The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

62 E. S. G. ROBINSON.
to determine the date of its introduction if we can.
The same standard appears at two other places,
Samos u and Ephesus. At Samos it is an innovation
of the beginning
of the fifth century, and is
accompanied by a further innovation in the form of
a reverse type. 25 The earliest coins which can with
certainty be assigned to this island have no reverse type
and are of a different standard. 2 '3 At Ephesus, if we
accept the attribution of the pieces with a crawling
bee seen in profile, 27 the standard appears towards the
end of the second half of the sixth century, under
Persian rule ; if we reject it, the first coins of such
a weight are those with the usual Ephesian types
given to the opening years of the fifth century. 28 "We
shall not be far wrong, then, if we place the first appear-
ance in S.W. Asia Minor of this standard (whatever
its origin) in the last years of the sixth century, and
in view of the close connexion of this district (and
especially Samos) with Gyrene we may infer that the
same years saw its first appearance in Africa as well.
This brings us to another question, the approximate
date of the introduction of a reverse type into the
incuse of the earliest coins. Of the districts connected
24 Where in later times its tetradrachms were so thoroughly
established as to have acquired the name of oran/p Trar/no? (Hist.
\iini-, p. 683, and reference there given).
T,;iM, #*" partie, I. p. 283, No. 449 seqq. The style of
these coins and the fact of their having a reverse type seems to
preclude Babelon's attribution of them to Polycrates.
-"
I hit?., p. 278, No. 443 seqq. These cannot be much earlier than
t In- hist quarter of the sixth century.
"
Ibid., p. 274, Nos. 435. 436 bis.
Anaphe.
Imhoof would give these to
'"
I hi, 1.. pp. 1:J7 seqq. and the tetradrachm B. M. C. : Ion ia,
p. 49, No. 205, whose date has been corrected in Hist Xum 2
p. 572.