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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.

PLATE II.

GREEK CIVIC COINS.

No. 1. Silver of Velia, from an exquisite specimen in the possession of Mr. Till.-No. 2. Silver of Neapolis. Nos. 3, 4, and 5. Silver of Aradus, Macedon, and Syracuse. No. 4 was struck after Macedon became a Roman province, when it was divided into four parts; hence ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ ΠΡΟΤΗΣ on the reverse.

PLATE III.

GREEK REGAL COINS.

It will be scarcely necessary to mention that the coins in this plate are not placed in chronological order.No. 1. A Tetradrachm of Ptolemy Soter.-No. 2. A Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great.-No. 3. Silver of one of the Arsacidæ, or Parthian monarchs.-No. 4. A Drachma of Ariobarzanes King of Cappadocia.-No. 5. Brass of Hiero I. of Syracuse.

PLATE IV.

ROMAN IMPERIAL COINS.

No. 1. Second Brass of Domitian.-No. 2. Colonial Coin of Macrinus, struck at Berytus in Phoenicia. The head is very unlike those on the Latin coins of this prince, and it is pretty evident that the busts on the coins of the Roman Emperors struck in their colonies were not authentic portraits; witness those of Probus, which are totally different from the heads on his coins struck at