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FLORAL PATTERNS ON ARCHAIC GREEK COINS. 7
Apollo were put away at night. In refutation of this
theory it is sufficient to observe that the people of Apol-
lonia undoubtedly borrowed their type from Corcyra ;
and that the Corcyreans had nothing to do with the cave
in question. A simpler explanation will be truer. No
doubt the meaning of the device was entirely forgotten at
the time (second century B.C.) of the magistrate Chaeren.
In modifying it by the introduction of a fire and a pedum
he probably wished to make it more appropriate to the
city of Apollonia; the fire being introduced as a symbol
of the hot-springs of the place, as it is in later issues, and
the pedum probably having reference to Apollo -Aristeeus
in his character of Nomius.
In closing this brief discussion I may remark that all
analogy is in favour of an attempt to show that a group
of types belonging to early Greek coins has a meaning,
and that meaning a religious one. If I maintained it to
have no meaning, or to be purely secular in character,
there would be more need to make the ground secure.
FEKCY GARDNER.