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QUAESTIONES CYKENAICAE. 157
what we should a priori expect, a blundered attempt
at the ethnic. Muller (Additions, vol. iii, p. 188), accept-
ing the reading from Huber's catalogue, very naturally
brings the coin into connexion with the other KOINON
issues, when of course it would be of great importance.
As it is, it gives with No. 72 an instance of a local
imitation of the Cyrenaean issues. Who was responsible
for these imitations cannot be determined, but the
fact that one of them most probably, the other certainly,
came from Egypt would indicate North Africa, and
some Libyan tribe, as their home.
Before leaving the gold series we may shortly
examine two other theories as to the date of the
Cyrenaean gold
issues. The first is due to Sir Arthur
Evans. On p. 62 of his work on Syracusan Medallions
and their Engravers, he argues that the winged
charioteer, occurring occasionally on Sicilian tetradrachms
at the close of the fifth century, is the result
of Cyrenaean influence. This type " stands ... in a very
close relation to a well-marked group of quadriga types
that appear on some contemporary coins of Kyrene . . .
The facing tendency of both horses and chariot, and
the winged charioteers . . . are all found on a fine
series of Kyrenaean gold staters which, from the early
character of their style and epigraphy, must have
been struck about the same period as our Sicilian
pieces, and which in fact mark the flourishing epoch
that ensued on the fall of the Battiadae . . . But,
whereas on the Sicilian dies the recurrence of such
schemes is altogether isolated, in Kyrene they are
obviously at home, and we may even trace the genesis
104 Published in Num. Chron., 1891. The references here given
ai'e to the republication.
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