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CHRONOLOGY OF THE COINS OF CHIOS. 47
issue. It is a highly plausible theory, and as satis-
factory as such things well can be. The chief point of
interest for the present inquiry is the share that Chios
may have had in this federal coinage.
All the coins forming the group in question have
one feature in common, to wit, the type of their
reverse. This consists of a shallow incuse square
neatly quartered by fine lines, and anvil-struck. 43
The stater attributed by M. Jameson to Priene
(Trouvaille de Vourla, PI. i. 4) differs from the rest in
having no cross-lines in the incuse square, but this
may be due, as he suggests, to a damaged die. Then
the specimen with the Free Horse, attributed to Cyme
(No. 7 of Prof. Gardner's list, Journ. Hellen. Studies,
1911), seems also to be an exception on account of its
punch-striking. But it can, I think, be shown to be
too old for the period suggested, like its Chian com-
tion. In her "Electrum Coinage of Lampsakos", Miss
L. Baldwin illustrates a more probable candidate with
te characteristic reverse, which quite satisfies the
mditions. It will also be seen from this paper that
[iss Baldwin, who gives the whole history of the
question, pp. 27-32, agrees
with M. Jameson's choice
)f the coin to be ascribed to Chios at this juncture.
In his description of the Vourla find (Rev. Num.,
HI, pp. 67-8) M. Jameson pointed
iter showing this reverse had appeared
out that a Chian
at the sale
of the Lambros collection (No. 701, Hirsch's Cat., 1910),
and he subsequently assigned it to the date 500 B. c.
(Cat. Jameson, No. 1520 a ).
43 See Earle-Fox, "Early Coinage of European Greece," Corolla
Numismatica, p. 34.