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PERIOD XVI. IMPERIAL TIMES.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re can be little doubt that <strong>the</strong> following coins, even<br />

those which are without <strong>the</strong> emperor's head, belong to<br />

imperial times.<br />

THEBKS.<br />

M. t size 4.<br />

sze .<br />

0HB<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> bearded<br />

Herakles.l.laur.<br />

border <strong>of</strong> dots.<br />

[Brit. Mus. PI. VI. 15.]<br />

0HBAI UN.<br />

Female headr.,<br />

turretted <strong>and</strong><br />

laureate.<br />

[Sestini, Mus. Font., PI. IV. 16.]<br />

AYTOKPATHP<br />

TAABAC CB<br />

ACTOC. Head<br />

<strong>of</strong> Galba r.<br />

eniApxi-neMmriAO<br />

Y. Club <strong>and</strong> arrow (or<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r thyrsus) crossed.<br />

eni APXI neMrm<br />

AO Y 30 . Dionysus wearing<br />

long robes st<strong>and</strong>ing r.,<br />

holding kantharos.<br />

With Head <strong>of</strong> Galba, A.D. 6869.<br />

eni APxmeMrm<br />

AOY <strong>and</strong> in an inner<br />

\Berl. Bldtt.<br />

0HBAIHN. Nike on<br />

prow, 1., holding wreath<br />

<strong>and</strong> palm.<br />

Bd. III. p. 167.]<br />

30 <strong>The</strong> reading here given is conjectural. Sestini both in his<br />

Plate <strong>and</strong> in his text has GHBAIHN MFITIAO, which<br />

must, I think, be a misreading. Proke h-Ost. Ined., 1859,<br />

p. 16, in describing a coin which evidently bears <strong>the</strong> same<br />

name, gives it as 111 APXIH eMPlflAOY. Mion. ii.,<br />

p. 110, has ano<strong>the</strong>r coin, obv. head <strong>of</strong> Herakles, r. laur. ; rev.

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