The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

178 E. S. G. ROBINSON.
by Dressel 148 with the types Obv. Head of Ammon
of this
in the British Museum
facing, Rev. Head of Pallas r. The weight
piece is 6grs., while a specimen
weighs 4-4 grs., and the denomination is therefore
probably an Attic hemiobol. The use of the Attic
standard implies the period of I"IOAIAN0EY^ or later,
a dating which is confirmed by the style of the copper
14 '
issue of exactly similar types published by Babelon.
The shortage of small silver coins towards the end of
the period is doubtless to be explained by the intro-
duction of a copper coinage, at first unsigned, and then
(in early Ptolemaic times) with magistrates' names.
That these copper issues did not in general begin till
the close of the period is indicated by the form of the
silphium, which corresponds to that on the FIOAIAN-
0EYS-EIAnNOS-eEY4>EIAEYS silver, and by the
lack of any correspondence between magistrates' names
on the two metals. As it is difficult to divide them,
and as most of them belong to the third century, they
are best considered later.
" Z.f. N., xxiv. p. 91, PI. iv. 8.
E. S. Gr. EOBINSON.
149 Rec. Num., 1885, p. 398, No. 6, PI. xv. 6. One of the British
Museum specimens (= B. M. C.: Lycia, &c., p. 262, No. 54) has a
symbol (pileus) behind the head.
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