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unique pieces of Polyxenos, a king whose existence is as yet
only authenticated by these two pieces. It does not seem
superfluous in this connexion to quote Mr. Whitehead's
reminder that "it is a mistake to suppose that the Greek
princes of the Panjab and the North West Frontier were the
direct successors of Alexander the Great". Alexander, as
a matter of fact, did not leave behind him any permanent
settlements in India, and the second Greek invasion of
India, which left enduring monuments, came over a century
after his death from the Seleukid Province of Bactriana.
The second volume of the Lahore Catalogue deals with
the coins of the Mughal Emperors, a subject to which
Mr. Whitehead had already made many valuable contribu-
tions.
Mr. Walters has favoured us with a first communication
describing rare and unpublished Roman coins in his collec-
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tion. Among the most remarkable of these is a medallion '
of Nero of the usual Ostia type but of the wholly unparalleled
weight of four sesterces. Another unique piece of the same
Emperor, a sestertius presenting on its reverse Victory
holding a palm-branch and a figure of Roma, bears a bust of
Nero crowned with a wreath of exceptional composition in
which Mr. Hill recognizes the bay, olive, and pine, respectively
representing the Delphian, Olympian, and Isthmian
games.
In a paper on the portraits of Empresses
of the Con-
stantinian Age, Monsieur Jules Maurice replies to Mr. Percy
Webb's objections to his attribution of the coins reading
HELENA N f to a younger Helena, wife of Crispus. He
cites Dr. Delbrueck's recent attribution of a bust in the
Museo dei Conservatori at Rome to St. Helena as new
evidence of her most characteristic coiffure with the broad
woollen band very different from the simple arrangement
of the hair on coins bearing the legend HELENA N f. He
shows that "there are three altogether characteristic types
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