EARLY MAN 



young Hercules) found on the coins of Philip II. of Macedon. The 

 wreath in some cases has been converted into a cruciform object, whilst 

 the horse, derived from the two horses and biga on the reverse of Philip's 

 coins, has retained its proper form more perfectly. The wheel of 

 the biga, however, is shown about midway betwixt the fore-legs and 

 hind-legs of the animal. 



BRITISH GOLD COINS FOUND AT WHADDON CHASE. 



Buckinghamshire belongs to what Sir John Evans, for numismatic 

 purposes, classifies as "the central district." " ANDOCO " and "AND," 

 inscriptions which appear on coins found at Chesham and Ellesborough, 

 are evidently fragments only of the name of a prince who ruled over 

 a territory comprising parts of the counties of Bucks, Beds, and 



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