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INTRODUCTION.
>
Orrescii, Zaeelii,
. . . naei, silver-
coining tribes of
the Pangaean
range.
The types on the other hand are purely Thracian,
the favourite subject for representation being a Centaur carrying off a
Nymph.
The Pangaean region with its port Neapolis and the Greek
island of Thasos, may, therefore, be looked upon as the starting
point of a coinage which gradually spread in a westerly direction,
probably by a route almost identical with that which the Romans
of later days called the Via Egnatia, to Lete, Tlierma,2 Ichnae,
Aegae, and thence, perhaps, even into the plain of the Haliacmon,
to which district, and not to Thrace, the coin of the Tynteni3
should perhaps be attributed, on account of its resemblance to the
coin of Ichnae, p. 76, no. 1.
The Orrescii,
Earliest silver
staters of the Pan- Babyionic silver standard as the coins of Croesus,
gaean district.
of Asia Minor of the time of Alyattes.1 The earliest Pangaean
silver money in like manner follows the same
the Zaeelii, and the . . . naei, are the names,
hitherto discovered, of the silver-coining tribes of
the Pangaean district. These peoples are not
mentioned in history, and are only known to us by
their money.
They possessed, by way of the pass across Mount
Symbolon and the port of Neapolis (now Kavala), a direct communi-
cation with the opposite island of Thasos and the Aegaean, and by
the land-route already mentioned, which was afterwards followed by
the army of Xerxes, an easy means of commercial intercourse with
the Macedonian valleys. In this way alone can we account for the
extension of the Babyionic Standard over so large an extent of
country.
1 Num. Chron. N.S. Vol. XV. Pl. X. 11. This coin will be catalogued in the
volume containing the money of electrum.
2 Zeit. f. Num. Vol. III. Pl. II. 3.
5 Zeit. f. Num. 1. c.
INTRODUCTION.
>
Orrescii, Zaeelii,
. . . naei, silver-
coining tribes of
the Pangaean
range.
The types on the other hand are purely Thracian,
the favourite subject for representation being a Centaur carrying off a
Nymph.
The Pangaean region with its port Neapolis and the Greek
island of Thasos, may, therefore, be looked upon as the starting
point of a coinage which gradually spread in a westerly direction,
probably by a route almost identical with that which the Romans
of later days called the Via Egnatia, to Lete, Tlierma,2 Ichnae,
Aegae, and thence, perhaps, even into the plain of the Haliacmon,
to which district, and not to Thrace, the coin of the Tynteni3
should perhaps be attributed, on account of its resemblance to the
coin of Ichnae, p. 76, no. 1.
The Orrescii,
Earliest silver
staters of the Pan- Babyionic silver standard as the coins of Croesus,
gaean district.
of Asia Minor of the time of Alyattes.1 The earliest Pangaean
silver money in like manner follows the same
the Zaeelii, and the . . . naei, are the names,
hitherto discovered, of the silver-coining tribes of
the Pangaean district. These peoples are not
mentioned in history, and are only known to us by
their money.
They possessed, by way of the pass across Mount
Symbolon and the port of Neapolis (now Kavala), a direct communi-
cation with the opposite island of Thasos and the Aegaean, and by
the land-route already mentioned, which was afterwards followed by
the army of Xerxes, an easy means of commercial intercourse with
the Macedonian valleys. In this way alone can we account for the
extension of the Babyionic Standard over so large an extent of
country.
1 Num. Chron. N.S. Vol. XV. Pl. X. 11. This coin will be catalogued in the
volume containing the money of electrum.
2 Zeit. f. Num. Vol. III. Pl. II. 3.
5 Zeit. f. Num. 1. c.