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VI.PEIMITIAE HEBACLIENSES.THE Heraclean mint was not so productiveas thoseof neighbouring cities, and, while famous for the finestyle of its earlier staters, has never attracted verygreat attention, although the main outlines of thechronological sequence of the coins have been established.See Head, Hist. Num. z , p. 72 seq. The earliercoins bear no inscription beyond the ethnic, but beforethe middle of the fourth century B.C. adjunct lettersand abbreviations of names begin to appear and continuehenceforward. The M c Clean collection in theFitzwilliam Museum includes twenty-six staters alarge number for this seriesvarieties might be unique.and it seemed that severalOn searching for parallelmuch interested to notice thespecimens I was verygreat variety of letters which occurred on a comparativelysmall number of coins. At the same timeit was apparent that Munsterberg'slist of "Beamtennamen"for Heraclea (Num. Zeit., 1911, p. 79),although including no abbreviations of less than threeletters, was even within these limits very incomplete,such examples as KAH, KAH, EYP, NEflN, EZfl-AAMOZ, ZHZIBIOZ, APIZTHN, and APIZTOEE-NOZ being among those omitted. In fact, his list ofeighteen names and abbreviations may be increased tothirty-five, apart from the single letters and combinationsof two letters. It seemed, then, worth while toHUM1SM. CHBON., VOL. XVII, SERIES IV.N