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ENGRAVERS OF TERINA AND SIGNATURE OF EVAENETOS. 53projected " Vallum," which, however, seems never to63have attained completion. Terina, though apparentlyallowed to retain a nominal autonomyfor its namedoes not appear among the cities which the tyrantannexed or destroyed must have been in a positionof great dependence.In view of these circumstances, we shall not be far outin placing the beginning of the period of Syracusaninfluence on the coinage of Terina at about 390 B.C. Thetype in which Kimon's* influence is so marked may datefrom about that year. The dies on which Evaenetos'name appears were executed somewhat later, and mustbe ascribed to the very close of the activity of thatengraver, perhaps almost as late as 375 B.C. Themannerism of the head on the obverse itself suggestsa very late phase in his style.Closely allied to this first group of coins in the" " rich style, presenting the signature of Evaenetos,are two other types, Nos. 83 and 84 of Dr. Eegling'slist[PI. IV. 21, 22]. So far as concerns the style and detailsboth of the head on the obverse of these coins and ofthe seated figure on the reverse, it isimpossible todraw any distinction between the two. But No. 84[PI IV. 22] presents the monogram3" on its obverse,anda crab is inserted in the exergual space of the reverse. 64The additional features exhibited by the lastmentionedexample will receive particular considerationbelow. So far as the main types of these coins63Strabo, vi. 1, 10. I may be allowed to refer to my note on the" Vallum of Dionysios " in Freeman's History of Sicily, iv. p. 203.64PI. IV. 22 is taken from an impression from the unique example ofthis piece in the Imperial Cabinet at Vienna, kindly supplied me byDr. Kubitschek.