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268 E. S. G. ROBINSON.
c. 270, with or without ethnic ;
first without, then with,
magistrates' names and, later, with symbols. (Many of
the cases of apparent absence of inscription, however,
are due to poor condition.) (2) From c. 270 to Ptolemy
Physcon, c. 150, with symbols and monograms of later
style, e.g. M. i. 251-85. (3) The short period of freedom
between the death of Ptolemy Apion and the Eoman
dominion ; a few coins only. (4) The Eoman period.
Some of the coins without ethnic may belong to Barce
or Euesperides.
As many of the bronze pieces are overstruck, we may
get a little light on their chronological sequence. A
fixed point is established by the coin with the very
interesting reverse type
of the tomb of Battus and the
The same
magistrate's name EYPIO (M. i. 234-5).
name 177 occurs on the flTOAEMAin KYPANAION
coins mentioned above, 178 which can be dated with some
certainty to 308-304. I regard the following as con-
temporary :
99. Obv. Horse's head r. in front 0E ; ; (beneath, symbol ?
or break in the die) ; dotted border.
JRev. Wheel with hub and six spokes.
B. M. M. 0-9. Wt. 210-9 grs.
The HTOAEMAin KYPANAION coins show also
the name of another magistrate GEY, whom I have
sought to identify above with the 0EYEIAEY of the
Attic didrachm (No. 79), and I would add No. 98 to the
coins which he signs. If the attribution be accepted,
it increases the evidence for a second 0EYEIAEY.
For, if the hypothesis of a second 0EY4>EIAEYS put
177 Unknown to Pape-Benseler and therefore unlikely to be a
different person.
178 See p. 170 note, and Svoronos, op.cit., p. 11, No. 61 seqq.