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CHKONOLOGY OF THE COINS OF CHIOS. 245sub-type but from every other Chian issue hithertodescribed. It will be seen to bear the word XI.QN onthe reverse in place of XloZ. which had been theestablished form of inscription since letters first appearedupon the coinage. The ethnic in the genitiveplural was the form finally adopted for the Imperialcoinage, though the old and, for the Asiatic coast,uncommon place-name in the nominative singularheld its own for a little while among the earliest ofthe new bronze pieces. On the assumption, then, thatno silver was struck at Chios after the accession ofAugustus we seem to have in this drachm the lastautonomous issue that has survived, with the possibleexception of type No. 80.The way in which the magistrate's name is writtenon this coin, TAAYKoX, is a proof that the Ionicdialect was no longer employed at Chios, for the samename appears under the form TAAoKoZ at Erythraein the previous century (Brit. Mus. Cat. Ionia, Erythrae,No. 150).No. 77. The style of these small pieces [PI. IX. 9],their lettering, and everything about them mark themas the contemporaries of type No. 76 a and /?,whichseems to have belonged to a period of some activity.As will be seen these coins bear neither magistrate'sname nor symbol, for the bunch of grapes on thereverse must not, I think, be regarded as the latter.Two out of the three specimens known bear what ispresumably a blundered inscriptionXIN, the Berlinspecimen with XIOW appearing to show, although notdecisively, that the usual form of inscription wasintended.Dr. Imhoof-Blumer has called these coins hemi-