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ENGRAVERS OF TERINA AND SIGNATURE OF EVAENETOS. 47dekadrachms by Evaenetos had already struck manyobservers. 51 But a wholly new complexion is put onthe matter by the discovery that the reverse type of theabove example bears the signature EYA, which can onlybe referred to Evaenetos himself.The letters are extraordinarily minute, and it was onlyowing to the happy accident that I had in my possessionthe absolutely fresh specimen describedabove, that I was able to detect them. 52Even so, they are better seen under anactual microscope than with an ordinarylens. The accompanying illustration is my own greatlyenlarged copy.Annexed is also a print from a photographic enlargement.The final A is here very clear, the Y is also discernible;but, curiously enough, the E, which isvisible even to the naked eye on thecoin itself, is a gooddeal blurred inthis reproduction, owing to its beingin shadow.In face of this signature on thereverse it becomes almost cerfainthat the obverse head so suggestiveof the mannerisms of this engraverwas not merely a copy, but was executed by the actual51E.g. Regling, Terina, pp. 54, 55; H. v. Fritze u. H. Gaebler,Nomisma, i. p. 19.52My reading has been confirmed by Professor J. L. Myres, Mr. G. F.Hill, and Dr. L. R. Farnell. On a fine specimen in the possession ofM. Robert Jameson (once Montagu) the E and the upper part of theY are clearly visible. An example in the Cabinet des M