The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

394 J. MAVROGORDATO.
remaining bronze issues of Chios were probably struck
from fixed dies.
The weights of Nos. 46-7 are fairly constant in the
region of 20-52 grains (1-33 grammes), which is roughly
the weight maintained by the small bronze coins of
the next period.
PEEIOD VII. 412-334 B.C.
It is a remarkable though perhaps not an ex-
ceptional fact that the seventy odd years following
upon the defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse were,
at one and the same time, some of the most disastrous
in the annals of Chios in ancient times, and, throughout
the greater part of their course, the richest from
a numismatic point of view. There would be neither
object nor profit in trying
changes
to follow here the various
of fortune in the state after the introduction
of the Spartan governor Pedaritos. Suffice it to say
that between the oppression of the Spartans within,
and the ravages of the Athenians along the coasts,
the accumulated wealth of the two previous generations
must have soon been dissipated. Each of the
rival parties in the island identified itself with one
of the belligerents, the oligarchs helping the Spartans
to defend the citadel, and the democrats giving all
possible encouragement to the Athenian raids. Almost
every year saw a fresh revolution, as first one side
and then the other gained the upper hand. Finally,
after the crowning defeat of Aegospotami, when the
last hopes of the democrats sank with the Athenian
ships, and J/he oligarchic captains were being honoured
by statues at Delphi, 60 all civic independence seems to
60 Pausanias x. 99.