The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

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paper, he came to the same conclusion about the
probable issue of a federal coinage at the time of the
Ionian Eevolt. The author there recognized that this
of those
particular coin is older than the majority
the hoard to which the date of 500 B.C. is
composing
roughly assigned.
This coin is of later style than No. 5, though it has
a similar plain incuse. It is possible that the absence
of the crossed lines in this case may be due to wear,
since traces of what might have been quartering^ are
to be detected in the square, whereas the reverse of
No. 5 shows no signs of them at all.
Both the coins here described are from the same dies.
No. 7. So far as I am aware this beautiful stater
has never been the subject of any special reference.
It is an example of all that is finest in archaic art,
and a proof of the high level reached by craftsmen in
Chios at this period. Unfortunately none of the
specimens that I have come across is in really good
condition, M. B,. Jameson's coin being quite the finest
of the four. This prevents any comparison of dies in
the case of the obverses, but for the reverses two are
recognizable, one between M. Yakountchikoff's and
the Egger Cat. specimens, and the other between
M. Jameson's and the French Cabinet's coins.
This type affords the only instance of an electrum
coin at Chios, with the exception of the fifth-century
stater, in which the Sphinx is depicted to left.
The silver didrachms that I suggest for this period
are the following :
8. Obv. Sphinx of archaic style seated 1. on plain exergual
line ; wing curled ; hair in dense mass like an
Egyptian wig ;
dcaWQ in perspective.
both forelegs showing, but not