The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

266 E. S. G. KOBINSON.
The heads on Nos. 91-6 are distinctly later than those
on the corresponding little pieces of flOAIANGEY^.
If continuity of type goes for anything, we should
expect Nos. 91 and 92, which show a head on both
sides like the corresponding pieces of the previous
period, to precede Nos. 93-6, on which new types
appear. That No. 91, like the earliest silver of the
period, bears no magistrate's name or symbol, reinforces
the suggestion. No. 92 with E 1 would then come near
the beginning of the period, as a consideration of the
silver didrachms with the same monogram has already
led us to think likely. 174 The two stars of No. 93 and
the star and C of No. 96 occur on a corresponding
silver series (M. i. 153-4 and 156-9), the plough of
No. 94 on the copper series (No. 112, below). No. 97 by
its types stands apart from the rest; the absence of
magistrate's name or symbol and the type of silphium
suggest a very early date in the period.
One gold coin remains :
98. Obv. Nike driving a quadriga
NAION.
r. : above. KYPA-
Rev. Zeus Ammon standing 1., his breast and
shoulders bare, his 1. resting on sceptre, his
r. holding patera over thymiaterion ; in field
r. |^ ; below, crab.
Paris. N. 0-75. Wt. 110-5 grs. (Published by Babe-
Ion in Rev. Num., 1885, p. 399, PI. xv. 7.)
No. 98, of the usual types of the Cyrenaean gold
staters, is of a different weight and a later style. In
style it is most nearly related to the latest coin of
nOAIANGEYS (No. 71, above), though there is still
some gap between. The head of the Nike looks r.,
instead of to front, and the treatment of the horse
174
Above, p. 255.