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182 S. W. GKOSE.is <strong>the</strong> commonest coin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> group. Of fourteenspecimens only two were unweighed, <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs<strong>the</strong> Montagu coin is <strong>the</strong> only one <strong>of</strong> unreduced weight.<strong>The</strong> second exception is Hirsch Cat, xxx, No. 153,where a weight <strong>of</strong> 7-65 grms.is recorded for a coinwith FM-hA-IAn (5 ad). Now this coin has <strong>the</strong>ra<strong>the</strong>r rare three-quarter-face head <strong>of</strong> A<strong>the</strong>na forobverse type, <strong>and</strong> thus must st<strong>and</strong> in close connexionwith a M c Clean coin <strong>of</strong> full weight where AP IT isread with <strong>the</strong> three-quarter-face head while AEON<strong>and</strong> hA are found on <strong>the</strong> reverse (5 Jc). On ano<strong>the</strong>r fullweightspecimen AEHN is read (5 7c, note), while R-FA-APNIAZ are found on yet ano<strong>the</strong>r full- weightstater (5 g] where <strong>the</strong> reverse type shows Heraklescrowning himself. But this type <strong>and</strong> both R <strong>and</strong>hA are far commoner on staters <strong>of</strong> reduced weight."We have no need, <strong>the</strong>n, to suppose that any <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>weights have been wrongly given in <strong>the</strong> catalogues,a thing in itself quite possible. We can simply stateas a fact that <strong>the</strong> great majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> l coins <strong>the</strong>se criteria have failed.Moreover, we have every right to assume that no10With <strong>the</strong> exception <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> coin in Carelli mentioned above.

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