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58 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.of Leontine independence by Dion in 356 B.C. Thecompanion issue of Syracuse itself doubtless dates fromthe time of his expedition in 357 B.C., and the introductionof these Tr&Aot with the civic name ofSyracuse is only one more exampleof Dion's Corinthianizingpolicy.We have therefore strong reasons for believing thatthe Corinthian staterof Terina, which agrees so closelyboth in style and design with these alliance pieces ofSyracuse and Leontinoi, was also struck about the timeof Dion's expedition.It would appear, however, that when very shortlyafter this date the Brettians had asserted their dominionat Terina, for some reason or other, probably as amedium of tribute, the citizens were temporarilyallowed to revive their traditional type of didrachmissue, with the addition, however, on the reverse, ofthe Brettian crab as the badge of their dependentposition.As this coinage seems to have followed almostimmediately on the short-lived issue of " pegasi," it wasno doubt owing to the influence of these that themonogrammatic "E was taken over on the obverse.But in if, agreement with Dr. Kegling, we place theissue of this type in or about 356 B.C. we are againbrought face to face with an obvious difficulty. Apartfrom the monogram and symbol, the types that it presentsso closely resemble those of the coin [PI. IV. 21],which can hardly have been struck, at the lowest estimate,later than 370 B.C., that the considerable discrepancyin date seems hardly explicable.Yet the explanation is, after all, quite simple. The" Brettian"type in question does not, in fact, representa new die, but simply the alteration of an old one.