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28 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.the outline of the wingbehind with a harsh transversalline. The characteristic effect of the wing curvingforward like a halo in front of the head is thusdestroyed.Without denying the influence of sculpture, it mustbe said that the prevalent characteristics of both theabove types are of the pictorial order. In the case ofthe design with the source the whole background isfull of detail to an extent which certainly would notbe found in any contemporary work of architecturalrelief. It is true that in later Hellenistic times, whenthe painter's methods had gained a much greater holdon sculpture, parallels might be found for this variedtreatment of the background. But in the last quarterof the fifth century B.C., to which this coin belongs,such a phenomenon would have been non-existent.When we remember that precisely at this periodZeuxis made Kroton, the mother city of Terina, the centreof his activities, and was engaged in decorating thepanels of the Templeof Hera Lakinia with a series ofdesigns, amongst them the celebrated Helen,it isdifficult not to accept Lenormant's view that themarkedly pictorial style of these and other more or lesscontemporary types of this part of Magna Graecia was dueto the influence of the great Italiote painter.The facingheads of Hera Lakinia that appear both on the coins ofKroton itself and of itsdaughter city Pandosia, arenot improbably taken over from some well-known paintingon the temple walls. Equally pictorial are thereverse types with which they are associated the seatedHerakles in the one case and the Pan in the other.The tendency to facing delineations illustrated by thehead of Hera and the seated Pan, and the evolution of the