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CHRONOLOGY OF THE COINS OF CHIOS. 215to appear, and the change was no doubt hastened bya greatly increased number of foreigners among thecitizens. Apart from its inherent probability thissupposition is confirmed by the names recorded on thecoins. Among the later issues little groups cancommon tooccasionally be picked out with a designall the coins composing them, like type No. 76 a insilver, and Nos. 78 and 83 in bronze, but they arequite rare exceptions.Real innovations in type, which are most unusual andonly to be found on bronze coins, appear when theRoman influence began to make itself strongly felt[PI. IX. 14 and 19].The former of these, to whichattention has already been drawn, is clearly an agonistictype connected with the local games' in honour ofDionysus. 107The accession of Augustus seems to have beenmarked by a momentary improvement in the style ofthe coins, and by a certain archaism in their lettering.The pre-Augustan drachms still to be described maybe divided into the three main types that follow.Rev.69. Obv. Sphinx with sketchy curled wing, and hairfastened in knot behind with a loose lock ortwo hanging on neck, seated 1. on plainexergual line, sometimes lifting farther forepaw.Human breast clearly denned. In frontof itvarying symbol, usually grapes and prow ;and the whole, generally, in border of dots.Work in low relief.Tall thin amphora with lip between magistrate'sname r. and XI OZ 1. In field 1.varyingsymbol, as a rule, and the whole in wreath ofvarying design or border of dots.107For references to games in inscriptions see Boeckh, C. I. G.,Nos. 2214 and 2221 b ;also Fustel de Coulanges, op. cit., p. 308.