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The above maximum and minimum weights are those of the coins mentioned in the present article, and may not represent the highest and lowest elsewhere published.

PHOENICIAN STANDARD.

STATERS (a) Early, 220 grs.

1. Obv.-Two lions' heads adv. in opposite directions separated by a fish-shaped line; the whole in an incuse enclosed in an oval frame.

Rev.-Three incuse depressions; the central one oblong, the others square.

[Pl. X. 1]. El. 219-50. (Whittall.)1

This remarkable stater may be conjecturally assigned either to Miletus or Sardes. It probably belongs to the first half of the seventh century B.C.

2. Obv.-Lion with open jaws recumbent r., looking 1., within an oblong frame of Maeander pattern. (Thrice struck.)

Rev.-Three incuse depressions; in the left-hand square,

a stag's head r., in the central oblong a fox run-
ning 1., and ..; in the right hand square X.
[Pl. X. 2]. El. 214-90. (Lawson.)

I would attribute this coin to the same period as the preceding, and preferably to Miletus. The types are the same as those of the half stater engraved in Num. Chron., 1875, Pl. VIII. 4. The mark on the reverse, which occurs also on the half stater, cannot be considered as a mark of value. Whether the stag's head and the fox are to be interpreted as symbolical respectively of the Ephesian Artemis and the Lydian Dionysos (Bassareus), as has been suggested by F. Lenormant, is a doubtful point.

STATERS (8) Later, 220 grs.

3. Obr.-Cock walking r., above, floral ornament; the whole in a circle of dots.

Rev.-Quadripartite incuse square.

[Pl. X. 3]. El. 215-79. (Bank collection.)

The names in parentheses are those of the cabinets from which the coins have passed into the British Museum.

The cock is the well-known type of the coins of Dardanus, on the Hellespont (Head, Hist. Num., 471), where possibly this stater may have been struck; but it may be questioned whether the types on the staters of Class B are those of cities at all. The great similarity of the style and fabric of these coins suggests the possibility of their having all been struck at one mint, which, like Cyzicus, may have adopted a fresh type for each new issue. It seems to belong to a much later period than Nos. 1 and 2, though I see no reason why it may not be assigned to as early a date as the beginning of the fifth century B.C.

4. Obv.-Horse prancing 1., beneath, flower; the whole in circle of dots.

Rev.-Quadripartite incuse square.

[Pl. X. 4]. El. 215.17. (Bank collection.)

The attribution to Cyme in Aeolis of this very rare stater, which I have, perhaps too confidently, ventured to suggest (Hist. Num., p. 479), is not by any means certain.

5. Obv.-Sow r.

Rev.-Quadripartite incuse square.

[Pl. X. 5]. El. 216·12. (Bank collection.)

With great hesitation I would assign this coin to Methymna, in Lesbos; cf. the silver stater with a boar on the obverse, and the legend MA@VMNAIOZ (Brit. Mus. Guide, Pl. XI. 27).

6. Obv.-Forepart of winged boar r.

Rev.-Quadripartite incuse square.

[Pl. X. 6]. El. 217-37. (Lawson.)

Coins of this type are usually attributed to Clazomenae, in Ionia (cf. Aelian, Hist. an., xii. 38), but as they bear

no inscriptions, except the single letter K on the reverse of some A hemidrachms of a somewhat later date, we can only accept it with extreme caution.

7. Obv.-Eagle 1., with head turned back standing on hare; the whole in circle of dots.

Rev.-Quadripartite incuse square.

[Pl. X. 7]. El. 217-52. (Whittall.)

This coin, attributed conjecturally to Abydus (Hist. Num., 468), differs from the specimen engraved, Num. Chron. 1875, Pl. VII. 7, in that it has no dolphin in the field, and that the eagle on this specimen stands upon a hare.

8. Obv.-Forepart of winged horse bridled 1.; above, floral ornament.

Rev.-Quadripartite incuse square.

[Pl. X. 8]. El. 215-72. (Whittall.)

Although this stater bears the same type as the one which I engraved, Num. Chron., 1875, Pl. VII. 8, and there attributed to Lampsacus, it is from a different die. Both these coins are distinctly earlier in date than the electrum staters of Lampsacus, weighing 237 grs. (cf. Brit. Mus. Guide, Pl. X. 23, and Num. Chron., 1876, Pl. VIII. 31, and the two staters of the Lampsacene standard described below, Nos. 89, 90). The attribution of the staters of Asiatic weight to Lampsacus is therefore exceedingly doubtful.

HALF-STATERS (a) Early, 110 grs.

9. Obv.-Stellate flower with eight rays and double circle with pellet in centre.

Rev. Cruciform incuse.

[Pl. X. 9]. Dark El. 109 05. (Whittall.)

The floral star, which may be an early form of the starlike flower of eight petals, which is the well-known type of the silver drachms of Erythrae, struck in the fifth century B.C. (Hist. Num. p. 499), seems to indicate that city as the probable place of mintage of this remarkable hemistater. M. J. P. Six has pointed out to me that the cruciform incuse is the result of a second stroke from a single oblong punch.

10. Obv.-Floral device consisting of three silphium-flowers (?) with a bud in the space between each; the whole forming a raised circular boss, outside which is a circle of dots.

Rev.-Incuse square.

[Pl. X. 10]. Dark El. 109-49. (Dr. Weber.)

If the flowers on this coin are rightly interpreted as those of the silphium plant, there can be little doubt that it should be assigned to Cyrene. M. Babelon (Rev. Num., 1885, Pl. XV. 1), has already published a coin undoubtedly of Cyrene, which he says is composed of pure gold. It weighs 110 grs., and may be compared with advantage with the present specimen. The arrangement of the floral device is, however, quite different.

11. Obr.-Pattern consisting of a raised and ornamented square within a frame.

Rev.-Incuse square.

[Pl. X. 11]. Dark El. 108-42. (Whittall.)

I can offer no suggestion with regard to the precise attribution of this curious hemi-stater. As, however, it was acquired by Mr. Whittall, presumably at Smyrna, it is probable that it was struck by some city on the west coast of Asia Minor.

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