The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

QUAESTIONES CYRENAICAE. 165
i. e. about the middle of the fourth century, and also
that FIG A I AN BEYS is the last of the magistrates whose
name appears on the gold, then, if No. 79 is grouped
with the other 0EYEIAEY coins, there would be a
gap of more than a quarter of a century between No. 79
and Nos. 75-6, and yet No. 79 has stylistically every
mark of being the later of the two. Further, the Attic
standard would have been introduced at Gyrene before
c. 350 (at a time, too, when we can find no adequate
reason for it), to be replaced immediately by the Samian
under lason, then restored again under HO A IAN-
GEY $. Some smaller points of style may be indi-
cated. All the heads on the coins of 0EYEIAEY3,
I A SONO 5, and riOAIANGEYS (except the latter's
gold triobols, and No. 74 A above) are turned to the left,
whereas on the coins of EI AflNOS and on No. 79, the
head is turned to the right. On No. 79,
as on coins
of EI AflNOS, the long hair appears on both sides of
the neck, a slightly affected manner common at the
end of the fourth century, e. g. on some of the gold
staters of Alexander, on the Apollo head at Abydos
(B. M. C.: Troas, p. 2, No. 11 "after 320"), at Metapon-
tum, and at Syracuse under Agathocles. Once more,
the silphium on No. 79 bears no resemblance to
that on the reverses of OEYEIAEY3, being much
plumper and more florid, while it has a decided affinity
to that on the didrachms of FIOAI AN0EYS, and on the
earliest issue of Rhodiaii weight which heads the next
period. 120 The innovation in type, too, comes more
naturally as a companion innovation to that under
than as a unique appearance in a series
123 M. i. 148. See below,
No. 84.