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SOME CYPKIOTE "ALEXANDERS". 315
forth, appears continually on all the Alexander issues
of the city under Ptolemaic supremacy, while mono-
grams are used for the control of the coinage.
SEEIES III.
This series is introduced by the tetradrachm, No. 15
(PI. XIV. 7), which constitutes the transition between
Series II and III. In style it is closer to the coins of
Series III, but in the placing of the inscription
AAE3EANAPOY BA5IAEHS it resembles the tetradrachms
of Series II. The stater which is placed with
it may still belong to Series II. In style it is identical
with certain specimens of No. 11 (compare PL XIV. 3),
but in the magistrate's name in the field it has more
affinity with the staters of the present series.
This series consists of staters, tetradrachms, and
drachms in considerable abundance, all bearing the
mint-mark rudder, and, in addition, two monograms,
these monograms are constantly changing they
must denote the magistrates in charge of the coinage,
though it would be tempting to see in N< and M or fjsl
the respective names of Nikokreon 22 and Menelaos. 23
of these Alexander coins it would seem that
Alongside
Nikokreon also struck the well-known staters and
Ehodian didrachms and drachms bearing his own name
and types. These were probably intended for use in
Cyprus only. There is nothing strange in the cur-
side of Attic tetradrachms and smaller
rency side by
22 Until 310 B.C. king of Salamis.
23
Strategos of Ptolemy in Cyprus, and successor to Nikokreon
as king of Salamis and Governor of Cyprus.
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