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, E. S. G. ROBINSON.
one to be employed at this period, even for tetradrachms,
as the following coin witnesses.
9. QiVt Silphium with two whorls and five umbels.
Rev. Head of Animon r., bearded, with ram's horn
(details
outwards ;
as described above) ; inscr. K VPA 5
dotted border.
B. M. JR. 1. Wt. 193-3 grs. (restruck ?).
Though the restriking may account for some slight
loss, the weight of this coin is certainly not Attic.
It might be Aeginetic or Samian. The first alterna-
tive is possible in view of the connexion with the
Aegean, and especially with Crete,
for which there
is much evidence, and we have a later example at
Cyrene of the employment
of what seems to be the
Cretan- Aeginetic standard. 39 But the weight though
low is not too low for the Samian standard, 40 the use
of which becomes general in the next period, and
it is easier to regard the coin as an interesting
anticipation of this later development. Of the same
group and standard is a hemidrachm in the Ward
Collection, 41 and to that must be added the following
three coins with a different reverse type.
10. Obv. Silphium plant with two whorls and three
umbels; in field 1., seed.
Rev. Head of the nymph Cyrene r., the hair bound
with a pearl diadem and caught up behind
en chignon ; incuse square, in the top corners
of which K V [; bottom corners obscure].
A\. Wt. 49 grs. Brussels (Coll. Hirsch).
See below, Silver Coinage of Fourth Period.
Though the normal weight of the Samian tetradrachm is
200-206 grains, we have early examples from Samos weighing as
little as 188-3 and even 183 (B. M. C. : Ionia, p. 351 Nos. 19
and 22).
41 Ward Coll., No. 904.