In the neighbouring state of Macedonia, the tetradmchnut of the province struck in the first division, at Tliesealonica, have the bead of Alexander, the club of Hercules, and the name of the queator sEsillas; the second and fourth divisions are found, but not the third ; the didrachme of Acanthus have a lion devouring a bull, and are of the second period. Auricle has the head of "Eueas; the beautiful tetra drachms of Amphipolis, the laureat head of Apollo, and the torch of the lampadophoria ; those of Chalcidiee, the head of Apollo and his lyre; the archaic ones of Leta, a satyr and nymph ; Neapolia, a Gorgoneion ; of Philippi the ancient Cranides, there are staters with the head of Hercules, and the Delphic tripod.
Of the princes of Preonia, commencing with Audoleon, a.c. 340-330, there are fine didrachms with a hehned head and horse; those of Eupolemos, Lycceiue, and Patients, have a horseman overthrowing an enemy. The regal series of Macedon are remarkable for the light they throw ou the history of the coinage. The coins of Getas, king of the Iledonea, represent a man and two oxen ; those of his contemporary, Alexander 1., a man and horse ; a very archaic dekadraclun has a man in a car drawn by a bull ; and in the area the helmet of Caranus. There are drachms, didrachms, and obols of Archelaus, bronze coins of Xropus, didrachtns of Pausanias and Amyntas 11. ; drachms and brass coins of Pordiccas 111.; the goat refers to those which accompanied Caranus to dEgie. The staters of Philip IL, coined from the gold of Mount Pangieum, have the head of Apollo allud ing to Philip's protection of Delphi, and a two-horse chariot, alluding to his victories in the Olympian games; the eilver currency, principally didrachms, have the head of Zeus and a rider. Of Alexander the Great there is a great series of two or three issues ; this monarch ' recoined the whole currency of his empire, and struck numerous double stators with the head of Pallas and Victory, and tetradrachins with the head of Hercules and Zeus Olympius, in copper in the prin. ' cipal cities, suppressing the local mints ; the places of mintage are distinguished by the symbols of the coins of the cities where minted, placed in the area with the initials or monogram of the name of the city, as the Hose for Rhodes, the bead of Chnephis for Alexandria, the bee for Epheaus, the lion and bull for Miletus. The names arc given in contraction or by monograms as MTP1 Myrina, KOAO for Colophon.
Philip III., has staters and its subdivisions, tetradrachms on the type of Alexander the Great, and is distinguished from his predecessors by the assumption of the title of King. Caasander, struck only brass, with the head of Hercules and a lion. Philip IV. and Alexander 1V. only drachms and small coins ; Antigonus, staters with the head of Pallas and a trident, fine totradrachms with the head of Dionysos, and Apollo seated on a ship, referring to the victory of Cyprus, n.e. 306; Demetrius 1., staters on the type of Alexander, tetradrachins with his portrait, and l'oseidon ; others with Poseidon Promachos, and Victory sounding a trumpet on a galley, for the victory at Cyprus. Antigonus Gonatas, bee tetradrachnim, convex,
like the silver shields of the Argyraspideis with the head of l'an, and Pallas hurling thunder, on his copper Pan erects a trophy. Taming to Philip V., there arc fine tetradrachms on the typo of Antigonus, with the head of Perseus and the club, or his portrait, and Pallas hurling thunder, besides didrachms, drachms, and copper. Of the unhappy Penseus, D.C., 163, there are fine tetradmehms with his head, and the eagle and thunderbolt by the artist &Hun. Of Philip VI., there are only copper.
Theesaly ahounde in silver coins, the principal typo is the horse, the drachms have the bead of Zeus crowned with oak, and the Pallas !wide, the eight obol pieces of the Aenienes, the head of Pallas and the hero Then ictet slinging, the triobels of Lamirt, the ivy orowned head of Dionysos, and a diets or a tripod in a square, the drachmae of Larissa have Jason and the bull of Colchis, the horse in a square, the sandal of Jason left at the Anapus, the bead of the hero Alcuas and the eagle and thunderbolt; the didrachm, the head of Larissa or Coronis and a horse; those of the Octaei Hercules and a lion or spear ; the draehmie of Thalanna a youthful head and horse; those of Therai a female drawing water from a fountain ; .of this town are the tetra drachms of the tyrant Alexander, B.C. 363-359, with the head of Larissa or Coronis and a horseman. The early tetradrachms of the Oreskii a horseman with horses and spears. The coins of Illyricum are not interesting; the drachms of Apollonia have dancing nymphs and a volcano. Of Epirus there are tetrobols with the heads of Zeus and Fiera and a thunderbolt in an oak crown. The most important coins are those of the monarchy—of Neoptolemus and Alexander, B.o. 362-322, there are only brass; but of Alexander I., B c. 342-332, there are staters of fine work with the head of Zeus and a horseman, and silver obols with Helios; those of Py,..hus, B.C. 294-272, are of great beauty, and consist of henlistaters with the head of Artemis and Victory with a trophy and crown ; staters with the head of Pallas-Athene and the same, and also drachms with the head of Proserpina and Athene-Proma chos struck in Sicily ; Dyrrhacium has early coins like Corcyra and drachms with the head of Dionysos and a Pegasus of Corinth; the didrachms of Anactorinm have the head of Pallas and Pegasus ; the didrachm of Lomas has Artemis Nauplia with a ship and hind ; Thyreum, Achelous and Apollo; Aetolia the Achelous and Atalanta amidst shields, and triobols with the head of Atalanta and the boar of Calydon. The didrachms-and hetnidrachm of Locris offer the head of Persephone and Ajax Oileus, the old drachms and triobols of Phocis . the bticranium suspended on the temple and the head of Apollo. The archaic didrachms of Thebes and Bceotia have the celebrated bucklers ; the later didrachms the head of Dionysos, his golden amphora, and Poseidon, Hercules strangling the serpents, or shooting an arrow, a rare tetradrachm, the head of Zeus and Poseidon.