The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 7
2. Revue Beige de Numismatique. 1881. l re livraison.
From the Society.
8. The Ancient Coins of Norwich. By H. W. Henfrey, Esq.
From the Author.
4. Notes on a denarius of Augustus Caesar. By H. Phillips,
Esq., junior. From the Author. .
Mr. Evans exhibited two silver staters of Aradus in Phoenicia :
obv. head of Melkarth bearded and laureate ; rev. S!2 in
Phoenician characters, galley with rowers on the sea. The two
letters on these coins were supposed by Mr. Evans to
" Melek Arvad," King of Aradus.
stand for
Mr. A. Grant sent for exhibition a number of gold, silver,
and copper coins, procured by him in the Punjab, and supposed
to have formed part of the Oxus find. The most remarkable
among them were the following: 1. A double daric of the
time of Alexander the Great, with the letter and a bunch of
grapes on the obverse. 2. Two beautiful gold staters of
Antiochus I., with the head of the horned horse Bucephalus on
the reverse. 3. Several tetradrachms, &c., of Seleucus
Nicator, with a quadriga of elephants on the reverse. 4. A
gold stater of Antiochus II., with the types of Diodotus : obv.
head of Diodotus; rev. BAZIAEI2Z ANTIOXOY, Zeus
with aegis wielding thunderbolt, at his feet an eagle : a coin in
all respects except the king's name identical with the usual staters
of Diodotus, and interesting as proving that Diodotus placed his
portrait on the coinage before he ventured to issue it in his own
name. 5. A copper coin of Seleucus I. : obv. head of one of
the Dioscuri ; rev. fore part of Bucephalus, a type alto-
gether new.
Mr. B. V. Head read a paper " On a Himyarite Tetradrachm
of the second century B.C.," imitated from a coin of Alexander
the Great, but inscribed in the Himyaritic character with the
name of a king, Ab-yatha, not mentioned by any of the writers
on the ancient history of Southern Arabia. See " Numismatic
Chronicle," N.S., Vol. xx. p. 803.