The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

102 E. S. G. EOBINSON.
falls to the ground. Bompois 81 had already seen,
though on faulty grounds, the inherent improbability
of Mliller's attribution. He brought the coin into connexion
with one in his own collection reading KVPANA,
and behind the head A. This he regarded as the
same as the upper letter on our No. 52, and took both
to be the initial of a magistrate's name, perhaps
AIBY3TPATO5. Not recognizing Miiller's " mem " as
being really a T, he had to explain it as a letter inserted
to give the coin currency in Carthaginian dominions.
But we may doubt very much whether Bompois' coin
ever read A on the reverse at all. There is a coin in
Berlin which as far as one can judge from Bompois'
engraving, is from the same dies, and the " A " behind
the head on this seems to be simply a curl exaggerated
by a slight flaw in the die. If we recognize the second
letter as a H on our No. 52, the first letter cannot be
a consonant, and therefore it must be A. the only
vowel whose shape makes it a possibility. AP
then is almost certainly a magistrate ; the rough,
almost barbarous, style of the coin might lead us to
give the coin to Gyrene rather than to Barce, but such
an attribution can be only tentative.
ing
Besides this coin there is the very fine stater bear-
on the reverse the name AIBY5TPATO3. 82
All
the specimens of it I have seen come from one
obverse and two reverse dies. Miiller (I. c.) suggests
the attribution to Barce for three reasons, (1) the
presence of the uraeus, (2) the symbol
on the obverse
and the magistrate's name on the reverse, which he
compares
with the coin of KYYEAfl TH IAnN
81
Op. cit., pp. 77 seqq.
82 M. i. 41.