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PREFACE BY THE KEEPER OF COINS.
This volume of the Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British
Museum contains the coinages of Lycia, Pamphylia and Pisidia.
The whole work is by Mr. G. F. Hill, M.A., Assistant in the
Department of Coins and Medals.
The classification both chronological and geographical of the coins
of Lycia, as well as the interpretation of many of the inscriptions
upon them, is still a matter of much uncertainty.
The explanations of the Lycian coin-legends, as originally
suggested by Fellows in 1855, have been recently proved to be
to a great extent erroneous, by Schmidt (Zeitsch. fur vergleich.
Sprachforschung, ed. Kuhn und Schmidt, Bd. xxv., p. 449), and
by Savelsberg (Beitrage zur Entzifferung der lykischen Sprach·
denkmaler, 1874-1878).
The first systematic arrangement of the Lycian coinage was
proposed by M. Six (Revue Numismatigue, 1886-7), and M. Babeion,
in his Perses Aehemenides, 1893, has in the main accepted M. Six's
suggestions.
All these authorities have been carefully examined by the author
of the present work, who has also had the advantage of consulting
Mr. W. Arkwright and other scholars with regard to the correct
rendering of the more doubtful Lycian characters.
The Map which accompanies the volume has been prepared by
Mr. B. V. Darbishire, under the supervision of Mr. Hill. No single
This volume of the Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British
Museum contains the coinages of Lycia, Pamphylia and Pisidia.
The whole work is by Mr. G. F. Hill, M.A., Assistant in the
Department of Coins and Medals.
The classification both chronological and geographical of the coins
of Lycia, as well as the interpretation of many of the inscriptions
upon them, is still a matter of much uncertainty.
The explanations of the Lycian coin-legends, as originally
suggested by Fellows in 1855, have been recently proved to be
to a great extent erroneous, by Schmidt (Zeitsch. fur vergleich.
Sprachforschung, ed. Kuhn und Schmidt, Bd. xxv., p. 449), and
by Savelsberg (Beitrage zur Entzifferung der lykischen Sprach·
denkmaler, 1874-1878).
The first systematic arrangement of the Lycian coinage was
proposed by M. Six (Revue Numismatigue, 1886-7), and M. Babeion,
in his Perses Aehemenides, 1893, has in the main accepted M. Six's
suggestions.
All these authorities have been carefully examined by the author
of the present work, who has also had the advantage of consulting
Mr. W. Arkwright and other scholars with regard to the correct
rendering of the more doubtful Lycian characters.
The Map which accompanies the volume has been prepared by
Mr. B. V. Darbishire, under the supervision of Mr. Hill. No single