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ROYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 9copper of the league have yet been published, although thesilver is very common.8. Lacedaemon. Bearded head r., showing markedindividuality and evidently a portrait, not the usual conventionalhead of Herakles. Rev. A A. Club and magistrate'sname. Possibly a portrait of Eurycles.Mr. C. T. Seltman read a paper on "The Influence ofAgathocles on the Coinage of Magna Graecia," in which hecalled attention to a number of coins of Metapontum andVelia bearing the triskeles, the symbol of Agathocles, andpresumably struck by him. Among the coins described byMr. Selfcman was one of Metapontum with obverse type of abarbarous style, bearing a legend which he believed to bePhoenician, and explained as such.Sir Arthur Evans pointedout that the inscription was really Greek, being AEZ writtenretrogade, a reading which was supported byMr. Earle Fox.(This Paper is published in this volume, pp. 1-13.)Mr. H. A. Grueber read an account of a find of long-crosspennies recently made at Palmer's Green which threwadditional light on the chronology of the period.is published in this volume, pp. 70-97.)(This paperDECEMBER 21, 1911.SIR HENRY H. HOWORTH, K.C.I.E., F.R.S., F.S.A., President,in the Chair.The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.The following Presents received since the last meeting wereannounced and thanks were ordered to be sent to the donors :1. A rupee of Siva Simha, King of Assam. Presented by tlieGovernment of Eastern Bengal and Assam.2. Journal of Hellenic Studies, xxxi., Pt. 2.3. Monatsblatt der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Wien.No. 340.