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MACEDON.—(7)) CHALCIDIAN DISTRICT.
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nician. No early coins are, however, known which can be with certainty
attributed to it, although it is possible that many uninscribed Mace-
donian coins, which have been found at Salonica, may have been struck
there. For some of these, see B. M. Cat., Mac., pp. xxv. and 135. The
only coins which can be said to be probably of Therma are those with a
Pegasos on the obverse, a type which seems especially applicable to
Therma, supposing it to have been a colony of Corinth.
Circ. b. c. 480.
Pegasos standing, or galloping with Flat incuse square, usually quartered .
hound beneath him. [B. M. Guide, Pl. IV. 12, 13.]
JR Tetradrachm, 213 grs.
See also Imhoof-Blumer (Mon. Gr., p. 105), who, while accepting the
coins with the Pegasos as probably of Therma, gives reasons for rejecting
the hypothesis that many other coins marked with the symbol or 0,
and bearing the types of various Macedonian towns, were also struck at
Therma.
See also Thessalonica, p. 312-.
D. Chalcidice.
The Greek towns which studded the coasts of Chalcidice, with its
three huge tongues of land extending far into the sea, were for the most
part sprung from the two enterprising Euboean cities, Chaicis and
Eretria. From Euboea these colonies derived the Euboic silver standard,
which took firm root in these northern regions, and continued in general
use until the latter part of the fifth century, when, as will presently be
seen, it was in nearly all of them superseded by the Phoenician or Mace-
donian standard.
Commencing with the eastern shores of the promontory, and taking
the towns in order from east to west, the first town we come to of which
coins are known is—
Orthagoreia. Eckhel (ii. 73), on the authority of a fragment of the
Geographi Minores, identifies Orthagoreia with Stageira, on the Strymonic
gulf (but see Pliny, iv. 11, 18). In style and weight its coins form an
exception to those of the other Chalcidic cities, and correspond with
those of the kings of Macedon from Archelaus to PerdiccasIII (b. c. 413-
359) as well as with the contemporary coins of Abdera and Maroneia.
Circ. B. c. 400-350.
Head of Artemis in profile ;
(B. M. Cat., Mac., p. 88).
Id. Three-quarter face. (76., p. 88).
Head of Apollo. (76., p. 89).
OPOArOPEflN Macedonian helmet
adverse, surmounted by star .
JR Persic Stater, 168 grs.
Id Hl Triobol, 42 grs.
Id PE Size -g
Apollonia.
South of Lake Bolbe, on the via Egnatia.
Circ. B.c. 400-350(1).
Young head crowned with ivy. | Af'OAAflNO^ Amphora . . 7E 1.
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nician. No early coins are, however, known which can be with certainty
attributed to it, although it is possible that many uninscribed Mace-
donian coins, which have been found at Salonica, may have been struck
there. For some of these, see B. M. Cat., Mac., pp. xxv. and 135. The
only coins which can be said to be probably of Therma are those with a
Pegasos on the obverse, a type which seems especially applicable to
Therma, supposing it to have been a colony of Corinth.
Circ. b. c. 480.
Pegasos standing, or galloping with Flat incuse square, usually quartered .
hound beneath him. [B. M. Guide, Pl. IV. 12, 13.]
JR Tetradrachm, 213 grs.
See also Imhoof-Blumer (Mon. Gr., p. 105), who, while accepting the
coins with the Pegasos as probably of Therma, gives reasons for rejecting
the hypothesis that many other coins marked with the symbol or 0,
and bearing the types of various Macedonian towns, were also struck at
Therma.
See also Thessalonica, p. 312-.
D. Chalcidice.
The Greek towns which studded the coasts of Chalcidice, with its
three huge tongues of land extending far into the sea, were for the most
part sprung from the two enterprising Euboean cities, Chaicis and
Eretria. From Euboea these colonies derived the Euboic silver standard,
which took firm root in these northern regions, and continued in general
use until the latter part of the fifth century, when, as will presently be
seen, it was in nearly all of them superseded by the Phoenician or Mace-
donian standard.
Commencing with the eastern shores of the promontory, and taking
the towns in order from east to west, the first town we come to of which
coins are known is—
Orthagoreia. Eckhel (ii. 73), on the authority of a fragment of the
Geographi Minores, identifies Orthagoreia with Stageira, on the Strymonic
gulf (but see Pliny, iv. 11, 18). In style and weight its coins form an
exception to those of the other Chalcidic cities, and correspond with
those of the kings of Macedon from Archelaus to PerdiccasIII (b. c. 413-
359) as well as with the contemporary coins of Abdera and Maroneia.
Circ. B. c. 400-350.
Head of Artemis in profile ;
(B. M. Cat., Mac., p. 88).
Id. Three-quarter face. (76., p. 88).
Head of Apollo. (76., p. 89).
OPOArOPEflN Macedonian helmet
adverse, surmounted by star .
JR Persic Stater, 168 grs.
Id Hl Triobol, 42 grs.
Id PE Size -g
Apollonia.
South of Lake Bolbe, on the via Egnatia.
Circ. B.c. 400-350(1).
Young head crowned with ivy. | Af'OAAflNO^ Amphora . . 7E 1.