This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...skin. Rev. 4i IAIP PAN Tripod, adorned with fillets; above, laurel-branch; in field r., a Phrygian helmet. British Museum. Gold Stater, 8-62 grammes. Head, B. M. C. Macedon, p. 96; C. A., PI. 21, 13. The fall of Amphipolis in 357 B.c. and the alliance with Olynthus made Philip definitely master of the mining district ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...skin. Rev. 4i IAIP PAN Tripod, adorned with fillets; above, laurel-branch; in field r., a Phrygian helmet. British Museum. Gold Stater, 8-62 grammes. Head, B. M. C. Macedon, p. 96; C. A., PI. 21, 13. The fall of Amphipolis in 357 B.c. and the alliance with Olynthus made Philip definitely master of the mining district of Mount Pangaeus, and especially of Crenides. On this spot, a year or two before, a Thasian colony had settled, possibly at Philip's own suggestion.1 In any case, Philip now reinforced the settlement, and renamed it Philippi.2 1 See Frazer, Pausanias, vol. iii. p. 493. 2 On the other hand, OAT.MIIIKON has been compared with the APKAAIKON of the early Arcadian coins (B. M. C. Peloponnenu, p. Ivii). The former, however, is found on an isolated issue, the latter on a large series; the coin with the former seems to represent a special occasion, those with the latter to be an ordinary currency. The Pangaean gold mines were at their richest near Crenides, but were not properly exploited until Philip turned his attention to them. The 'Thasians of the Mainland' who struck the coin No. 41 were without doubt the colonists of 360-359 B.c. When Philip reorganised the settlement, he issued thence the coins represented by No. 42, with the types of the old colony, but with the new name. The mines yielded him more than one thousand talents a year,8 a fact which accounts for his enormous output of gold staters.4 Very few of these staters, however, were of the types of No. 42. Philip found it more in accordance with his policy that his gold coinage should be still more closely identified with himself, and hence the vast mass of his newly acquired gold was made into royal staters of the kind described below (No. 43). Philippi was then no longer allowed to issue ...
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