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CHRONOLOGY OF THE COINS OF CHIOS. 19
In the case of common varieties I have been content
to cite three specimens only, so as to give the extreme
variations of weight, &c., with the addition of a quali-
fying note such as not rare, common, and so on.
1. Obv. Sphinx of rude style crouching 1. on plain
exergual line ; wing curled and ; long hair
gathered into rough knot on nape
of neck.
Before it indistinguishable object or objects.
Rev. Incuse square roughly divided into four unequal
parts, and small countermark similarly but
more evenly divided. Both punch-struck.
JR. 17
mm. 188 grains (12-18 grammes). Aegi-
neticjstater.
Coll. Sir H. Weber.
- mm. 187 grains (12-12 grammes).
lo-OOAegi-
netic stater. Sotheby's Sale Cat. Warren
Coll., 1905, No. 31.
io-00
mm. 184-75 grains (11-97 grammes).
Aeginetic stater. Coll. B. Yakountchikoff
ex Coll. Prince Chakhouskoy. Egger's Sale
Cat, 1908, No. 547. [PI. I. 1.]
21-00
mm. 187 grains (12-12 grammes). Aegilo-OO
netic stater. Sotheby's Cat. Sherman Benson
Coll., 1909, No. 695.
- mm. 192 grains (12-44 grammes). Cab. de
France, ex Taranto find. [PI. I. 2.]
- mm. 190-75 grains (12-36 grammes). Mus.
19-00
of Fine ''Arts, Boston, Mass., U.S.A., ex
C. P. Perkins's Coll., No. 492 of Cat.
This very rare and primitive coin was first published
by Canon Greenwell in Num. Chron., 1890, p. 18,
PI. ii. 15, while describing a hoard that contained
three specimens of the type, one of which, now in
Sir H. Weber's collection, is given above.
c 2