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2 G. F. HILL.ETBUEIA.Vetulonia ?Obv. Female head r., hair tied in a knot; behind,downwards, CR^Rev. Plain (traces of rosette of pellets and possiblysome other ornament).M. 21 mm. Wt. 122-9 grains (7-96 grammes).[PL I. 1.]The inscription on the obverse, unfortunately incomplete,appears to be Va[tl],i. e. Yetulonia. Bothfabric and (in a faint degree) style recall Syracusancoins of the middle of the fourth century nevertheless;I am inclined to date the coin not earlier than thethird century. Indeed, the head on the obverse mayhave been suggested by the head with waved hair onthe bronze of Agathocles (B. M. C. :Nos. 422 ff.).Sicily,Syracuse,BEUTTIUM.Croton.Obv. 9^9 ( 5 "0 on !upwards. Tripod. Border ofdots.Rev. 9^O on 1. downwards. Tripod. In exergue,NA Border of dots. Incuse circle.JR. / 19mm. Wt. 118-6 grains (7-69 grammes).[PL I. 2.]monogramEarly in the period 480-420 B.C. Theon the reverse does not seem to represent another cityin alliance with Croton, as the subsidiary inscriptionson Crotoniate coins of this period often do.This coin, as Mr. S. W. Grose reminds me, is fromthe same dies as Sir Hermann Weber's specimen(Num. Chron., 1896, p. 5, No. 6, PI. i. 7), and probably