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leaf of the lower whorl (which Miiller took for an I)
appears as before. There is no chronological difficulty,
for KYAIOS - - is the first of the group of which
IAONO is the last. In style the horseman on this
coin suits well with the horseman on those of the
previous magistrate 0E[YEIAEY ], M. i. 198. Both
are of a larger style than is usual, and both are turned
to the left a position otherwise unknown in the drachm
from the same obverse die as the
series. Apparently
lA^ONO 98 drachm there is another coin, the reverse
of which reads simply KYPA. In this case there is
no corn-grain on the obverse, which shows that the
obverse die too has been touched up before being used
for No. 68. The coin (M. i. 197), with our Nos. 65,
67, and M. i. 196, forms a group characterized by
the absence of any personal name. The obverse die
of No. 67 is found in three combinations in an order
which its condition allows us to establish as follows,
(1) with a reverse of KYAIO3, (2) with the present reverse
KYPA, and (3) with a reverse of 0E[Y4>EI AEYl).
No. 67 was therefore struck after the regular intro-
duction of magistrates' names on the gold series. The
same must be true of M. i. 197, and almost certainly
of M. i. 195, the arrangement of the legend on which
strongly suggests the drachm of KYAIO, M. i. 198.
Is the omission of a magistrate's name due to accident
or to design? Possibly sudden death may now and
again have caused an interregnum during which urgent
but the general
necessity for money may have arisen ;
run of the series seems rather to indicate carelessness
as a cause.
98 In Paris. M., No. 197. Another splendid example in the
Fenerly Bey Coll. (Egger), PI. xxii. 853.