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258 E. S. G. ROBINSON.
But all these coins when they bear any ethnic bear
that of Gyrene. The port of Gyrene, known in
Ptolemaic times as Apollonia, in early Christian times
as Sozusa, is the one place which answers all the re-
quirements. First it was a port; second, as it was,
so to say, a suburb of Gyrene, we need not be sur-
prised to find KYPA on coins issued thence. I would
therefore assign all coins on which we find a crab
to a subsidiary Cyrenaean mint at Apollonia. Miiller
goes further and regards all coins bearing C as issuing
from this mint, 158 of which he thinks Sozusa was the
pre-Ptolemaic name as it certainly was the late
Eoman. But there is no reason to suppose that the
name of the place was anything but Apollonia until
late Roman, times, while if we take the monogram for
that of a magistrate the most natural explanation
it falls into line with the other monograms of the
series which have never been interpreted as referring
to anything but magistrates. Muller's reason for treat-
ing it exceptionally is the varying weight
of the unit
pieces on which it occurs. This seems to him to require
a longer period of time than would be covered by the
activity of a single magistrate, a point which will be
dealt with below, p. 261.
Except for the latest copper issues, No. 119 below,
other symbols (save one) though they occur on coins
of different groups, e.g. the bow-case on No. 87 and on a
coin of Berenice II, 159 the snake on a Ehodian didrachm
(M. i. 171), and later copper (M. i. 265), must be referred
to individuals, as the common ethnic KYPA would
Miiller, ibid., p. 94, but cp. Suppl. 17, 18.
159 Svor., No. 319, who calls it a silphium and assigns it to
Berenice I.