The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

292 E. S. G. ROBINSON.
KOINON coins often struck over them. Therefore they
must have first appeared before 250. The series is
only interrupted by the coins with the monogram K
and by a piece with the types Obv. Ram r., Rev. Eagle
L, BASIAEHS HTOAEMAIOY in field 1. star (M.i. 377
= Svor. 1243), or thunderbolt (Svor. 1244). For the
latter, Svoroiios, who gives them to Ptolemy V, will
not allow the Cyrenaic origin which is generally
recognized. But, though fabric and style do not help
us here, surely the type implies a Cyrenaic origin.
The ram meets us on the copper coins of Barce (Nos. 80,
81, above) and on the copper issued during the government
of Pupius Eufus and Scato in the first century
(M. i. 423 and 430).
Can the monogram M; be accepted as that of the
younger Magas
tained that the BA5IAI55HS BEPENIKHS coins are
? Mtiller has with some reason main-
to be assigned definitely to Berenice-Euesperides on
the strength of the wreath of apple-branch, the club
type with its reference to Heracles, and the particular
connexion between the princess and the city, to which
she may have stood in the same relation as Arsinoe,
wife of Lysimachus, did to Cassandrea, Tium and
Amastris; 222 and further, that her son Magas was
governor for her until his death, the result perhaps,
as Six suggests, of his intrigues with the army favoured
by his exceptional position. 223 But the extensive series
of silver and copper coins, whether bearing the name
of Ptolemy or that of Berenice, seems to imply a longer
period of time than could be possible if they were due
to Magas, who was murdered when little more than a
222
Miiller, i, p. 416.
223 Num. Chron., 1897, p. 224.