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assassin.,!.'
Strains. Though this failed, ii was the
i,,,liivi ! i -a use of the expedition of Leotychides and
t he battle of Myi-nle.
strengthened I
That echo from Plataea effectually
the liands of ho
oligarchy, and Strait is
disappears from history for the last time.
It has been suggested that the destruction caused
l.v the Persians' raid must have been so groat, that,
Chics c.in have been in no condition to coin money
lor a rousiderable time. This barren period
has
generally been held to extend over the fifteen years
between the battles of Lade and Myoale. But the fact
that the inhabitants came back so soon after their
exile has, I think, been overlooked. Strattis and his
Me,li/ing party seem to have had nearly
of the above-mentioned period
the whole
in which to rebuild
the fortunes of the state. And though they may not
have done much, it does not seem unreasonable to
suppose that .-> some coins were struck as mark of their
return to power.
So far. however, it must be admitted that we cannot
assign any particular issue to this period. It may be
that types approximating to Nos. 21 and 22, perhaps
even No. M\! itself, belong hero, or that the earliest
coins with a In i uoh of grapes above the amphora were
now struck tor the first time. But it is too line
a point to bo settled by anything other than a luckily
constituted tind. It is safest, on the whole, to leave
all coins with an amphora only, as has been done here,
to the period before the Ionian Revolt; and to assume
that the bunch of Crapes was not introduced till after
the battle of M vcale.
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