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HISTOKICAL <strong>GREEK</strong> <strong>COINS</strong>1at Philip's own suggestion. In any case, Philipnow reinforced the settlement, and renamed itPhilippi. 2The Pangaean gold mines were at theirrichestnear Crenides, but were not properly exploiteduntil Philip turned his attention to them. The'Thasians of the Mainland ' who struck the coinNo. 41 were without doubt the colonists of 360-359B.C. When Philip reorganised the settlement, heissued thence the coins represented by No. 42, withthe types of the old colony, but with the newname. The mines yielded him more than onethousand talents a year,8a fact which accounts forhis enormous output of gold staters. 4Very few ofthese staters, however, were of the types of No. 42.Philip found it more in accordance with his policythat his gold coinage should be still more closelyidentified with himself, and hence the vast massof his newly acquired gold was made into royalstaters of the kind described below (No. 43).Philippi was then no longer allowed to issue coinsin its own name ;but its badge, the tripod, is of1Diod., xvi. 3, 7 (B.C. 360-359); D. G. Hogarth, Philip and Alexander,p. 48. The Thasians had for a long time possessed settlements on themainland. The new foundation appears to have been led by the Athenianorator Callistratus, who is said (Scylax, 68) to have founded a colony atDaton (he was in exile at the time). The name Daton probably includedthe whole district of Crenides and the coast on which stood Neapolis.Heuzey (Miss, de Macedoine, pp. 35, 62 f.) by this explanation reconcilesthe statement of Appian (Bell. Civ. tiv. 105) and Harpocration, thatPhilippi was once called Daton, and still earlier Crenides, with Strabo'saccount (vii. 331 fr. 36) of Daton as on the coast near the Strymon.2 3 Diod., xvi. 8. 6.Diod., loc. cit.* 1000 talents = 6,000,000 drachms = 3, 000,000 didrachms or staters.But we cannot be quite certain that Diodorus isgold alone. 79speaking of talents of

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