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UNPUBLISHED COINS OF ATHENS AND ELEUSIS. 89
already known from the tetradrachms ; one which fur-
nishes a third magistrate's name, Myskellus (?), not pre-
viously known ; while the fifth in the list has the name of
Philo corresponding to the Philod of the same series,
which appears in the above list of tetradrachms, but is not
found in Beule.
Before quitting the subject of the Athenian coinage, I
may take the opportunity to mention a little coin, hitherto,
I believe, unpublished, belonging to the neighbouring
town of Eleusis. It is well known that though in histo-
rical times Eleusis was wholly dependent upon Athens, and
was in fact only a demos of Attica, it enjoyed the privilege
of coining in its own name small copper coins, which are
found in considerable quantities. These, as might be
expected, bear types
with a distinct reference to the
worship of the goddess Demeter, to whose temple Eleusis
was indebted for all its celebrity. B-it they present in
other respects little variety or interest ; the type of the
obverse being uniformly the figure of Demeter or Trip-
tolemus, 14 seated in a winged car, drawn by two serpents,
and on the reverse the sacrificial pig, which was the
victim peculiarly appropriated to the goddess.
The following coin, however, presents a wholly different
type :
Obv. Female head, with long hair (Demeter or the Cora ?)
to the right.
Rev. A vase of the peculiar form known as the pleriiochoe :
: the whole in a
above, the legend EAEYZI
wreath formed by two ears of corn.
JE. size 2J. PI. IV. fig. 5.
described as Demeter or
14 The seated figure is commonly
Ceres (see
the Museum Hunterianurn, Mionnet, &c.) ; but on
some of the best it preserved specimens is undoubtedly a male
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