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QUAESTIONES CYKENAICAE. 163
This group of coins stands closely bound together
by weight, legend, types, and style, and it must be
studied as a whole. With it goes a copper coin in
Turin, Obv. Head of Artemis with quiver at shoulder,
and AAMHKYPANA. Rev. Nike flying, r. holding
wreath and taenia. 116
The identity of the head on Nos. 76-8 is open to
doubt. The first of the coins to be published (the
Paris specimen of No. 78) is in such poor condition,
and has besides received such rough usage, that the
features at first sight do not much resemble those of
the Imhoof specimen. This is due to a blow which
can be traced slantwise across the neck, and to the
spreading of a crack in the die in front of the forehead.
Thus disfigured the head was taken by Miiller to
be a portrait of Ptolemy I, with which the low weight
of the coin seemed to agree. A glance, however, at
the head on the Imhoof coin is enough to gainsay
this attribution, and the abnormally low weight is
sufficiently accounted for by poorness of condition.
Svoronos, who published No. 76, 117 calls the head
Apollo. Imhoof in publishing his specimen of No. 78
prefers Dionysos. 118 The crucial factors are the wreath
and symbol; as appears from Nos. 76-7 the latter
cannot be a thyrsos, can in fact only be a quiver.
The wreath is more obscure, though it seems more
like ivy than laurel. Apollo the archer we can under-
stand, but what is a quiver to Dionysos ? It is tempting
116
M. i. 236 (fig.).
17
Rev. Num., 1892, pp. 212 and 506.
Zurgr. und rom. Milnzk., p. 246: 1. He also reads E and fl H
in front of the neck, but a comparison with the other casts from the
same and similar dies would show that these " letters ''
are merely
the hair which falls to r. of the neck.