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226 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
menian coins, variously spelt YAOPO, EVD, and EYAO,
may be supposed to have held in that city the same post
(perhaps that of a Polemarch) as the magistrate at Thebes,
who is responsible for the contemporary Federal money.
The following bronze coin may also belong to this
period :
M., size 3.
Average wt.
40 grs.
PHAR^E.
Boeotian shield on
which ear of corn.
Obol. Boeotian shield.
12 grs.
OboL Similar.
12'5 grs.
[Brit. Mus. PL IV. 13.]
E P X O between
the eight rays of a star.
4> A. Amphora.
[Brit. Mus.]
j
4> A- Amphora, to left of
which, ear of corn.
[Brit. Mus.]
Between the Persian wars and the Peace of Antalcidas,
a period of nearly a hundred years, Pharse struck no coins.
At the Peace of Antalcidas its autonomy, like that of the
other Boeotian cities, was restored.
PLAT^EA.
Hemi-drachm.
88-7 grs.
Di-obol.
28-5 grs.
OboL
9-7 grs.
Hemi-draclim .
37-2 grs.
Boeotian shield. PAA. Head of Hera r.,
[Brit.
wearing Stephanos.
Mus. PL IV. 14. 8
]
Similar. Similar.
[Rev. Num., 1860, p. 270.]
Similar. No inscription. Similar.
[Bev. Num. 1. c.]
Similar. PAA. Head of Hera facing,
[Brit. Mus. PI. IV. 15."]
wearing Stephanos.
Nos. 14 and 15 are by an oversight marked M on the Plate.