The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

198 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
Stater.
187-2 grs.
Stater.
187 -4 grs.
Stater.
186 grs.
Hemidrachm.
45-5.
Hnnidrachm.
47-8 grs.
Obol.
14-5 grs.
Similar, but
Similar wheel, in two quarters
only.
[Brit. Mus. PI. I.
16.]
Similar, no letter. A T in two quarters of similar
wheel.
[Brit. Mus. PL 1. 17.]
Boeotian shield, Wheel of four spokes, no inscripon
rim of which tion, the whole in incuse
, . ,, j I circle,
at both ends .
[Brit
Similar shield, in
the openings of
which | H[Brit.
Similar, but in
one opening H.
Mus.]
Wheel of four spokes in incuse
circle.
Mus.]
Wheel of four spokes, in two
quarters of which T A.
[Brit. Mus.]
Boeotian shield. Wheel of four spokes (not letter
^)
[Brit
in incuse square.
Mus.]
The wheel as a Tanagrsean coin-type may have been
borrowed from the wheel on the archaic coins of the
neighbouring Eubrean town of Chalcis, which was distant
from Tanagra only about 100 stadia (circ. 12 English
miles), and which must have been in constant commercial
relations with Aulis, the port of Tanagra on the opposite
bank of the Euripus. This interchange of coin-types
between Tanagra and Chalcis is further exemplified by a
remarkable stater of Chalcis of the Euboic standard in
the cabinet of Dr. Imhoof-Blumer, having on the obverse
a Boeotian shield and the letter Np'j the initial letter of
Chalcis, and on the reverse a wheel in an incuse square.
Another type which may also be borrowed by
Tanagra from Euboca, in this instance perhaps rather