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178 S. W. GROSE.the views there expressedis clear from his more recentarticle on the engravers of Terina (Num. Chron., 1912,p. 40).In his earlier work he seeks to explain manyabbreviated names as those of artists, to identify someof these with longer abbreviations and full names, andfinally to show that many of these artists worked fordifferent mints. For example, the artist Philistion isthought to have worked for Tarentum, Velia, Heraclea,Thurium, and Metapontum, although his full nameonly occurs on the Velian coins 5 (Horsemen of Tarentum,pp. 110-1-2). It- is apparent that such coins must beroughly contemporary. An interval of fifty yearsbetween any of them, while not impossible, would bedisconcerting; an interval of from eighty to onehundred years is obviously impossible. Apart fromthe definite exclusion of certain coins, such a gap wouldbe fatal to a general method which is largely concernedwith similarities in style."We will first consider the case of $1 or6H,