The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

392 J. MAVKOGOKDATO.
Before passing on to the bronze it is worth while
noting here that the earliest case of plating that I have_
come across in the Chian series belongs to the present
period. In the Berlin Cabinet there is a copper coin
that evidently formed the core of one of those drachms
without letters, possibly type No. 39 a . It measures
TT^Q mm - and weighs 39-7 grains (2-57 grammes).
Nos. 46-47 a . These early bronze coins were first
published by Herr A. Lobbecke in an article which
will be dealt with more fully later on. The author
did not attempt to assign a date to this particular
part of the find that he was describing, being content
to settle the time when the hoard was probably
deposited, but he remarks that some of the bronze was
much worn and had evidently been in circulation for
a long time. Though this observation refers more par-
ticularly to twenty-nine pieces that were unrecognizable
in their details, it can also be taken to cover the coins
included under these four types, as all the specimens
I have seen, with the exception of that illustrated
PI. XIX. 2, are more or less affected by wear. The coin
chosen to illustrate type No. 47 [PL XIX. 3] is quite the
best I know. This type, No. 46, will be recognized as
presenting, in its obverse, all the characteristics of the
genuine fifth-century coinage near which it is placed.
In fact, the wing of the Sphinx and the clean line
formed by the back of its neck, free from the fourth-
century curls, are more suggestive of this early period
than the obverse types of any of the drachms and
hemidrachms with which it is actually grouped. The
turning of the Sphinx to right in the solitary specimen
I am recording under No. 46 a is most unusual. "With