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QUAESTIONES CYKENAICAE. 275
incuse reverse meet us even in the copper coins
struck under Roman suzerainty after the death of
Ptolemy Apion. Further, the style of the heads (e. g.
Nos. 102-6) recalls that on the latest issues of the
fourth century (Nos. 74, 75, above, nOAIANGEYS),
and the same is true of the treatment of the silphium
which, as a rule, is of that thick florid type characteristic
of the issues just mentioned.
The magistrate's names, at least thirteen in number,
raise a difficulty. They are written at length or in
abbreviation, as is the manner of the fourth century,
not in monogram, as is the fashion of the next period.
But of these magistrates there is only one who appears
in what we should naturally be inclined to regard as
the corresponding silver or gold issues of the fourth cen-
tury. That one, however (the 0E of No. 99), is
in a sense an exception which explains the rule, for the
OEYEIAEY of the Attic didrachm has been placed
last of all the magistrates of that series. Similarly
EYPIO$ occurs also on Ptolemaic gold dateable to
308-305, 187 and the other apparent correspondences
between silver and copper likewise fall within Ptolemaic
times. They are not numerous : %l on No. 110, &c.,
and on the silver didrachms, M. i. 161, 178 ; the plough
on No. 112 and on the gold obol (No. 94). In other
words, all these correspondences are later than 310
a date which the style of the bulk of the coins con-
firms and therefore, if any except the uninscribed
ones are to be placed earlier in the fourth century,
we must assume that the striking of the gold and
silver and of the copper issues were at that time
entrusted to different authorities. Against this assump-
187 See above, p. 268.