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coins in the extreme East as his father's representative. Possibly
at some future time corroborative numismatic evidence will be
forthcoming.
In another paper Professor Gardner publishes a tetradrachm
bearing the name of Andragoras, of whom he had published a
gold stater, in the " Numismatic Chronicle " for 1879, bearing
the same monogram. Unfortunately there is nothing conclusive
in the type or legend to determine its Parthian origin. The
head on the obverse is that of a city, and not of a deity or king.
Some other remarkable ,
coins
from the collection of Mr.
Alexander Grant are described in the same paper.
Professor Gardner's third essay concerning Floral Patterns
on Archaic Greek Coins is of a more speculative nature. In it
he advances the view that the device on the early coins of
Corcyra and some of its colonies which many
of the elder
numismatists have regarded as representing the gardens of
Alcinoiis, are merely a floral representation. The connection
between the rose and the worship of Apollo as a sun-god is
undoubted, and as the author further points out, other flowers
were connected with the cultus of other divinities. On coins of
Gyrene, Cyme, and other towns, floral ornaments seem to occur,
and on some varieties of the coins of Corcyra itself, petals with
stamens between them can be traced. When, however, a
type is so obscure that some authors regard it as the repre-
sentation of a garden, others as a fortuitous collection of
strokes, and others again as the stars of the Dioscuri, it is
evident that any intei-pretation will not be at once accepted
by all, though probably all will agree
in Professor Gardner's
conviction that the type is not without meaning. Taking into
account the marvellous artistic skill of the early Greek coin-
engravers, the question why
in this instance it is so hard to
recognise what they intended to represent is almost as perplexing
as the design on the coins itself.
Another important paper on Greek numismatics is a
supplementary note on the Coinage of Ephesus by our
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