The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

420 J. MAVKOGORDATO.
the names found on them are distinct from those
occurring on any of the tetradrachms, with the pos-
sible exception of 'I-rnrias and 'ITTTTL^, the latter
belonging to the tetradrachms of class /?. It is by no
means certain, however, that these two names should
be taken as referring to the same person. It may be,
of course, that this absence of connexion with other
groups is only another case of material that is lacking,
but it is curious.
Then, in the matter of style, with the exception of
the tall Sphinx [PI. XIX. 8], which is common to all
three groups, the obverses of the present coins bear
a much greater resemblance to the drachms with single
letters, &c., than to any of the tetradrachms. The two
groups of drachms seem to follow each other closely.
The Sphinx's wing, on all varieties of this group, is
of a later type than on the drachms with letters, as
would be expected, and the amphora, on a few
specimens, exhibits the pear-shaped tip that was
generally adopted for class y and subsequent coins,
and may consequently be regarded as a sign of com-
parative lateness. The pear-shaped tip is certainly
never found on the drachms with letters, nor on the
tetradrachms of classes a and ft. The raised shield,
on the other hand, is always present here in a more
or less degraded form, and I have never noticed the
plain ring border that has been referred to in the case
of some of the class ft tetradrachms as probably the last
stage it reached before disappearing altogether. Also,
the weights of this group differ very little from those
of the earlier one, the averages shown in the table
above being, if anything, in favour of the drachms
with names. It is difficult to separate them, and yet