opinion of the style and fabric of the piece than is possible from the outline sketch given in the text; but even this is sufficient to show that the coin is contemporary with the tetradrachms of Athens of the new style, on which the reverse type is enclosed in an olive-wreath. The fashion of surrounding the reverse type with a wreath is, if our memory serves us rightly, quite unexampled in the period to which M. Babelon would assign the coin, whereas in the next century it is of frequent occurrence, cf. B.M. Guide, Plates XLI., 7; XLII., 11, 12, 20, 21; XLIII., 23-25, 32; XLVIII., 6, 7; XLIX., 10, 13-15; L., 17-20; LI., 25, 26; LII., 30; LIV., 9—12; LV., 16-18, 20, 21, 23 -27; LVI., 30-32, 34, 36, &c., &c. Most, if not all, of these coins are subsequent to B.C. 220.

3. Th. Reinach. Essay on the numismatics of the kings of Bithynia. This is an article which deserves a fuller notice than we are able to give it on the present occasion. In this first instalment the author deals chiefly with the silver money of Nicomedes I, Prusias I, and Prusias II, in the classification of which he has little to add to what has already been published on the subject. We look forward to the completion of this essay for more light upon the obscure series of copper coins, which no one has yet succeeded in attributing with certainty to the reigns in which they were issued.

4. E. Lépaulle. Marinianus and Saloninus.

5. L. Blancard. On the florin of Provence.

6. P. Lambros. On inedited coins of the Dukes of Naxos. 7. J. J. Guiffrey. The Medal Mint, a metallic history of Louis XIV and Louis XV, based on unpublished documents in the national archives. Part II. Engravers, Pierre Aury, Thomas Bernard, Carlsten, Cheron, Clerion, Dollin, Dufour, and the two Duviviers.

The part concludes with biographical notices, among which we may call especial attention to M. Ch. Robert's review of M. Mowat's article in the Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions, t. xiv., 1887, on the explanation of the monoX gram on the reverse of ce: tain bronze coins of the Emperors Constantine I, Licinius, and Martinianus, and of the Cæsars, Crispus, Constantine II, and Licinius II.

The Annuaire de Numismatique, March-April, 1887, contains the following articles ::

1. J. A. Blanchet. Documents illustrating the monetary history of Navarre and Béarn.

2. R. Serrure. The feudal mint of Lens, in Artois.

3. P. C. Robert. Coins, jetons, and medals of the bishops of Metz.

The part concludes with a list of the prices fetched at the famous sale of the collection of Roman gold coins of the Vicomte de Ponton d'Amécourt.

The Annuaire de Numismatique, May-June, 1887, contains the following articles :

1. E. Revillout. Second letter to M. Lenormant on the coinage of Egypt. M. Revillout cites numerous Demotic papyri, in which mention is made of the rate of interest established by law in Egypt, whence it appears that 30 per cent., and not 12 per cent., as Letronne supposed, was the legal rate.

2. A. Oreschnikow. On a bronze coin of Mithradates the Great. Obv. Head of Asklepios, Rev. Serpent twined round a tree, and with the letters BA MI in the field.

3. E. Demole. On an unpublished aureus of the Emperor Quintillus, with reverse type FIDES MILIT.

4. P. C. Robert. Coins, jetons, and medals of the bishops. of Metz.

5. A. de Belfort. On an unpublished aureus of the Emperor Postumus, with reverse type AEQVITAS AVG.

The part for July-August contains:

1. A. de Belfort.

Cohen's work.

2. A. Changarnier.

3. J. Hermerel.

Roman Imperial coins not described in

On drachms of the Pictavi.

On the numismatics of Lorraine.

4. A. Puschi. The mint of the Patriarchs of Aquileia. 5. H. Sauvaire. On an 'Alide dirhem of Gilan.

In the Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, August, 1886, is a notice of a recent find of coins at Taranto, consisting of coins of Tarentum and staters of Philip and Alexander of Macedon, and in the same periodical (January, 1887) is an account of coins of Latium and Campania, found during the excavations on the site of the Temple of Diana at Nemi by Signor L. Borsari.

In the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries Mr. Cecil H. Smith has an article on gems bearing the figure of Apollo of Kanachos. Cf. the coins of Miletus.

In the Revue Archéologique, May-June, 1887, M. R. Mowat has an interesting paper, entitled Inscriptions osques ornées d'images de monnaies. B. V. H.

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