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CHRONOLOGY OF THE COINS OF CHIOS. 393
the exception of the electrum staters showing this
position, no other coin of Chios has a Sphinx to right
till we reach the large bronze issues made in the
second century B.C.
Nos. 47 and 47 a are evidently later than the others,
and No. 47 may very possibly be a contemporary of the
fcetradrachm with the name "Aa-pews, but as the next
period introduces us to quite a new style of bronze
coin, it is more consistent on the whole to class these
types with the two preceding ones. No. 47a seems
to be the latest of all, judging by the disappearance
of the dotted circle from its reverse ; but if that be
accepted it must be noted that we have here the first
instance, since the drachms just discussed, of an issue
without inscription following after one on which
letters had been engraved. Unfortunately, I have been
unable to trace any of the eighteen pieces described
in Herr Lobbecke's paper under his No. 19, and I have
consequently had nothing but his description to guide
me in assigning its place to the type. Otherwise it
seems possible that this type might furnish the
link, at present missing, between No. 47 and the
earliest of the small bronze coins with magistrates'
names.
Although, with the appearance
of a device on the
reverse, the question of fixed or loose dies now arises,
I have no ground for supposing that the dies of these
bronze coins were fixed. Out of eleven pieces that
I have been able to examine, two show the die-position
ff , and one f