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MISCELLANEA. 319EUA INARCADIA.KECENT excavations at the Arcadian Orchomenos have,among other results, produced a bronze coin of the ordinarytypes of the Achaean League with the inscription[AXAIflJN EYAEflN, 1 which is accordingly supposed tointroduce to numismatic literature for the first time the cityofEua. The little place lay among the heights of Parnon in theThyreatis, near the border of Arcadia, in which it is placedby Stephanus of Byzantium. 2 This bronze coin is, however,not the first or the only coin of the place to be published,though it is the first to be recognized for what it really is.Professor Oman calls my attention to the fact that a silverhalf-drachm, of the usual Achaean types, with the lettersE Y flanking the monogram, has long been known. 3 Theabsence of any symbol, such as the caduceus which occursin combination with the same letters E Y on a coindoubtless rightly attributed to Pheneus (Clerk, 221), showsthat E Y on this coin must be the mint-name. AccordinglyEua is now provided with both the denominations ofcoinage usually employed by members of the AchaeanLeague.G. F. H.OBITUAKY.CHARLES FRANCIS KEARY.CHARLES FRANCIS KEARY, who died on Oct. 26 last,aged 69, had long ceased to write on numismatic subjects.His appointment to the staff of the Medal Koom of theBritish Museum dated from March 6, 1872. Between thattime and May 1887, when he retired, he contributedfrequently to the Numismatic Chronicle. Even after thatdate he continued to collaborate in the Catalogue ofAnglo-Saxon coins, the second volume of which, the jointproduction of Mr. Grueber and himself, appeared in 1893.And only last year, when the members of the staff of theMedal Koom were removed to spheres more directly connectedwith the war, he gallantly returned to the scene ofBull, de Corr. HelUnique, 1915, p. 118.1See Philippson in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopadie, vi. 817.23M. G. Clerk, Catalogue of the Coins of the Achaean League,No. 222, PI. ix. 2.