Note 312 — Chapter II · Athens

The corkscrew hair of the most archaic looking garland coins, above, pp. 55–56, is found on an obol, Babelon, Corolla Num. B. V. Head, pp. 1 f., inscribed ΗΙ𐅃, presumably short for Hippias. Probably it was struck by him in exile, ibid. p. 7, but in any case it associates the corkscrew curls with the tyranny. Num. Chron. 1908, pp. 278 f. shows the same corkscrew curls, and the inscription ΙΠ. This has been expanded both as Hippias and as Peisistratus, but cp. Muenzer and Strack, Münz. Nord-Griech. II. i. p. 8, n. 1.