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<strong>HISTORICAL</strong> <strong>GREEK</strong> <strong>COINS</strong>writers assume that this was done after the secondexpedition into Thessaly, when the ' tyrants ' wereexpelled, and the Macedonian power firmly establishedin the country. Demosthenes speaks of the1new tetrarchal organisation of the country in 344-343and two years afterwards, in a tone which he wouldhardly have employed had it been ten years old. 2We may take it therefore that the current view asto the date of the new organisationis correct. If,as Gardner supposes, Simus issued the coins as oneof Philip's tetrarchs and byhis permission, we maybe surprised that none of the three other tetrarchs,who doubtless enjoyed the same privileges,isknown to have issued coins with his own name.The coins therefore would seem to belong to theperiod before the organisation of the tetrarchy.Simus, and the others who had invited Philip intoThessaly, such as Eudicus and Thrasydaeus, 3 weremade ''over their fellow-countrymen undertyrantsPhilip's protection ; and when Philip had donewith them, after his second expedition, he castthem off.This was the expulsion of the tyrants ofwhich Diodorus speaks; and the statements ofDemosthenes and Harpocration accord perfectlywell on this hypothesis. The position of the'tyrants,' in the comparatively informal arrangementwhich subsisted between Philip's two expeditions,need not have been quite the same in allDiod., xvi. 69.8 (344-343 B.C.).12 Phil. , ii. 22, iii. 26. In the former passageReiske has shown thatSeKadapxiav should be rerpapxlav (see Beloch's note, Or. Oesch,, ii.pp. 532-3).3Theopomp., fr. 235 (F. H. (?., i. 317) in Athen., vi. 249 C.95

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