The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

NOTICES OF RECENT NUMISMATIC PUBLICATIONS.
In the Zeitschrift fur Nitmismatik, Band VIII. Heft IV., are
the following articles :
1. A. v. Sallet. On the oldest Numismatics and History of
Brandenburg.
2. J. Friedlaender. On a denarius of Albert the Bear, Mar-
grave of Brandenburg.
8. A. v. Sallet. On the same.
4. S. Bergsoe. On Danish coins of the eleventh century.
5. F. Bardt. On the Find of coins at Frankfort-on-Oder.
6. H. Oldenberg. On the dates of the older Indian coins
and inscriptions.
7. K. Weil. King Saumakos.
8. R. Weil. On the Parthenos Statue of Pheidias.
9. A. v. Sallet. The denarii of Margrave Albert the Bear, as
Schutzi-oyt of Halberstadt.
Band IX. Heft I., contains the following articles :
1. J. Friedlaender. The acquisitions of the Berlin coincabinet
during the year 1880. The number of coins added to
the collection is not so large as of late years. In the Greek
series is a heavy Aeginetic stater weighing 212 grs. Dr. Friedlaender
supposes this piece to have weighed originally about
224 grs,, and to be in fact a didrachm of the earliest unreduced
Aeginetic standard. If this be so, the reduction of the drachm
from 112 to 96 grs. must have taken place considerably before
the time of Solon, when 100 Attic drachms of 67^ grs. were
equal in value to 73 of the averaging
prae-Solonian Aeginetic drachms
about 92 grs,
The Berlin cabinet has also been fortunate enough to acquire
a good specimen of the didrachm of Alexander of Pherje, in
Thessaly, of which hitherto the British Museum specimen
(Guide to Ancient Coins, PI. XXII. Fig. 21) was the only
example known. The fine head of Hecate or Artemis on this
coin, Dr. Friedlaender, in spite of the ear-ring, ihinks may be
an Apollo.
Among the Imperial coins are two of Antoninus, struck at
Alexandria, the one representing the cleansing of the Augean
stables, the other the slaying of the Amazon Hippolyte.