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grandsons of Tiberius, appear also on the first brass
of the regular Roman series, their heads in two cornua-
copiae
with a caduceus between them.207
They were
born after October 10, A. r>. 19, and Grermanicus (the
knowledge even of whose name we owe to these pieces
and to a Cypriote inscription) died toward the end of
23, so it is possible to narrow down the date of the
coins to the four years 19-23. As already stated, they
are the last coins which can with any certainty be
given to the Cyrenaica. Later attributions are discussed
and dismissed by Muller (i, pp. 171-4).
PTOLEMAIC ISSUES AT GYRENE.
A note may be added on the coins struck at Gyrene
in the names of the Ptolemies. During the reign
of Ptolemy Soter, as has been long recognized, there
are, outside of the unmistakable KYPANAION flTO-
AEMAin group (Svor., Nos. 61-4), certain monograms
common to the Ptolemaic and to the autonomous
coinage of Gyrene; for example IK**, IP, KE. (Svor.,
Nos. 65-72, PL iii. 6-12, M. ; Nos. 102, 147, 151, 152,
PL iv. 3, 4, v. 1, 2, 4. A/".) The copper Svoronos assigns
to the years immediately succeeding Magas' re-occupa-
tion, 308-304 ; but, as has been suggested above, the
corresponding Cyrenaean silver with these monograms,
as well as the corresponding Ptolemaic gold, seems
certainly later than 300. It is also possible that the
and silver drachms with the name of
group of copper
Alexander (Svor., Nos. 49-58, PL ii. 27-34) were issued
from the mint of Gyrene. The similarity in style
between the heads, especially on Svor., Nos. 51 and 57
207 Rev. Num., 1911, pp. 347-9, PI. viii. 10 (on p. 349 the date of
the death of Germanicus is given as 28 instead ot 23).