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246 J. MAVKOGOKDATO.drachms, but the weights are really too low for thatdenomination even at this period of degraded standards.Besides, as I have pointed out, the drachms of type No.76 a and /?,the suggested contemporaries of the presenttype, weigh considerably more on the average thanthe bulk of their immediate predecessors. These pieces,especially the one now at Munich, represent a fullthird of the drachms in question, and it thereforeseems fair to assume that the old Ionic subdivisionhad been momentarily revived. A precedent for thisis afforded by the mint of Erythrae,where Atticdiobols were struck during the period 200-133 B.C.and possibly later as well. 120The die-positions, beingall ft, agree with those oftype No. 76 which show a similar uniformity.No. 78. Like the last type these bronze coins showall the characteristics of type No. 76. With regard tothe magistrates whose names they record we mayrestore A0HNA - - to 'Adrjvaios on the strength of thedrachm with that name, and "Apavos, a Jewish nameaccording to Pape, is another proof of the mixed natureof the Chian population at this time. This "Apavosmay have been one of the colonists who seem to havearoused the sympathies of Herod. Both sizes andweights are very irregular.No. 79. This rare coin betrays undoubted signs ofRoman influence in its obverse type, as alreadyobserved, and makes a rude break in the hithertouniform procession of Sphinxes. The substitution ofN for Z in the inscriptions of two out of the fourspecimens described suggestsa connexion with the120 Brit. Mus. Cat. Ionia, Erythrae, Nos. 149-52 and 198-9.