The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

312 E. T. NEWELL.
29. TETRADRACHM.
Olv. Head of youthful Herakles as on previous tei;radrachms.
7,>a\ AAEZANAPOY on right. Seated Zeus as on
previous
neath throne, ^.
E. T. N. [PI. XV. 6.]
tetradrachms. In front : RUDDER. Be-
SALAMIS.
SERIES I.
The staters of this series form a group of five
varieties, at least three of which are bound together
by identical obverse dies. That they all belong to
a single mint is furthermore evident from their close
community in style a style, moreover, which is unlike
that of any other of the Alexander issues, except the
earliest of the staters already attributed to the neighbouring
mint of Kition. The Nike on the reverses of
these Salaminian staters stands on a base, and holds
a naval standard, peculiar in that its crossbar is unusually
thick, and its projections face downwards
instead of upwards. In style this group of staters
merges into the succeeding staters signed with the
rudder symbol. All these staters are struck from
adjusted dies (position f f), a practice peculiar at this
early time only to Cyprus and Phoenicia. As we
possess ample Alexandrine coinages with fixed dies
for all the principal cities of Phoenicia, Cyprus alone
remains ;
while the attribution to this island is proved
by the close similarity in style to the staters which for
other reasons have been assigned to Kition.
The accompanying tetradrachms and drachms are
all signed with the bow symbol only. At first their