In the Bulletin Bibliographique are notices of the two following works: "On a Gaulish Silver Coin, with the supposed representation of a Druid," by M. Franz Streber; and "Seal and Coins of Zuentibold, King of Lorraine; coin of his successor Louis," by M. Ch. Robert. In the Chronique there are some remarks by M. A. de Longpérier "On a Coin supposed to belong to Lepida, wife of Galba." This coin is published in the Archäologische Zeitung, by M. Gerhard, and is of second brass, having on the obverse the head of a female opposite that of a man, with the legend, TAABA CE[BA]CTOC; and on the reverse Pallas, with the word ΙΛΙ [εων]. M. le. Baron de Prokesch-Osten proposes to consider the female head as that of Lepida; whilst M. Gerhard suggests the name of Livia, protectrice of Galba (Suet. Galb. V.). M. Cavedoni decides for Livia, on account of the head-dress; and M. A. de Longpérier adds, "That which appears decisive is the forward place given to the female bust, a place which would be chosen for a person to whom Galba wished to acknowledge his gratitude. The remark, therefore, of M. Gerhard is of great value." There is also in the Chronique an account of a Gaulish coin with the legends BRI and CO[MA], found at Carthage, in Africa; and of a large brass of Maximinus, with the reverse legend FIDES MILITVM, found in an encampment of French soldiers, near to Mytho, in Cochin-China, This coin appears to be the first ancient piece which has been found at so great a distance from the West. In the première livraison of the Revue Belge for 1865 there are the following articles: 1. "Gallo-Belgic Numismatics, or Monetary History of the Atrebates, the Morini, and Gallo-Belgic nations in general," (continued) by M. Alexandre Hermand. 2. Second letter to M. R. Chalon "On the Elements of Mussulman Numismatics," from M. F. Soret. 3. "French Jetons relating to the Peace of the Pyrenees, and to the Marriage of Louis XIV. with the Infanta of Spain," by M. A. Preux. 4. "Deniers of Louis IV. of Germany, struck at Antwerp," by M. Morel Fatio. 5. "Notice of an inedited Méreau of Doesbourgh," by M. Hooft Van Iddekinge. In the Correspondance is a letter from M. le Comte Nahuys to M. R. Chalon, concerning the sterling of Vorst. In the Mélanges are notices of various numismatic publications. In the Nécrologie are short biographies of MM. G. Vander Meer and Pierre Joseph Braemt. In the fifth volume of the second series of the Opuscoli Religiosi Letterari e Morali, published at Modena, there is an article by Sig. Abbate Celestino Cavedoni, entitled "Le principali Questioni riguardanti la Numismatica Giudaica diffinitivamente decise." This paper is an excellent and highly complimentary review of Mr. Madden's "History of Jewish Coinage and Money in the Old and New Testaments." The Abbé Cavedoni agrees with nearly all the attributions and the suggestions in the work, and considers that this "insigne e splendida opera," which is "nel suo genere completa e perfetta," definitely settles all questions relating to Jewish numismatics. "Recherches sur la Monnaie Romaine depuis son origine jusqu'a la mort d'Auguste," par M. Pierre Philippe Bourlier, Baron d'Ailly. Tome I. Lyon, 1864. 4to. Forty-nine Plates. WE have here the first volume of a magnificent work upon what has commonly been known as the Roman Consular series, which promises to give by far the most copious and detailed account of these coins which has ever appeared. Printed on toned paper, with handsome margins, and with plates such as only the graver of Dardel can produce, it is as superior in outward appearance to Riccio's book on the same subject, as it is in carefulness of detail and fidelity of representation. The only book we have at present that is at all worthy to be placed by its side, is Cohen's Médailles Consulaires; but to judge from Baron d'Ailly's promises, his work will be as much in advance of M. Cohen's, as M. Cohen's was of any of his predecessors. In the present volume there are not, however, many grounds of comparison between the two authors, as Baron d'Ailly's fortynine plates are almost exclusively devoted to the Es grave and its parts, and the early gold and silver coins, with the Jani-form heads, to which Cohen has given some five or six plates only. At the first examination of the Baron d'Ailly's plates, the impression is received that an unnecessary number of examples of the various coins have been given; the plates being often filled with what would by many collectors be regarded as duplicates; but a closer inspection reveals the various differences in style and details which characterise the coins, and proves the amount of careful attention which has been bestowed by the author on his subject. We cannot at present enter into any critical examination of the descriptive part of the work, but it must be evident that one who has been able to make such a selection of coins as those exhibited in the plates, must have had almost unparalleled opportunities of acquiring a thorough practical knowledge of the coins of which he treats, and such as must have enabled him to draw many, and among them probably some new general conclusions from them. In his method of treating the subject, the Baron d'Ailly has introduced two or three innovations, on which, no doubt, there will be differences of opinion, but on several points we think the verdict of numismatists will be in his favour. One of these consists in engraving the reverse of each coin below the obverse, instead of, as usual, by its side. The great advantage of this is the facility it affords for comparing the obverses or the reverses of a series of nearly similar coins together, and of at once seizing the points of resemblance and difference. Another innovation, which few will regret, is the introduction of the metrical system of measurement, instead of the arbitrary scale of Mionnet. We hope that ere long we may have to call attention to the issue of the second volume of this valuable work; but in the meantime commend the present to such of our readers as are interested in the early Roman coinage. was MISCELLANEA. COIN OF A NEW CITY OF MYSIA.-In January, 1863, I received a letter from M. Henri Cohen, of Paris, informing me that among a lot of coins supplied to him by M. Hoffmann, there one reading ΓΡΙΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΩΝ. Astonished at this reading, he consulted all the coins in the Cabinet des Médailles given to Trimenothyræ, and found constantly TPI instead of TPI. He therefore begged me to ascertain if there were any coins in the British Museum with the same legend. To this I replied in the negative, feeling at the time persuaded that TPIMENOOVPEON was the correct form, especially as the reading in Ptolemy (ed. Wilberg. Lib. v. 2, 15) is always with a Tδυμισκώτεροι δὲ Τριμενοθουρῖται, ὧν ἐστιν ἡ Τραϊανόπολις-and that the two specimens in the Museum, to all appearance, read in the same manner. An additional argument in favour of T may be drawn from the fact that other coins, either of a city of Lydia, according to Pausanias (lib. I. 35, 7), or of Phrygia, according to Hierocles (p. 688. ed. Wesseling), have the legend ΤΗΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΩΝ, a form given by Pausanias (l. c.) as Τημένου Oúpa, "gates of Temenos." The writer of the article "Temenothyræ," in Smith's "Dict. of Geography," goes so far as to consider these cities to be one and the same place. Mr. Waddington, who published in the Revue Numismatique (1852, p. 94) two coins of Trimenothyræ, suggests that the city, or rather that the capital, of the Trimenothyrei, took under Hadrian, the name of Trajanopolis, as there is, in Paris, a Greek Imperial coin of Hadrian bearing the name of the same magistrate as on one of the coins of Trimenothyræ published by him, and as the first certain coins of Trajanopolis are also of Hadrian. Millingen (Recueil des quelques Med. Grecques, p. 74) also suggested that Trimenothyræ was changed to Trajanopolis. Mr. Waddington considers that Trimenothyrs and Temenothyræ are neighbouring cities, and not one and the same place (cf. Rev. Num. 1852, p. 32).' To return to the question of T or г. Last year M. Cohen sent over to M. Cavedoni five impressions of the disputed coins, one from the collection of Mr. Waddington, one from that of M. Hoffmann, and the remaining three from the Cabinet of France. Cavedoni, after examining them, is decidedly of opinion that the true reading is ΓΡΙΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΩΝ, and not TPIMENO@YPEON, and quotes as an authority (Bull. dell' Instit. 1863, p. 63) Tzetzes, who, apparently following the above quoted passage of Ptolemy, and writing of a city of Mysia, says (Chiliad xi. ver. 974), Οἱ Γριμενοθουρῖται δὲ πρὸς δυσμὰς πάλιν ῶν ἡ Τραϊανοῦ τυγχανει πόλις, πόλις. Cavedoni further suggests the re-examination of the best codices of Ptolemy. I have myself consulted the only MS. of Ptolemy in the British Museum, which dates early in the 15th century, and the reading there is decidedly Tpaμεvo@vρîтaι. Certainly the edition of Wilberg (1838), to which I have already referred, and which is considered to be one of the best, gives Trimenothyra in all the various readings. 1 An unpublished coin of Salonina, struck at Temenothyræ, with the reverse legend TITIANOC APXIEPEYC THMENOOYPEYCI (last seven letters in exergue), in the collection of the Rev. Churchill Babington, bears the following type:-"Hercules holding club, looking to right, placing his left knee on the belly of a river god, who holds up his right hand to push him off; in the field, a branching plant; below to right, an urn pouring out water." This would seem to establish the fact, as Mr. Babington has remarked to me, that Temenothyræ was situated on the banks of some river. I cannot, however, refrain from remarking, that on re-examining the two coins in the Museum, the first letter of the legend certainly resembles a T, and that what might naturally be taken for the other limb, so as to form T, is the end of the long shoe worn by the god Lunus.2 This coin is published by Mionnet (Suppl., vol. v., p. 495, No. 1,261), under Trimenothyrei, Mysia. I may also observe that Combe, in his description of the Hunter collection, engraved (pl. 60, No. 6) a coin with the legend ΓΡΙΠΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΩΝ (sic), which he has wrongly attributed to Thurium in Acarnania. The type is similar to the one engraved by Mr. Waddington (Rev. Num., 1852, pl. iv., No. 8). There is still left the question whether Τριμενος and Θύραι does not seem more veritable Greek than Γριμενος and Θύραι, for I can find no word from which the latter could be derived, whilst two or three derivations might be suggested for the former. FREDERIC W. MADDEN. NOBLES OF HENRY V. AND VI.-The following description of some varieties of nobles of Henry V. and VI. may be of interest. No. 1. Obv.-h¶NRI¶ & DI ‹ GRA › R¶X × AN 6L ; S × FRANE DлS×hуB×. Five ropes to the Rev.-m.m. pierced cross; Ihd × AVT&M X XIBAT' Usual type; with a small cross by the lion's head, within the second curve of tressure. 107 grains. No. 2. Obv.-As No. 1; but there are only three ropes to the ship. Rev.-As No. 1; but with a pellet at the tail of the lion, in the eighth curve of tressure. 2 I have also, thanks to the kindness of General Fox and Mr. Langdon, an impression of one of these coins in the General's cabinet, and here also the r is quite distinct. An impression which I took some time ago from an imperial coin of Claudius of this city, belonging to M. Feuardent, again. affords sufficient proof that the letter T is correct. |