which followed that event, the coin remained where he had hid it. If we remember how much more valuable gold was then than now, the amount of this deposit will surprise us; nor does it seem likely that any private man in Sidon could have gathered what was, probably, at that time equivalent to forty thousand pounds, and all of this particular coin of Philip and Alexander. The latter appears as he is usually figured, and his face is too familiar to need explanation. Philip I had not seen before, and was particularly pleased to find him associated with the chariot and horses, of which he was so proud and so vain.”—From "The Land and the Book," by Dr. W. M. Thomson, an American Missionary in Syria and Palestine, p. 134. To the Editor of the Numismatic Chronicle. SIR, I am endeavouring to make as perfect as possible a list of coins of the STAMFORD MINT, in use from the time of Edgar to Henry II. inclusive. Several leading numismatists have kindly aided me with descriptions of coins of this mint in their cabinets; through the courtesy of Mr. Vaux, I have been enabled to examine and particularise all the Stamford coins in the British Museum collection; Mr. Webster, of Great Russell Street, has kindly contributed all the information upon the subject which his long experience and minute record have qualified him to give; and I have extracted from Hildebrand's ample catalogue the numerous descriptions of Stamford coins which it contains. Still, there are many coins of this mint (some perhaps, of unique types, or unknown moneyers) in private hands, and inaccessible to me directly. I shall feel exceedingly obliged if the owners of any such coins will forward to me their exact description, referring me to their types in Ruding or Hawkins, and giving particularly the legends of obverse and reverse, with any peculiarities of lettering or markings. For example, from my own collection: "Eadweard II.-Martyr. "Type:-Ruding, pl. 21, no. 3; Hawkins, 202. "Obv.+EADрARD REX ANL "Rev.+ESCMAN M-0 STAN." Coins of Wm. I. and II. which have for town's name, "BVRD" (or its variations), for Peterboro', are connected with this mint, and I shall be glad to receive descriptions of such coins also. Yours, &c., SAMUEL SHARP. Dallington Hall, near Northampton, March, 1865. IX. ON AN UNPUBLISHED TETRADRACHM OF LYSIMACHUS, PROBABLY STRUCK AT BYZANTIUM, READING ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟ, WITH REMARKS ON THIS FORM OF THE GENITIVE; TOGETHER WITH A BRIEF NOTICE OF OTHER UNPUBLISHED COINS OF LYSIMACHUS IN THE AUTHOR'S CABINET; AND OF A GOLD OCTODRACHM OF ARSINOE STRUCK AT TYRE. BY THE REV. PROFESSOR CHURCHILL BABINGTON, B.D., F.L.S. (Read before the Numismatic Society, December 15, 1864.) THE coin about to be described is remarkable, as being one of the latest clear examples which exhibit the termination of the genitive in O in place of oy; and on that account may deserve a special notice. Obv.-Head of Alexander (?) with ram's horn, as usual to right. Rev.-ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩ[Σ] ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧo in parallel lines, the omicron being smaller than the other letters. Pallas Nicephorus as usual; monogram, H immediately in front of her right knee. No letter on the throne; and nothing visible on the exergue, whic his, however, partly off the coin. R. 8; weight, 263 grains. Apart from the peculiarity of the legend, this coin deserves notice as not occurring in L. Müller's valuable work entitled "Münzen des Lysimachus" (Copenhagen, 1858), and I have therefore presumed it to be unpublished. The fabric, without being barbarous, is not fine when compared with the better pieces of money issued by this king. The obverse is very similar to the coin figured on pl. ii., No. 5, of Müller, which is struck at Byzantium, and I think that there is very little doubt that our present coin was struck there also, as the monogram reads IIY. The whole of the broad base of the throne is visible, and certainly never had any letter or symbol upon it. About the exergue it is not so easy to speak positively; but I think that a better spread specimen would show that it also was plain. Tetradrachms of Alexander, struck at Byzantium, likewise read IIY in monogram (though differing in form from the monogram on this coin), and have no other symbol or letters in addition to the legend. About the form of the genitive a few words shall be added. Our information is derived principally from the regal series, especially the Macedonian. On the coins of the early kings of Macedonia the form in O is always, so far as I know, employed in the genitive instead of OY. Thus Alexander I., Archelaus, Aëropus, and Alexander II.,2 have left coins reading AAEEANAPO, АРХЕЛАО, АЕРОПО. On the money of Philip II. the termination or appears, for the first time, so far as I 1 A king named Amadocus, who reigned about 390 B.C., in Thrace, is said by Sestini to have left coins with the legend ΑΜΑΔΟΚΟ. This is quite probable; but he assigns other coins with the legend AMAAOKOY to the same king. I suspect that they belong to a later Amadocus. (See Smith's Dict., Gr. and Rom. Biogr. s.v.) 2 The remark is made on the authority of Sestini (Class. Gen. p. 39), who gives no other legend. Mionnet (vol. i. p. 509), indeed, refers to a coin attributed to this king, reading AAEANAPOY. It is figured by Dumersan in his catalogue of M. Allier's collection (pl. v. fig. 4). But a more archaic-looking coin, ascribed by M. Dumersan to the same king (pl. v. fig. 3), has ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ. I now see that M. Müller (Num. d'Alex., p.20) ascribes the former coin to Alexander the Great. See also his valuable note at p. 23. am aware. The other form now becomes extremely rare, and I have no recollection of having ever seen or read of more than one coin which clearly reads IП.3 It is a gold stater, preserved in the British Museum, and has the same symbol as No. 301 of L. Müller's catalogue of Philip II.'s coins, which he classes among the uncertain. His son and successor, Alexander the Great, has left an immense multitude of coins; and these, with very few exceptions, read AAE ANAPOY; but at the same time we do find lingering traces of the form ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ. Thus in the Thomas collection Mr. Burgon notes that a gold stater of Alexander with a griffin in the field (probably struck at Abdera or at Teos) reads "AAEZANAPO, sic.," and I have lately seen a specimen with the same symbol, recently sent over from Greece, which bears every appearance of having the same legend; though I could not affirm quite positively that the Y might not be off the coin. Mionnet likewise mentions a silver tetradrachm reading AAEZANAPO, which he (Suppl. vol. iii. p. 207) assigns to Pitane, in Mysia, but which Müller (No. 378) attributes to Thrace. I have seen a gold coin. with the same symbol, where the Y was likewise not visible, but which I also suspect might have appeared on a more fully spread specimen. A very clear and undoubted example of this legend is figured by M. Müller (Numismatique d'Alexandre le Grand, tab. ii. n. 12. Copenhagen, 8 Mionnet, indeed (Suppl. vol. iii., p. 186), mentions a gold stater of barbarous fabric, reading IAHO. See also vol. i., p. 511 and p. 515. But little can be inferred from such coins, except, perhaps, that the genitive in O survived somewhat longer among barbarous tribes than elsewhere. 4 He likewise refers (Suppl. vol. iii., p. 199) to Neumann for a coin reading... EZANAPO; but it is possible that the Y may have been off the coin. See his figure. 1855) on a coin of Alexander, struck at Odessus; which is so much the more fortunate as it appears to have been struck some time after the death of Alexander.5 I have not seen any later regal coin of Macedonia or Thrace where the genitive ends in O, with the single exception of the coin above described, which is as clear and undoubted an authority as can be desired. No coin of Lysimachus in the British Museum has such a legend." Little need be said of the older form on the civic coins. An early coin of Metapontum has AXEAOIO AOAON, i.e. 'Axελov ã¤λov (see Millingen, "Ancient Coins of Greek Cities and Kings," pl. 1, No. 21, Lond., 1831; and Leake's "Num. Hell. Italy," p. 128). Millingen may be right in thinking that a coin of Cnidus reads EOBOAO (i.e. Eißoúλov), but it is evident from his figure, (pl. v., No. 16, of the same work), and from an impression of the coin now before me, that Σ or Y may be off the coin. A few coins of Abdera exhibit magistrates' names ending in O in the genitive, e.g., EIII MEAANIIIIIO; and besides 5 Since this paper was written I have examined all the coins of Alexander in the British Museum and in Colonel Leake's collection, and some others also. Some few specimens look as though they may have read AAEZANAPO, but I can refer to none with confidence. 6 Sestini (Class. Gen., p. 42) assigns a coin to Demetrius, tyrant of Illyricum, about 220 B.C. ?, which reads AHMHTPIO. He does not describe the type, and Mionnet had never seen it. He also (Ibid., p. 35) mentions a coin of Cotys III. and Sadales II. of Thrace, who reigned about 60 B.C., which is said to read AAAAO. But on the coins of Sadales only the legend is ZAAAAOY. It is probable, therefore, that the Y is "off" the former coin. I much doubt whether ΣAAAAH would form AAAAO at all. Seuthes, the Satrap, contemporary of Xenophon, has ZEYOA APTYPION on his coins (De Luynes, Num. des. Satr., t. vi.); another Seuthes, who reigned just before Lysimachus, struck money with the legend ΣEYOOY (Sestini, Class. Gen., 34). |