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170 S. W. GKOSE.print, in the first place, a full list of these letters ;forany future attempt to fix the die sequences at Heracleato theis certain to meet with many difficulties owingof most varieties. Secondly, although notgreat raritypart of my original purpose, this list has suggestedsome notes on the theory, as applied to Heraclea, thatthese abbreviations represent artists' signatures.of these coins are describedUnfortunately, so manyin the catalogues without illustration or indication ofweight and date that, for greater convenience, it hasbeen necessary to classify the inscriptions accordingto their length rather than in chronological groups.The weight, where it could be ascertained, has beengiven only in those cases which occur in the later discussion;but it may be assumed that most unweighedcoins are probably earlier than the reduced standardof c. 280 B.C. "With one or two exceptions, noted asthey occur, all the coins given below are silver staters.To the 35 examples of at least three letters we mayadd 27smaller abbreviations and the monogram JBJ(HPAKA). These are used singly or in combination inabout 80 different ways, though the total number of1coins examined is only about 220. Further, 38 of theseare of the type 4 (a), 14 of the type 5 (v),13 of thetype 1 (I),and 12 of the type 5 (d). Nearly 50 ofthe 80 combinations are only known to me by a singlespecimen, and for twelve of them the most modernauthority is to be found in the works of Carelli andGarrucci.1Using the British Museum, Hunter, M c Clean, Leake, Ward,Warren, and Jameson collections ;the works of Imhoof-Blumer,Sambon, Carelli, and Garrucci ;and the sale catalogues of homeand continental sales for the past thirty or forty years.