The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

60 E. S. G. ROBINSON.
A stylistic comparison shows that the lion's head
on the coin of Gyrene is later than the staters of
Lindus of the first period. It offers perhaps most
analogy to the tetrobols of the second period (after
:>00 B.C.), for example B.M.C.: Caria, p. 229, Nos. 9
and 10, with the dotted truncation at the neck, and
a very similar treatment of the "ruff". Again, the
coins of lalysus which suggested the reverse type 20
are later than the earliest coins of the other cities
of Rhodes which have a type on only one side. They
cannot be put much before the beginning of the fifth
century, to which period they are assigned by Head
(B.M.C.: Caria, p. 226),
for Babeloii's earlier date
(c. 530) rests ultimately on the assumption that our
Xo. 5 was struck by Arcesilas III. Thus the arguments
from style and from origin of types both alike com-
pel us to place this coin after 500, and so reinforce
the other arguments against its connexion with
Arcesilas III and his expedition, c. 530.
Traces of Rhodian influence are also visible on the
following piece.
6. Obi". Head of lioness facing; above, silphium fruit,
dotted border.
point upwards ;
Jicr. Head of griffin r. in dotted square ; incuse
square.
B. M. M. 0-05. Wt. 60-8 grs. (2V. 2008.)
In connexion with this coin may be considered two
coins of Camirus.
7. ol.r.
Fig-leaf.
li'i'i-. [Head of griffin 1. in incuse square.]
2n On the staters the eagle has no snake in his beak ; this
feature, however, appears on the hemidrachm. Traite, ibid., p. 467,
No. 765, PI. xx. 11. Cf. Jin\ X,,m.. 1*94, pp. 274 seqq.