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CROTON. 191
a manner resembling much more closely the Croton
staters of 480-450 B.C.
I had thought that the coin might have been struck
by Croton as a cynical reference to the second foundation
of Sybaris, or, indeed, to the second destruction,
but had dismissed the idea as wild conjecture. I find,
however, through the note in Hill's Historical Greek
Coins, p. 50, that the latter view has actually been
maintained by von Duhn (Zeit. fur Num., vii, p. 310),
in reference to the
and Busolt (Gr. Gesch., ii2
, p. 770),
early incuse stater mentioned above. If this solution
be correct, the difficulty of having the Croton type on
the reverse is accentuated. But the explanation may
be found in purely technical reasons the high relief of
the bull type which needed more careful guarding.
The relations existing between Croton and Sybaris are
greatly in favour of our entering in this case " the way
for a revision of the accepted interpretation of '
alliance
coinages'" (Hill., op. cit.).
S. W. GEOSE.