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64 E. S. G. ROBINSON.
such a dating. The find of Myt-Rahineh consisted of
archaic coins of the sixth and early fifth centuries,
including two Cyrenaic
tetradrachms with incuse
reverses. Longperier 32 who published it dated its
burial c. 525, during the Persian invasion of Egypt.
It could not be earlier. The Taranto find :53
contained
two Cyrenaic tetradrachms also with incuse reverses.
The latest datable coins in the find were a tetradrachm
of Chalcis with a Boeotian type (c. 510-507 B. c.), one
of Eretria with the gorgoneion and lion's scalp in
incuse square (530-480), and one of Peparethus with
the grapes and the dolphin rider (c. 480).
Thus in
two finds buried, say between 525 and 480, no Cyrenaic
tetradrachms with reverse types appear. On the other
hand, in the goldsmith's hoard from Naucratis," 4 of
which the latest coin is a Samian tetradrachm, struck
after the Athenian conquest of 437, we have two Cyrenaic
tetradrachms with reverse types, and none without.
If the beginning of the second class of the first
period, containing coins with a type
on the reverse,
is to be placed in the last quarter of the sixth century,
when did the first class begin? This class consists
of some ten varieties, the earliest of which, in the
French collection, 35 is of very rough work. The style
of the coin will not let us place it later than the first
half of the sixth century. If on the other hand we
refer it to the end of the seventh century, we are left
with a very small number of pieces to fill the gap of
a century or more before the appearance of the later
82 Rev. Nwn., 1861, p. 425.
" Rev. Num., 1912, p. 21.
3< JVinn. Chron., 1886, p. '.'.
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