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.the Archonfhip of Antigenes, the Athenians coined 
their golden images of Victory ; and the author of the 
treatife ne^i epfzlweiccgy § 298, praifes an orator for 
the happy choice of his expreflion, when he propofed 
this expedient ; but he neither mentions the orator’s 
name, nor the time when this happened, nor whether 
the Athenians followed his advice j though the fcho- 
liaft’s fhort quotation from Philochorus ieems to im- 
ply that they did. But if in ver. 732. above men- 
tioned, for we read agree 
better with ver. 737. where the Poet calls this money 
•srovviptx and the fcholiaft on thefe words fays, 
perhaps the Poet means the copper money of Callias } 
and this comedy was aded in his fecond Archonfhip, 
when that copper money was coined. 
That they had ho gold coin at the beginning of 
the Peloponnefian war, appears from the account 
Thucydides gives of the treafure then in the Acropolis, 
which conffted of fiver in coin, and gold and fiver 
bullion (7) j but he would certainly have mentioned 
gold in coin, had there been any. 
Therefore the apxocTov vopcia-ptoc. of Ariftophancs 
could not be gold, nor the bale Kocjvov of equal 
value with the Daric ; whence I conclude, KOjvov 
to be the true reading ; and that it was the 
copper money above mentioned, which was after- 
ward cried down. 
Athenaeus tells us that gold was extremely fcarce in 
Greece, even in the time of Philip of Macedon ; 
but that, after the Phoceans' had plundered the 
(7) Thucyd, L. ji. §13. *' 
Pythian 
