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QUAESTIONES CYRENAICAE. 91
No. 37 belongs to another anonymous group, examples
of which are probably the commonest coins of Barce.
The style of the head of Ammon is coarse, the hair
and beard freely treated in luxuriant curls, the eye
heavy, with the pupil strongly
marked. The head is
still on the reverse. The whorls of the silphium are
of the kind already noted under Nos. 29 and 30. The
style is freer than on No. 32, though not so good ; the
inscription has followed the silphium plant on to the
obverse. Coins of this class lead into and doubtless
overlap the series bearing magistrates' names, which
we may now discuss.
The magistrates already recognized at Barce are
4>AIN- -, KAINin, KYYEAH Til OlAnN(O^),
and AKEIO, to these I would add the uncertain
name flfl ? on No. 36 above, and AAAI .
The earliest magistrate seems to be AIN . With
this name we have one tetradrachm at Paris (Muller,
i. 317), and the following drachm.
88. Obv. Silphium with two whorls (of three leaves),
seven umbels, and root ; V\
I A
Eev.~ Head of bearded Ammon r., transitional style,
hair loose ; in front SAB } dotted circle ;
circular incuse.
B. M. M. -75. Wt. 50-2 grs. Samian drachm
(misnumbered 36 on Plate IV).
The style of the head of Ammon recalls No. 30 of
the last period, though it has not the same peculiar
treatment of the horn. To these two coins I would
add the following tetradrachm from Parma.
39. Obv. Silphium plant with two whorls and seven
umbels, at the base of which a recumbent
gazelle: in field 1. upwards. MIO.