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154: E. S. G. KOBINSON.
under more than one magistrate. Compare, for example,
under 0EYEI AEYS, M. i. 184 with M. i. 185 ; under
I ASniM, M. i. 189 with the stater in the Warren (Greeiiwell)
Collection, PL xxxi. 1349 ; and under HOAIAN
0EYS, M. i. 192 with "Warren (Greenwell), PL xxxi.
1347. There is no corresponding distinction of fabric
in the case of the other magistrates ;
but these employ
only one obverse die each for all their staters which I
have examined. On all coins of the broad style and
spread fabric, from APIZTAFOPAS to HOAIAN0EYS,
the horses are walking ; on all of the other style and
fabric, from XAlPEftN downwards (except possibly
under AAMflNAKTOS, and at the very end under
f"IOAIAN0EY), they are galloping. Again, the magistrate's
name is in the nominative on XAIPEnN's
staters and on the dumpy stater of IAHN (M. i. 189),
but these are the only two instances of this usage in
the whole series. Finally, on the last-mentioned stater
the Zeus though seated is Ammon, as on the rest
of the same fabric, not Lycaeus as on the coins of
spread fabric.
It seems to be more than chance which connects
the groups of the thick and of the spread fabric,
each with itself, and contrasts them with each
other. Little as we know about the organization of
the Greek mints, it looks as if we had here to do
with two separate officinae, which worked at irregular
intervals, and independently of each other. Such a
theory would explain, for example, the issues of
0EY4>EIAEY3. Under this magistrate we have coins
of both fabrics. Of the spread fabric one obverse die
is used in connexion with three reverse dies, the same
die being used by his predecessor KYAIO30 - -, and