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CHRONOLOGY OF THE COINS OF CHIOS. 27
gating the two island states of Chios and Samos. The
oligarchic or aristocratic form of government continued
at Chios down to the time of the final extinction of
the League by Harpagus in 545 B.C.
Since all autonomous coining of electrum must have
ceased with the imposition of Persian rule under
Cyrus, as Prof. P. Gardner has conclusively shown, 36
the task of fixing the date of the remaining Chian
issues in this metal is considerably simplified. Three
at least of the known types still unrecorded here must,
in consequence of the above, fall automatically into
the present period. They are none of them so old
in style as the type last quoted, No. 3, nor are they yet
suitable for inclusion among the coins of the Ionian
Revolt, about which there will be more to say
later on.
As regards their individual arrangement it is of
course impossible to be positive, and the order in
which they are placed below is only intended to be
mjectural. Still, by comparing these three widely
livergent types with the more or less contemporary
diver didrachms, which afford a far less broken scheme
>f development, I hope to be able to show that the
classes mutually support each other without neces-
irily having been issued together. It is possible of
>urse that some of the didrachms described under
'eriod III may belong here, but in the present state
)f our knowledge anything more definite than what
am already proposing would be the merest guess-
work.
There is certainly no lack of material from this time
36 "The Coinage of the Ionian Revolt," J. H. S., 1911, p. 156.