The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

202 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
as the legitimate representative of the Tarentine silver
stater, one magistrate, Sokannas, struck a half, weighing
about 1 '70 grammes. It presents the same obverse and
reverse types as the larger piece, an unusual but not altogether
unexampled repetition. On the other hand, halves
of the usual kind, such as are still found in the preceding
Period, with the head of Pallas on the obverse and her
owl on the reverse, are at this time wholly wanting;
another proof of the break of continuity in the Tarentine
coinage.
The types of the coins with which we are dealing
themselves afford certain evidence that many of them
belong to a later date than the issues of Period IX. The
remarkable piece (Type D, PI. X. 12) signed !AI APXO * ,
now for the first time published, presents us with the
obverse device of the galloping hippakontist, which,
except that in this instance the warrior is bearded, is
simply an inferior copy of the coin with the same type
signed OAYMP I ^ of Period IX. Another , piece of that
Period, in which the same signature is associated with a
standing horse, has, in like manner, served as prototype
both in the obverse and reverse design for a coin of this
inferior standard, signed by ^HPAMBO^ (Type A;
PI. X. 9). The coin signed SftrENI-U (Type B;
PI. X. 10), on the other hand, which, from its superior
execution, may be one of the earliest of the present class,
reproduces as its obverse design
schemes of the preceding Period IX. ;
one of the most familiar
and Type C again
(PI. X. 11), in which the rider holds a palm, displays a
reminiscence of Type E 1, of the same Period. It is re-
markable, however, that the epigraphy of these late coins
is in some cases more conservative of older forms than
that of the prototypes of the preceding Period. C for ^