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QUAESTIONES CYKENAICAE. 101
ethnic, and those with neither magistrate's name nor
ethnic. I am inclined to think that many coins which
at first sight seem to fall into [one or other of these
classes, especially the second, do so only through their
condition ;
in fact, I can find no tetradrachm of which
it can be definitely stated that it has no inscription on
either side. Of three in the British Museum which
seem to be such, the first is in very worn condition, and
the other two (the heads on which greatly resemble
some of those on coins of Nikis) are so badly struck that
though there is no ethnic the place where we should
expect the magistrate's name is off the coin. Of those
with a magistrate's name, but no ethnic, we may
reasonably assume that when the name occurs also defi-
nitely at Gyrene or at Barce the coin may be assigned
to that place. When the name does not occur else-
where, the question becomes practically insoluble: of
such coins three are worthy of discussion.
52. Obv. Silphium plant with two whorls and five umbels.
Rev. Head of Zeus Ammon r. (very rough work) ;
behind A circular incuse.
;
n
B. M. (double-struck.) JR. 0-95. Wt. 205-2 grs.
Samian tetradrachm.
This piece has already been published by Miiller, 80
who regarded the inscription on the reverse as being
ui, and therefore assigned the coin to the Macae, a
Libyan
lower letter is really a double struck T (retrograde),
and with that vital letter gone Miiller's construction
tribe. But a closer examination shows that the
80 M. i. 344.