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304 E. T. NEWELL.
in the monogram "]< we must see the initials of the
name KITIo*/. No. 3, bound by identical obverse die
shows that K
with some examples of No. 4 [PI. XII. 3],
must be the first letter of the mint name. In a similar
manner to the contemporary Alexandrine issues of
13 AraSos (y^), Sidon U 15
(5I), Ake and Damaskos
(ny),
(AA), 1G , Kition signs its coins with the first letters of
its name but in monogram. On the earliest of the
staters (No. 1) a club accompanies the monogram as an
accessory symbol in order that there might be no
doubt as to their mint Herakles, as is well known,
being tho patron god
of Kition. This first issue of
staters is identical in style with the contemporary
staters of Salamis, of which more later.
The most remarkable peculiarity of these Kitian
Alexanders is found on the tetradrachms, Nos. 3 and 4.
Instead of the customary AAEZANAPoY the inscrip-
tions clearly give the form AAEZANAPO. If this
had occurred once, or even twice, on our coins,
it would
have been considered merely as an engraver's error
particularly as the inscriptions are often rather carelessly
cut, and we see A intended for A, 3 for E, and M
for N. On the contrary, we find that the odd form
AAE3EANAPO occurs, without exception, on every
one of the thirty-one reverse dies known for these two
issues (3 and 4). It is therefore no less than certain
that it was intentionally so written. Now the usual
and theoretical form of the genitive ending OY in the
13
Miiller, Xumiswatiqite d'Altxandre le Grand, Nos. 1360-72.
Hill, " Notes on the Alexandrine Coinage of Phoenicia," Notnisma,
iv, 1909, p. 2.
34
Jbicl, Nos. 1397-411. Hill, Nomisma, iv, pp. 6-7.
* Ibid., Nos. 1426-63. Hill, Xomisma, iv, p. 10 if.
16
Ibid., Nos. 1338-46.