The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

CHRONOLOGY OF THE COINS OF CHIOS. 371
The electrum stater referred to above may be
described as follows :
31. Obv. Sphinx of early fine style seated 1. on plain
exergual line, raising further forepaw ; wing
curled in semi-conventionalized manner ;
hair
rolled. In front stoppered amphora, with ball
at point, surmounted by bunch of grapes which
hangs from vine-wreath encircling the type and
is touched by Sphinx's upraised paw.
Rev. Incuse square of mill-sail pattern like Cyzicene
staters ; anvil-struck.
El. mm. 236-7 grains (15-34 grammes).
Lampsacene
stater. Berlin Cabinet.
[PL XVIII. 9.]
No. 24. This is the earliest didrachm showing the
bunch of grapes of which I have been able to obtain
a cast, and it is also the only one of its type that
I have seen. In the collection of Prof. Pozzi, of Paris,
there is another early type which may possibly be
a trifle older. It has the letters XIO in the depressions
of the reverse which were noted in Nos. 17 and 20 of
Period III. Miss Baldwin shows two more specimens
of this type, and also three intermediate types between /
it and the next (Nos. 8, 9, and 11-14, PL iii).
Nos. 25-7. These types may be supposed to have
followed each other in the order given. This is only
conjectural, of course, and they do not represent all
the known varieties of their class by any means. But
they are typical of the principal changes in the design,
which are mostly unimportant. The eye of the Sphinx
from No. 26 onwards will be observed to be correctly
drawn in profile. The flans seem to have become
flatter as time went on. No. 25 is a very rare variety,
and No. 27 is unique to the best of my belief. There