The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

QUAESTIONES CYRENAICAE. 141
to about the year 390, and the staters of the Chalcidian
League are not much later. The new gold
issue at
Gyrene is another instance, and falls
chronologically
into line with the rest. "We may win confirmation of
this by examining the silver series. Most (though
unfortunately not all) of the magistrates whose names
occur on the gold are represented on the silver as well,
and there are none of them whom for reasons of style
we should put as early as Nikis or Aristomedes. Of
this gold coinage the denominations are
Stater 133-5 grs.
Drachm 66-5 .,
Triobol 34
Tenth 13-3
the first and last being the commonest. 89 The
magistrates whose names we find on staters are
APirTAfOPA, XAIPE0HN, AAMHNAKTOS,
KYAIOS0, eEYEIAEY5, IA5ONO5, KYXAIPIO5,
XAIPIO5, nOAIAN0EY5, while a tenth of rather
early style has the name APlTIO (which also appears
on the silver tetradrachms) and another reads KY0 .
There are, besides, two drachms struck from altered
dies, on each of which traces of the old name show
through, and in one case this
be already familiar.
name does not seem to
It is, I think, possible by a comparison
of dies and
by other arguments to establish within certain limits the
89
There is a coin in the Catalogue of a Late Collector (Sotheby,
Wilkinson and Hodge, 1900), lot 483 (not illustrated), with the
types of the drachm and inscription XAIPIO^, of which the
weight is given as 44 grains. If both inscription and weight are
rightly given, this would be an anticipation of the tetrobol of
the next period i. (M. 205).