GENERAL Fox's GREEK -COINS.

Addison Road, 25th Novensber 1856. Six—I now send you my replies to the criticisms of your numismatic correspondent, inserted in your last but one number. In his apparently eager wish to enlarge the number of my errors, he has made some himself, though I regret to say that Some are mine, and some are the engraver's and winter's. These I am responsible for and it is chiefly owing to my not being used to correct the press that they have occurred. I hope in future there may be fewer, as my whole object is to let the rare coins I may have be known correctly to the world. I make the following remarks in the same order as your reviewer has ; though by not doing so geographically and as the coins occur in the text, he has rendered the doing so more troublesome. No. 1. Merely requires the parenthesis to include " apparently" as well as " Apollo" : it should stand (Apollo apparently), instead of (Apollo) ap- parently; a very slight error, and it would be better without any paren- thesis at all. No. 2. M. Dardel, the engraver, has made the laurels in No. 1 too de- cidedly ; but they are both, I think, laurels ; which induces nu to consider the head to be of.,ipollo. No. 16. OOTPION is not put in the text, because OOTP CfHly is visible on the coin, which has only the smallest indication of the other letters: it ought, however, to have been printed thus, OOTP.1-1!:'. No. 17. This is an error of omission. The reviewer, however, is wrong in stating that the fish of 17 and 18 are precisely the same : one is a dolphin, the other a sword-fish.

No. 30. This is an error of the press, which I regret to have overlooked. No. 33. Also an error ; MEE should have been put on the coin. No. 34. IIFAL1P1AX is a misprint for I1EASIPIA2. The reverse on the coin is very indistinct; it is given in the plate as on the coin. Nos. 35, 46, 49,62. This is a serious mistake of the person who struck off the plates, who has placed different metals in the plates from what are given in the text.

No. 53. Philippopolis. Your reviewer says that the AYT in the text should be ATP. Neither. Commodus nor any Emperor around whose head this title is placed was ever called Augustus on Greek coins. Augustus in Greek would. be XEBAXTOX. The ATT stands for ATTOKPATOP, often put only AT; often as here, ATT. 'I think I may say that if I have erred sometimes by negligent notation, this is a case of careless or even ignorant criticism. No. 57 is a misprint; the X should be K. But your reviewer is wrong as to the lyre having eight strings. The white lines on it are the strings, which are in relieve on the coin' and there are but seven.

Nos. 62, 63. The name of Alexander is, as stated, emitted on the plats; —a serious fault.

No. 3. There is no error here.

No. 6. No error; both, in my opinion, are As.

No. 15. There is, as stated, a slight difference. but very slight. No. 19. The legend should, as stated, be Latin. The corn is very indis-

tinct ; but iris an error.

No. 23. I seemo mistake here, except the form of a letter ; q instead of p. No. 29. The A is not on the coin, and in the description should have only been dotted A.

No. 30. This is the most important error of all; it is the engraver's fault, but I ought to have observed it : the engraver is a beautiful artist but a poor Hellenist. A letter in No. 31 (description) is also wrong. No. 35. Inscription should be HANOPM1TAN.

Nos. 52-61. Legends not quite correct ; they are, however, very indistinct all the coins. The II in description at 61 should be archaic-P.

No. 14. No error here.

No. 10. Certainly of Laus and not of Cos : if by his reading K002 he raeans that island, would we have KOION or KMON ? The style of coin also is entirely different.

No. 11. As to my "marvellous Hellenism" in reading ETADTI, I only give the inscription as I read it on the coin ; nor do I consider this to be one word, but probably the first syllables of the names of magistrates. There ought in the description to have been a space left between the two syllables.

No. 12. In my opinion certainly a grain of corn, and not, as your reviewer thinks, a vase. I have another coin with the grain more distinctly given. gerapontum was a great granary ; all its silver coins have bearded grains of wheat on theni.

No. 13. This head may be that of Bacchus as I state, but more likely Si- lams. I trust that I have fairly met your criticisms ; and feel much obliged to you for inserting this perhaps too long statement, which must be tedious to ike greater part of your readers.

I am your obedient servant, C. R. Fox. r.s.-I enclose wax impressions of all the coins alluded to.