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CHRONOLOGY OF THE COINS OF CHIOS. 399
The fact that they formed part of a peasant's hoard
some seventy years after they are supposed to have
been struck might be advanced as an argument
against such an attribution, in spite of their poor
condition. But since the hoard also contained anepi-
graphic drachms and hemidrachms. belonging pre-
sumably to the types described under Nos. 39-40, this
difficulty is considerably reduced.
Just as we are uncertain as to the exact date down
to which the issues of tetradrachms and drachms with
names were continued, so we cannot tell precisely when
they began. The revolt from Athens has generally
been accepted as the time, and it certainly provides
us with a most plausible occasion for their introduction.
The revival of the aristocratic party under Alcibiades
seems to demand some such recognition, and in any
case the date is a convenient landmark.
We have already seen the difficulties that attend
the exact arrangement of the coins with symbols,
letters, monograms, &c. There are not very many of
these issues extant so far. My list, which, as I have
explained, is by no means complete, comprises some
16 or 17 issues between types Nos. 35-45. Still, at
present we cannot reckon with many more, even
allowing for types that I have not had an oppor-
tunity of examining. If, as I have decided to place
them, the drachms and hemidrachms with letters, &c.,
came between tetradrachm No. 37, supposing that it
was the last of its class, and the first coin with a name
in full, well and good. Between circa 435 B.C., the date
suggested for the first tetradrachm issue, and 412 B.C.
there are about twenty-three years, and, allowing for
lost and missing types, these 16-17 issues may be