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• PERIOD I. B. I. B. Plates 4-6. PiATE 4 1. Thrace or ThasOS. EL. Obv. Centaur carrying off a nymph. liev. Incuse. Phocaic stater. Wt. 252-5 grs. This remarkable electrum stater of the Pangasan district of Thrace or of Thasos is of the same weightstandard as the early electrum of Cyzicus and Zeleia, 1. A. 11, 12. 2. Thrace. Zseelii. M. Obv. lAIEAEnN. Centaur carrying off a nymph. Hev. Flat incuse square. Wt. 141-3 grs. 3. Thasos. JR. Obv. Satyr kneeling with a nymph in his arms. Hev. Incuse square. Wt. 150-2 grs. 4. JJete. -5J. Obv. Satyr standing opposite a nymph and holding her by the wrist. Bev. Incuse. Wt. 152*6 grs. 5. Lete. M. Similar, but of finer work. Wt. 146-6 grs. The types of the above coins all refer to the worship of the rude forces of nature symbolised in the orgiastic rites of the Thracian Bacchus and his following (Centaurs, Satyrs, Maenads, &c.). Mt. Pangaeum, on the summit of which was the famous oracle of Bacchus, was the religious centre of the Thracian mining tribes, whose coinage spread over the whole district north of Chalcidice, from the Nestos in the east to the Haliacmon in the west, before the time of the Persian wars. 6. Neapolis. JR. Obv. Gorgon-head. Hev. Incuse. Wt. 147 grs. Neapolis, opposite Thasos, was the port of the Pangaean district. Its coins follow the standard of the neighbouring mining tribes and of Thasos. 7. Acanthus. .ZR. Obv. Lion devouring bull. Iiev. Incuse square. Wt. 268 grs. All the early coins of the cities of Chalcidice follow the Attic standard. That there were lions in this district at the time of the Persian wars we learn from Herodotus, who relates how they came down from the mountains and seized upon the beasts of burden in the army of Xerxes. ^
B.C. 700-480. 9 8. Mende. JR. Obv. Crow on the back of an ass ; in the background, a vine. Hev. Incuse. Wt. 263-5 grs. The Dionysiac types on the coinage of this city refer to the famous Mendaean wine. 9. Potidaea. JR. Obv. Poseidon Hippios, on horseback, holding trident ; beneath, star. Bev. Incuse. Wt. 271*2 grs. This type is perhaps copied from the sacred image of Poseidon which Herodotus (viii. 129) mentions as standing in front of the city. 10. Terone. JR. Obv. Amphora. Hev. Incuse. Wt. 256-4 grs. This coin is re-struck on a tetradrachm of Acanthus. 11. Dicaea. JR. Obv. Cow scratching herself. Hev. Incuse. Wt. 38-3 grs. Dicaea in Chalcidice was a colony of Eretria in Euboea, whence its coin-types are derived. 12. Uncertain. JR. Obv. Pegasus standing. Bev. Incuse. Wt. 209-8 grs. 13. Uncertain. -51. Obv. Pegasus galloping, with dog beneath him. Bev. Incuse. Wt. 207 grs. These coins were both procured at Salonica, and may have been struck at the ancient Therma, before that city was incorporated in the Macedonian kingdom. Plate 5. 14. Bisaltae. JR. 06t-. BIZAATIKQN. Man carrying two spears standing on the furtlier side of a horse. Bev. Flat in^cuse square. Octadrachm. Wt. 422-9 grs. 15. Edoni. GetaS, king. JR. Obv. Man between two bulls. Bev. TETAZ HAONEON BAZIAEYZ. Incuse square. Octadrachm. Wt. 417-8 grs. 16. Orrescii. JR. Obv. ORREZKION. Similar type. Bev. In- cuse. Octadrachm. Wt. 440-3 grs. 17. Odomanti (?). JR. 06y. Bearded charioteer, in wicker-sided car drawn by oxen. In field above, helmet ; beneath oxen, flower. Bev. Triskeles of human legs ; between them, floral ornaments Dodecadrachm. Wt. 624-3 grs. The Bisaltaj, Edoni, Orrescii, Odomanti, &c., were Thracian tribes, who dwelt in the valleys of the Strymon and the Angites, to the north of the Pangaean range.
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PERIOD V. 71 The chief extant works
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B.C. 100-1. 117 capital Corfinium,
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Corinth, i. b. 30, 31; ii. b. 25; I
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