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SOME CYPRIOTE " ALEXANDERS". 319
(about 330 B.C.), on account of the odd style and the
presence of Cypriote letters. Like the first issue at
Kition with its AAEZANAPO inscription Cypriote
mannerisms are still in evidence. The Hague collection
also possesses a drachm of this issue, and Mr. Jelajian
a bronze.
The next coins which must be assigned to Paphos
are certain tetradrachms which occurred in the
Demanhur Hoard, and which, like the contemporaneous
coins of Kition, bear the city's initials in monogram
in the field, in this case: ($]. These coins are of very
good and rather individual style quite different from
the issues of Salamis and Kition. These latter were
more or less influenced by the coins of the Cilician
and Phoenician coasts, and were invariably struck
from adjusted dies. The Paphian coins, on the other
hand, were at first struck from loose dies, the oriental
custom of adjusted dies not being adopted till the
appearance of Nos. 6 to 8 (PI. XV. 11-13). These
latter usually show the position f | for their dies. In
style these Paphian coins remind one most of the
early Alexander issues of Western Asia Minor. In
only one point do they betray their Cypriote origin,
and that in the curious placing of the inscription
AAE3EANAPOY BASIAEHS, both words being in
parallel lines, the first to the right, the second to the
left, of the sceptre held by Zeus. This peculiar placing
of the inscription is only to be found on the con-
temporary Alexander issues of Salamis and on a certain
tetradrachm which, we shall see later, seems attributable
to Marion. The clue to their origin being thus fur-
nished by the inscriptions, the monogram p$l easily
resolves itself into fIA. This reading is perhaps