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GREEK COINS ACQUIRED BY BRITISH MUSEUM. 15CAKIA.Kev.Alab<strong>and</strong>a.OAVT KAI T AIAAAPIANO OANTHNjNOCVC Bust r. <strong>of</strong> Pius, laureate, undraped.Border <strong>of</strong> dots.OCTTI^ANii.lOVAl A NAPflNOCAPXON<strong>and</strong>inex. [AA]ABANAl[n]N YoungDionysos, draped, st<strong>and</strong>ing to front, head 1.,1.resting on thyrsos, r. holding kantharos, towhich a pan<strong>the</strong>r leaps up. Border <strong>of</strong> dots.JE. j 39-5 mm. Wt. 4914 grains (31-84 grammes).[PI. II. 8.] Presented by Mr. W. H. Buckler.On <strong>the</strong> magistrate, whose name seems tohave beenGaius lulius Anicius Andron, see Imho<strong>of</strong>-Blumer,Kleinas. Miinzen, i, p. 107, No. 10.Alinda.Obv. Head <strong>of</strong> young Herakles r., wearing lion-skin.Rev. AAINAE - on r. downwards. Herakles, nude,st<strong>and</strong>ing to front, holding club upwards in r.,lion-skin on 1. arm ;in field 1. T ;all in oakwreath.M. f 22-5 mm. Wt. 109-7 grains (7-11 grammes).Broken. [PI. II. 7.]A smaller denomination (2-08 grms.) <strong>of</strong> silver <strong>of</strong> thismint ispublished by Imho<strong>of</strong>-Blumer. 30 Our coin,which is not complete, was probably an Attic didrachm,<strong>the</strong> smaller denomination being a hemidrachm. <strong>The</strong>st<strong>and</strong>ing Herakles recurs in <strong>the</strong> same position as atype on coins <strong>of</strong> Imperial date, <strong>and</strong> was probablya local statue.30 Kleinas. Miinzen, i, p. 106, No. 1, Taf. iv. 5.

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