + MAGDEBVRGENSIS ;# — Red. coat of arms. Rf. VERBVM DOMINI MA IN ETE 1550 #* — Rose. SMM — weight 6.78 gr.

The coinage of the city of Magdeburg a. 1550 and 1551. 59 | 3. Dimes. TS UN WERE L- IN > € GEL NO), No: NZ Hf. MONETA -NOVA - MAGDBVRGE '# — Red. Coat of arms between 2 asterisks. Rj. VERBM DOMI: MA -IN- ETE- 1550 ++ — Rose. SMM — weight 1.27 gr. The coin is very damaged. 4, little one. Hf. M-N - MAGDBVRGENSI - *# — Red. Coat of arms between 2 points. R/. VKD%AM%IXEARIKRıIS5o :#. Rose. Tat. IV, 2 Weight of 9 exp. – 0.67; 0.76, 0.90, —; 1.00; 1021.90; 1.92, 2.5601 5. guilders'). Hf. MONETA ® NOVA & MAGDBVRGENS(IS) &15 Red. coat of arms. Rf. VERBVM ® DOMINI &® MA ® IN®ETE® ı551 SB Rose. The coin is very sanded, the transcription with the help of the second example. supplemented. KHH — weight 14.1 gr. aa. Ev. A The second copy is perforated and also poorly preserved. SMM — weight 13.41 gr. 1) At the time of going to print, an example appeared in the local coin trade. plar (weight 13.8 gr.) with a clear ending of the city name MAGD (BVRG) ENSI on; No. 6 also shows gaps here.

S. Alexi: 6. Guilders. H/. Like before. Rf. VERBVM DOMINI MA % IN % ETER 1% 55% 1 2 Rose. KHH — weight 15.5 gr. Plate IV, 3. Hf. MONE NOVA % MAGDEBVRGENSIS *#* — Red. Wap- pen between 2 asterisks. R/. Same as #6. Weight of 7 copies = 4.17; 4.31 (punched); 5,—; 5,075 (2 pcs); 5.08; 5.4 gr. (in excellent condition). 8. Guldenklippe. Red. Coat of arms between 2 crosses with stars ind. angles; about it MAGDE — underneath 15—-51. KMB — weight 16.70 gr. Tas. 1.57. 9. Guldenklippe. Red. Coat of arms between 2 crosses with dots in d. angles; about it - MAGDE: — including 15—-51. KMB — weight 18.35 gr. Tan 1y, 6, 10. Guldenklippe. As before, but MAGDE. — 15-51. KMW — 15.07 gr. (back has engraved inscription); KHH — 08/16 8T.; KA) == 16.67 er; HMG = 16.65 gr. DALıINV. 0, 11. Half Guldenklippe. Red. Coat of arms between 2 crosses with dots in d. angles; above MAGDE: — below 1551.

The coinage of the city of Magdeburg a. 1550 and 1551. 61 KHH = 7.65 (carved and punched); SML = 8.5 (punched) 86; KMB —=8.675; HMG = 9.28 gr. (gold plated). Valley. IV, 8 12. Half Guldenklippe. As before, but MAGDE: ı5 — sı. KMB — weight 8.7 gr. Act, IV, 9, 13. Dime Cliff. Red. Coat of arms between 2 stars; above that 15M51 SMM = 2gr. (heavily oxidized and gold-plated); KMB = 2.1107; HMG — 226 08 Plate IV, 10. 14. Gröschleinklippe. Like before, only the stamp is smaller, and the Coin very thin. Proprietary Possession — Weight 1gr. Tat.. IV, 11, 15. Pfennig. Red coat of arms, in the gate an asterisk; about it 15-51; the whole thing in German shield. Act, IV, 12 16. Pfennig. As before, but 15-51. Weight of 9 copies = 0.35; 0.37; 0.61; 0.71; 0.80; 0.81; 1,—; 1.05; 1.15 gr. The first half guilder from 1550, which certainly marked the pre- gung began, shows only good character and good Salary, the second of the same year already both lower good; all other coins from 1550 and 1551: guilders, Place, dimes and Gröschlein — special the two first Nominals - are crudely minted and poorly preserved. The one-sided The current copper penny is tolerable, but the one-sided cliffs'). are very crudely minted and have very little content, like this Pomarius documented; a square stamp is on the latter taken at random, you can clearly see the hare Cireulants. The coins as a whole carry what is being said 1) Any inscriptions on the back are later engravings.

62 S. Alexi: Coat of arms along with year and city name, only the penny is missing the latter; The two-sided embossing also shows on the The rose and the motto on the back. — The city, e.g. 2. without coin privilege') deliberately avoided any indication of value. tion in order to preserve the character of the emergency money. The time was too serious to uselessly increase a long register of sins, and Moritz, the executor, stood threateningly in front of him anyway the fool. If adversity teaches you to pray, money also teaches you shape, to first Male coined the city, and with fine It has a heraldic feel in its overall coat of arms and motto “verbum domini manet in aeternum” of their political position Expressed! — If you put the overall impression, excluding the Pfennigs, put together in two groups, this results in: on two-sided embossings v. 1550: half guilders Groschen Groschen. v. J! 1551. Guilder _- Location = — i. Sum: Guilder half guilder place Groschen Gröschlein. on one-sided stamps v. J. 1551: guilder half guilder groschen Gröschlein. All denominations of the Besselmeyer Variety Association drawing, with the exception of the local cliff, proven; in the group of two-sided embossings However, there are more significant gaps, if man assumes, that the city coined five denominations every year. The Citizen Besselmeyer ignores this as well as everyone else ' Coinage very poor; to him she was considered secondary lich. The testimony of Council Secretary Merckel, the some thirty years later wrote and Besselmeyer's book only published watered, is therefore of no importance at all, and its volatile remark, that one golden and silver cliffs’) 1) The city received the minting privilege by decree of September 24th 1567, but only practiced it a. 1570. 9) The local royal Coin box owns the municipal gold guilders from 1574.

The coinage of the city of Magdeburg a. 1550 and 1551. 63 Even if you've minted pennies far from copper, you'll see quid pro quo very similar; However, the city is truly golden Cliffs shaped, which I definitely doubt, are like that until now no real ones known. — The course of coinage is now- . more clear. The city was shaped by the pressure of the siege always worse, inferior money, first two-sided Coins and the pfennig, finally from March 20, 1551, as the troops mutinied, the one-sided cliffs. The foot, after- which was minted was the guilder foot (1 fl. = 21 coins; 1 gr. — 12 Pfg.; 1 large —= 4Pfg.), a forerunner of the so-called Guldenthalerfusses, who, according to his farewell of August 18, 1559, “for “the entire empire of the German nation” was given the force of law. — To As an illustration of the monetary value, I will also cite the provisions tax (Merckel at Hortleder t. IV, f, 1275): “1 Wispel Waizen, Rock or flour around 12 fl., 1 pound Beef, cow, pork, Veal, mutton, sheep meat 1 gr., 1 can of beer 3 Pfg., 1 pound bacon 14 Pfg., 1 pound lard 2 gr., 1 pound butter 3 gr., 1 Han or hen 4 gr., 1 Ey by 2 Pfg., 1 Goose ahead 7 gr., a pair of young pigeons 2 gr., 1 duck 4 gr., 1 maass honey 3 gr. Ultimately, a cow is comfortable in the 24 fl. were valid. — After what has already been said, I can speak about the false fikats, commemorative coins, etc unpleasant part my work, to be brief. I. One-sided gold cliff. III (0). 1551 (r) Red. Coat of arms between 2 stars chen (Mailliet p. 53, DD. KMB — weight 6.487 gr. II. One-sided Thaler cliff. 15M51 (oe) — Same as before. (Luckius No. 1; Wiggert No. 2; Mailliet p. 77, V). KMB — weight 29.175 gr. Ili. One-sided round thalers. Like before. (Madai 5023). — KMB — weight 29.05 gr.

S. Alexi: IV. One-sided round silver coin (penny size). 15M15 (0) — Red. Coat of arms between 2 asterisks in the German shield. (Luckius No. 3; Mailliet p. 77, IX). V. Two-sided gold cliff. H/. Talking coat of arms between 2 stars. Rf. 1: 5 | BELAG-RVMGMAG | DEBVRG | -5-1- (Mailliet p. 76, I) KMB = 3.875 gr, KMW — 3.56 gr., KMG = 2.70 gr. VI. Two-sided silver cliff. Like before, only the asterisks are missing. (Köhler Mzbelstg. XVII, p. 249; Mailliet p. 77, VI). VII. Two-sided silver cliff. Like V, only the inscription is divided differently. (Mieris No. 2; Malliet p. 77. VD). VIII. Two-sided golden chapter cliff. Hj. A standing armored saint, in d. R. one Shield on the 6 jugs, Mug or similar (2.1.2.1 died); in d. L. the cross flag; to both. Pages S.—M. R/. The same depiction is slightly different. (Köhler Mzblstg. XVII, p. 241; Mailliet p. 76, III). Weight 2 Due. The coins listed under I--VI, all v. J. 1551, show the same with the exception of IV, which never existed at all Criteria: clean embossing and fine metal — two impossibles abilities for emergency coinage v. J. 1551. — The one-sided one Goldklippe I, the Unicum, has ||| instead of the city name. Man tried all sorts of mysterious interpretations!) and finally found in this designation the nominal, i.e. 4 guilders. Apart from that from the fact that no emergency coin, as already said, is very plausible has a value designation for a sensible reason, is this interpretation 1) efr. D. F. E. Boysen, historical. Magazine V. Piece f. 174.

The coinage of the city of Magdeburg a. 1550 and 1551. 65 very foolish: the city would have contributed to the coinage atone. This cliff is easy one “to the lovers be- counted it as a forgery', to which Merckel's well-known saying easily gave the impulse; according to the factory it comes from 16th century coin. The one-sided one. Thalerklippe (II) and the one-sided. round thalers (III) are copies of a stamp, they are already in this one royal coin cabinet among the counterfeits; on modern Stamps are easy to recognize, and they also have the weight of the later Speciesthaler. The factory points to the beginning of 17th century. The one. round silver coin of penny size (IV) is one mystification. Luuckius forms three Magdeburg emergency coins from: the false Thalerklippe (IT), the real Groschenklippe (13) and this one one. round silver coin. Since on the Thaler and Groschen cliff the M represents the year number, he considered it advisable to ensure conformity in To create embossed and metal, the penny was marked with an M and gave it as silver coin. — The twos. Gold and Silver Cliffs V—VII originate a factory, probably copies of a stamp, and are the slight differences are only the fault of the illustrators. The factory according to belong she dem 16th century on and can to 25 years of memory of the siege; spa They certainly never were rent coins, as seen from the cliffs embossing emerges. The gold cliffs - and only these stood to me - also show significant differences in weight, as is often the case with commemorative coins. The Chapter Cliff (VIII), a unicum, was given by Köhler to the maiden Attached to castle siege coins: canons, the in fled the enemy camp, have left their mark on the same! Because these senseless purpose was transferred to all works, seemed I would like to make a correction here. Köhler holds the saint for St. Moritz, and the coat of arms - he blazons Journal of Numismatics. XV, 5

66 p. Alexi: The coinage of the city of Magdeburg a. 1550 and 1551. 6 balls — for Magdeburg: there in the cathedral located famous group “Otto and Editha”') of the emperor in the R. holds a bowl with 19 balls, which represent the cost of the Construction of the cathedral “19 barrels gold' mean. — Must, I ask, the saint may well be Saint Maurice, why not Saint Martin? I remember the beautiful Thaler “Catalogue Hess, Frankfurt 1883, No. 4698”, there to Heydt and Bleyt laid. Now what the coat of arms, or rather the group concerns, like that the emperor holds in the R. den Globe or orb, on the 19 increases are (maybe countries, or also just ornaments); in the L. that Scepter (now partially aborted); therefore a very special knew representation! The coat of arms but just proves that the coin not is archbishopric, because the red and white divided shield already appears on the elect seal Otto's from Hesse 1327 and on coins Friedrichs from confession Lingen (1445-1464); probably is these coin or this one Mercy penny from any one Martin's Monastery ge- shapes! — 1) cfr. J. H. v. Hefner-Alteneck, traditional costumes, art and equipment. etc. Frankfurt 1869, B. I, No. 21. S. Alexi.

About some of Sabatier in the Revue de la numis- coins issued matique beige. Sabatier's coin descriptions have already been incorrect several times been reprimanded. As Imhoof-Blumer notes, v. Sallet's Ztschr. f. N. III, 1876 p. 332 No. 11, that a coin of the Plautilla of Side with reclining river god and nymph after Sabatier, Revue de la num. Belgium 1863 Pl. IV, 5 in the obverse the head of Plotina, Selene in the lapel and Endymion on Mount Latmos should represent. Friedlander, v. Sallet’s Ztschr. f. N. VII, 1880 p. 232-233, mentioned in the description of one for the Berliner Contorniates acquired from the Coin Cabinet depicting the the Odysseus kneeling for protection imploring radiant wreathed Circe and the pig oven with the transformed ones companions of the hero, that Sabatier, medallions contorniates p. 63 No. 15 in this type one wearing the martyr's crown Christian, which one in the amphitheater a gladiator for pity begs, wants to recognize, Below are some other incorrect descriptions of the meritorious numismatist. And indeed I want to, although there are also some other writings by Sabatier Containing a strikingly erroneous description'), on coins that were in the three essays: 1) On a coin he gives the Julia Domna of Ephesus in the Cata- logue de la coll. Sabatier p. 22 No. 122 as reverse inscription KAITHC-APTEMIAOC- E®ECION - TPIC- NEQKOPON Instead of EBECIQN - TPIC - NEQKOPQN - KAL- THC - AP- TEMIAOC, about the meaning of which inscription cf. v. Sallet in d. Ztschr. f. N.V, 1878 p. 349. In an essay in Revue num. 1859 p. 290, PlI.X fg.4 recorded he debout an Apollo on a coin of Caracalla of Tarsus, & g., la kill ornee de deux plumes de Sir&ne — comme chef des Muses.*“ 5*

68 W. Drexler: Monnaies imp6riales grecques, en bronze et inedites, Extrait de la Revue de la numismatique Belgian 1863, 3rd series, tome IV, p. 1-22; Quelques medals Grecques inedites autonomous ou imperiales, Extr. de la Revue de la numismatique, Belgium 1863, 4° series, tome I, p. 117-159; Medailles romaines et imperiales grecques, edits, Extrait from the Revue de la numismatique Belgian 1865, 4° series, tome II, p. 389-426 are communicated, limit. And even within these limits, I only lift a few things stand out: also from the coins not mentioned some may still be described incorrectly. In the first of the essays listed above, Revue belge 1860 is p. 3 No. 4, Pl. I. Marcianopolis, Gordianus Pius: AVT -K: M. ANT : FOPAIANOC - AVFDBuste Laura de Gordien, & dr. R/. VN - MHNO®IAOV - MAPKIANOTIOAIT Hercule nu, & dr. et tenant larc, & ses pieds Cerbere; derriere, la peau de lion sur la massue the figure of the back completely misunderstood. Although labeled also Cohen, Cat. Gray p. 82 No. 1012 the same as Heracles, but the illustration, As indistinct as it is, it still shows that we are dealing here with that of Mionnet Suppl. II p. 112 No. 335 on a copy with the heads of the people looking at each other Sarapis and Gordianus in obverse so described Type to have done: YM.- MHNO®IAOY - MAPKIANOTIOAITRN, Apollo lon nu, debout between deux troncs d’arbres, la main dr. sur sa tete, et un arc dans la g.; sur l'un des trones d'arbres, la chlamyde; sur l'autre, un serpent enlac&; in the champion T. 3.7. According to this description and Sabatier's illustration In the review number. 1861 Pl. IV No.7 p. 95—95; Pl. IV No.8 p. 96; Pl. IV No. 9 p. 96-97; Berytos (Poseidon on ship); Byblus (Astarte in four- pillared temple; — snake biting its tail); Sidon (CER- SAC - E-HOCVM-—-ISELAin four lines within a laurel wreath) from the Paris Cabinet, without coming up with the very obvious idea that the same with the of Mionnet V p. 347 No.83; Suppl. VIII p. 254 No. 82; V p.355 No. 133; V p. 388 No. 346 under Elagabalus described Pieces with the same types are identical.

About some coins issued by Sabatier. 69 also to correct a copy of Philippus and the Otacilia. The description of the same is given by Wiezay I p. 81 No. 2178, Table VII No. 157 and then at Mionnet Suppl. II p. 114 No. 348: YTT. IA -.MECCANEINd MAPKIANOFIOAEITRN Apollo nudus dextra capiti imposita, see Jyram arbori appensam, juxta cippus. EU and at Sestini Mus. Hed. I p. 31 No. 57: n YT1- TIPET - MELLANEINd . MAPKIANO et in area O.A Apollo nudus ad s. stans d. capiti admota, s. arcum _EI NN NER TAN et simul Iyrae truncae arbori impositae, innititur, ante Herma, et E.A. 2. Also a coin of Elagabalus and Maesa at Cohen, Cat. Gray p. 81 No. 1011 E. 7 represents instead of the alleged Heracles represents this type of Apollo. What is characteristic is the way in which the god chooses the right one Arm over head. There are a large number of Apollo Statues have been preserved which show him in this position of the right arm represent. In most cases it is formed standing Left usually supporting a tree stump, a pillar, etc.; a few times he also appears without supporting his left arm. There are also some statues with this right posture Arms that depict the god sitting. Compare e.g. b. for the standing god: Clarac, Musee de sculpt. III Pl. 477, 912C = Müller-Wieseler, monument. d. a. K. II®, 1, plate XI, 126 a, p. 88; Clarac III Pl. 479,916; 479,917;. 479,919; 267,920; 267,921 = Müller-Wieseler II', 1 til. XI, 127a, p. 89; Clarac IH Pl. 480,921 A; 480, 921B; 486B, 948F, 486, 942; 490,954; 494B, 912F; 493, 961; 476C, 965B; for the seated one: the cut one Stein at Müller-Wieseler II’, 1 plate XI no. 128 ap. 89 = Ch. Lenormant, Nouvelle gal. myth. Pl. XXXIII No. 14 and the coin of Caracalla of Miletus in Kenner, The monastery's coin collection St. Florian, plate IV Fig. 7 p. 124, where more coins from this city recorded with a similar type. A. Furtwaengler, s.v. Apollo in art in Roscher's Lexicon d. gr. and r.M. p. 460-462 has such statues of Apollo either by Praxiteles himself or his students according to the Praxitelic type

70 W. Drexler: Hermes can be formed, only with the modification that the right one Apollo's arm is raised higher than that of Hermes and on that head is laid. Compare this attitude too Connoisseur L. c. and Braun Preschool of Art Mythology p. 24. On the coin of Philippus Junior of Thessalonice Pl. II No; 2nd p. 7 MAP: IOYAI - GIAITINOC DBuste de Philippe, & dr. R/. OECCAAONIKERN Victoire, & gauche, tenant une palme et une couronne The illustration clearly shows that Nike does not have one in the R wreath, but on or slightly above it four round objects, In any case, apples, the well-known prize of the Pythias (cf. Krause, The Pythia, Nemeen and isthmia, Leipzig 1841 p. 49-50, grades 11-12; Eckhel, D. N. V. IV p. 452—453 and the epigram in Kaibel, Epigr. Gr. No. 931, C. 1. A. III, 116 vs 1-2; Roehl, Bursian's annual report. X, 3, 1882, vol. 32 p. 43: Soi Tod’ Ovnılwoe unle, nargwıe, onuara viang IlvIans tsons vovridew’ sverrins’ along with the note praefatio p. XIX), two each on top of each other or let something jump up while playing. Similar is Nike on a coin of Gordianus Pius in A Cat. of the Greek Coins in the Brit. Mus. Macedonia p. 124 No. 119 Eg. 1 described as Nike, advancing 1., holding five balls and palms. On other coins of Gordianus Pius from Mionnet Suppl. III p. 155 No. 1011 there is a play urn with a palm tree and five apples at the feet of the goddess of victory (FE. 6%); the same one the Tranquillina in Cat. of the gr. c. in the Br. Mus. Macedonia p. 126 No. 132 ZA. 1, and Philippus Senior |. c. p. 127 No. 135. 28. 95. The type of Pl. II No. 4 p. 8 Corcyra, Elagabalus: A-K:M: A. ANTRNEINOC. DBust laur6 d'Elagabale a dr. R/. KOPKYPAIQN Femme nue, debout, & gauche, dans un temple distyle, the bras droit appuy& sur une colonne will be inA Cat. of the Greek coins in the Brit. Mus. Thessaly to

About some coins issued by Sabatier. 71 Aetolia p. 161 No. 655-57 under Commodus, p. 160 Nos. 647, 648 under L. Verus, p. 159 No. 641, pl. XXVI. 4; No. 642 under Marcus Aurelius as Agreus l., in shrine between two pillars; Agreus standing 1., described in niche between two columns. On Pl. II No. 7p. 9 Corinthus, Hadrian: IMP : CAES - ADRIANVS (sic) AVG DBust Laura d'Hadrien, & droite. R/. COLL-IVL-COR. Temple rond, orne d’arcades et & coupole conique. Type inedit. will man when comparing the Roman coin of Titus in Donaldson, Architeetura numismatica No. 80 and Cohen I’ p. 450 No. 246. RF s.c. Pyramide surmonte d’un ornament In the form of flowers, in the surrounding area of the edifice, with a porte d’entr6e (Meta sudans) feel very inclined to the building to attribute the same determination as that of Donaldson and Cohen referred to as meta sudans. Of course the form is reminiscent also on the conical column in the Temple of Adonis to Byblos (Donaldson No. 30), and if you remember, how very straight The oriental origin of Aphrodite comes to light in Corinth you want to feel tempted here the goddess representative conical stone can be seen. But it seems to me the former interpretation is preferable to be. Anyway, the same one Type is on a coin of Domitian of Corinth in the Museo Arigoni in Cohen I? p. 529 No. 714 and Sestini, Cat. num. vet. Musei Arigoniani castigatus p. 36 =I. col. 3. 43 as an obelisk described. On Pl. IV No. 7 p. 17 Antiochia Pisidiae, Gordianus Pius instead of La Fortune et [is printed instead of ou] la Providence debut, a.e.g., tenant un miroir et une corne d’abondance the Tyche of the city with vexillum and cornucopia can be seen, Pl. V No. 1 p. 18 Anazarbus, Elagabalus can be the illustration according to the bearded bust on the back not that of Zeus, for which she spends Sabatier. Pl.V No. 3 p. 19 Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Gordianus Pius is the person crowning Tyche is probably the emperor rather than a genius.

W. Drexler: Pl. V No. 4 p. 19 Tarsus, Commodus is probably the head of Cydnus at the feet of the city goddess probably with a reed be provided with wreaths, rather than with rays, which, of course, are also the case are visible in the illustration. The comment on Pl. V No. is quite fantastic. 10 p. 22 IMP-C-M ORDIANVS:P.A Buste laure et cui- rasse de Gordien, & dr. Rj/. COL-NV .-PHOENICES, Temple orne de colonnes et vu de cote. Monnaie inedite et incertaine. Peut etre The initials COL-NV are designed-elles la ville de NV- roli, in the zeugitanie, ville dont parle Ptol&mee et que Cellarius mentionne aussi (Notitia orbis an- tiqui, t. II p. 104. Amsterdam 1706. A worthy side piece to this is when de Sauley, Renseignements num. on Fexpression NP, Cornu, employse dans l’ecriture sainte pour designer metaphoriquement la puissance, Num. Chron. 1872 p. 70 on the one with maybe the Sabatier one identical copy of the Catalog Rollin et Feuardent 1864 p-480 No. 7250: Phoenice in general DIANVS Buste laure et drape de Gordien III, & dr. fef. COL-NV - PHOENICES Temple hexastyle vu de cote, E.g. 7; also on a coin of Elagabalus in his collection p. 71: Bust laure et tourne & dr. d'Elagabale, with the Paludam. EMI Temple hexastyle vu de cöt6, au lingerie le murex. ZE. 19 million according to a coin of the Va- lerian p. 69: IMP ».C.-P.-LIC.- VALERIANVS- AVG Bust laur6 tour & dr. et revetu du Paludamentum. Ff. CORNV .PHENICES. Temple tetrastyle, vu de trois quarts; & l'exergue, la coquille de la Pourpre, et un objet indetermine Eg. 27 million