The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

22 J. MAVROGORDATO.
These two coins, which, to the best of my belief, are
the only known specimens of their type, were probably
struck from the same obverse die, and certainly from
the same reverse one, the British Museum specimen
being the earlier.
The Berlin specimen was published by Dr. Dressel
in the Zeitschrift fur Numismatik, 1900, pp. 238-41,
No. 30, and in the Numismatic Chronicle for 1911,
pp. 85-93, I drew attention to the one in the British
Museum. :J4
Several
ing
points
in connexion with these interest-
coins have already been touched upon above.
Attention may be drawn in passing to their very early
style betrayed by the grotesque profile and the large
head. They can safely be assigned to the end of the
seventh century B.C., and are at least as old as the
Aeginetic staters.
It is interesting to note that the quartered incuse
square already appears at this early date, and must
necessarily be placed before the plain incuse of coins
such as Nos. 4 and 5, although, in the absence of other
evidence, the latter form is more primitive of the two.
generally regarded as the
With regard to the rosette in the field it is con-
ceivable that it may commemorate some fleeting
alliance with Erythrae. But I do not feel inclined
to support the idea, the two states having been
almost constantly at variance. Besides, a more plausible
explanation of the symbol
is to be found in the solar
$4 In the course of ray remarks on that occasion I was wrong to
place these coins in the same class as the didrachm Canon Greenwell in Num. Citron.,
published by
1890, p. 4, since the latter
belongs to the group next to be described.