The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

398 J. MAVROGORDATO.
out letters or symbols, 4 hemidrachms of the same
class, and 4 Chian drachms bearing magistrates' names.
Out of the Chian pieces concerned no record appears
to have been kept of the anepigraphic drachms and
hemidrachms, and I have been unable to trace them,
but details of the drachms with names will be found
below. There were other silver coins in the hoard
of great individual interest, but without any special
connexion with Chian chronology. The bronze in-
cluded 149 Chian pieces, 41 of which belonged to the
types described under Nos. 46-47 a ,
and 29 were in an
unrecognizable condition, as already stated. The rest,
all with magistrates' names, and mostly in excellent
preservation, will be found noted under types Nos. 53
and 54.
The main lesson to be derived from the find is that
the vase containing the coins was probably hidden
during the troublous years of the Macedonian occupa-
tion. The two drachms of Pixodarus, being in nearly
mint state, afford an unimpeachable fixed point, as
these things go, from which to calculate. The date
of Pixodarus's reign was 341-335 B.C., and the coins of
the find, therefore, cannot be much later than 334 B.C. L
which is the limit taken for this period. Herr
Lobbecke's paper does not appear to have received
the attention that it deserved, for one sees the Chian
bronze coins to be described below assigned to any
but their correct date in most collections.
Although there is no doubt, then, that all these
bronze coins with names were issued some time during
the first three quarters of the fourth century B. a, the
date claimed for types Nos. 46-47a may appear excessively
early in view of their presence in this find.