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282 E. S. G. ROBINSON.
A late date for this coin seems to be justified by
several reasons. The head, though in a sense neat,
is different in style from that on the other autono-
mous bronze coins, e.g. the Ammon-Palm tree series,
and recalls rather that on the Roman denarii of Cor-
nuficius or Scarpus, struck in Africa in the second half
of the first century. 198
Thus, the horn is curled well
up under the ear as on these denarii, and on the
copper of the quaestor Pupius Eufus struck in the
downwards in
Oyrenaica (M. i. 424), instead of turning
crescent shape as on all the Ammon heads of the third
century. The fabric inclines to the Egyptian form
with bevelled edge, which does not appear on any
Cyreiiaean coins (with the curious exception of the
KOINON group) earlier than those struck by the Eoman
governors in the first century B.C. The brief period of
autonomy under Eoman suzerainty (96-75 B.C.) would
provide a satisfactory occasion for the issue.
To the coins struck by Eoman governors after the
organization of the Cyrenaica as a province
in 74
Svoronos, following a suggestion of Waddington, 199 has
added the set of coins bearing the name of Crassus
either in Greek or Latin (Svor., op. cit. 1901-1904).
Though we do not know definitely of Crassus governing
the province, yet, as Waddington pointed out, the style
and fabric, as well as the mixture of Greek and Latin,
instantly suggest the Cyrenaica; and further it may
be noted that on one the inscription flTOAEMAI(EnN)
is written in two vertical columns on either side of the
head, a characteristically Cyrenaic way.
1% B. M. C. : Rom. Republic, vol. ii, pp. 577, 578, and 583.
199 For a discussion of the Crassus coins see Svoronos, op. cit.
vir', and Waddington in Feuardent's Cat. de la
3 and 8.
Coll. Demetrio, ii,
pp.