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240 J. MAVEOGORDATO.may be made between the cornucopiae of this typeand No. 69, and the drachm with AEPKYAoZ (typeNo. 66 y).No. 72.These coins can hardly be called a type, asthey differ so much amongthemselves in minor details.Still, they have a better claim than any other groupto be considered the successors of the last one. Thewreath, sometimes seen on the reverses, takes quite adifferent form from any of those used in type No. 67.The name APFHOZ ispresumably an illiterate renderingof APFEIoZ. In a local inscription apparentlybelonging to the first century B. c. (C. L G., No. 2220)a AioSwpos Ava-iKpdrov is mentioned as having beenhonoured with a gold wreath for pietytowards thegods and for good services to the state. It is justbe thispossible that the individuals referred to mayAi68a>pos and the Ava-iKpaT-r)? of type No. 65. TheZaxTTparos of this type no doubt also struck the coinswith the same name described under type No. 75, asthe latter cannot be very much later than this.In contrast to the last type all the symbols used hereare different.They have also all occurred on previoustypes, the eagle as far back as the drachms of No. 66 (3,The coins of ITroXe^aros" with an ear of corn on theobverse and a star on the reverse exhibit a feature thatwas seen frequently on the bronze type No. 62 a, buthas not occurred since. The way in which the starwas then used, in combination with nearly every othersymbol of the series, its reappearance in similar fashionhere, and its occasional employment in Imperial times166-88 B.C., where five drachms with different names occur bearingthe same symbol, the head dress of Isis. See G. F. Hill's Handbookof Greek and Roman Coins, pp. 120-1.