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included with the other varieties of light weight
staters. In style the two McCleaii specimens are ex-
tremely poor, but this remark applies
to a number of
specimens of high weight. Compare, however, the high
weight and low weight specimens on PI. VIII. 15, 16.
The coin with the python and corn-ear symbols on
the reverse, which was described at the beginning,
does not belong to the series under discussion. Whether
it belongs to the years 330-299 B.C. is, for our purpose,
immaterial. It is separated from these coins by its
heavier weight, the border on the obverse, the set of
the spread wings, which resembles many other Croton
coins of heavy weight, and is quite different from the
type discussed under No. 8 above, and by the finer
workmanship, though it is unnecessary to use the
insecure argument too often afforded by grounds of
style. Moreover, though
typical example of the period
Dr. Head took it as the
and series to which he
ascribed it, it is a coin which never carries a letter or
monogram; at least, I cannot find a specimen which
>oes so. Those known to me are McClean (PL VIII. 7) ;
B.M. 83; Ward 109; Benson Sale, No. 120; Milan
Catalogue, May 13, 1912, No. 333; Hartwig Sale,
^o. 453; Hirsch Catalogues, XV, No. 796; XVI,
*o. 173 ; XX, No. 84 ; XXX, Nos. 290, 291. The lowest
weight of any of these specimens is the 117-2 grs. of
B.M. 83. There is, indeed, the coin in the Leake
ollection (No. 10 in the catalogue) weighing 106-1 grs.
This specimen had seemed to me a forgery before I
bad examined the weights, and Mr. Gr. F. Hill, who has
ince seen the Leake coin, agrees that it is false. This
ype belongs, in my opinion, to the later fifth century
series not later than the reverse type which shows
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