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30 PKOCEEDINGS OF THEcarefully selective spirit in which Mr. McClean formed his collection.Two papers contributed by Mr. Grose to the presentvolume of the Numismatic Chronicle are based on this material.Amongthe coins of the series discussed in Mr. Grose'srecent communications many derive a specialhavingbeen restruck. Certaininterest fromconclusions with regard tothe relative antiquity of types may, in nearly all cases, bedrawn from this phenomenon, and judgements formed fromstyle alone must occasionally be revised on this ground.Mr. Grose, for instance, seems to have demonstrated that a didrachmtype of Metapontion showing the head of Leukipposin a Corinthian helmet is struck over an earlier date withthe head of Nike and the inscription NIKA a type whichis placed in the Historia Numorum after thatwith the helmetedhead of the Achaean hero.The overstriking of a Terinaean type on a stater ofNeapolis is interesting as supplying a new numismatic connexionbetween the two cities otherwise illustrated by theNike on the hydria seen on a rare Neapolitan obol. Fromthe occurrence of two drachms of the Campanian mercenariesat Entella, both overstruck on coins of Katane dating fromabout 404 B. c. ,Mr. Grose draws the very probable conclusionthat the free horse with the grain of corn below it,which here already appears as a type of these mercenaries, hasnothing to do with Timoleon's capture of Entella in 342,but must be regarded as having been borrowed fromthe Siculo-Punic coinage. The appearance of a hybrid typewith a female head and the legend [ZYPAKJOZION,coupled with a quadriga and the inscription Ziz, in Punicletters, suggests reasonable doubts as to whether it shouldbe attributed to Syracuse or Panormos.On one coin described by Mr. Grose, the noble tetradrachmof Katane with the river fish swimming upwardshead of Apollo, I may be allowed to speak a littlebeside themore atlength. Mr. Grose does not express too strong an opinion