>4 ISLAND OF PATMOS. 
CHAP, trating the history of Grecian cities, where no 
medals were struck during the period in which 
they were governed by their own laws. No 
medal of Patmos has been discovered; neither 
is it likely that any ever did exist, as the island 
was hardly inhabited when the Romans made it 
a place of exile. The gold medals gold to us by 
the Prussian Consul were, in all probability, not 
found upon the island, but brought by its trading 
vessels: it is a common occurrence to meet with 
such antiquities in the hands of Greek sailors, 
who collect them for sale. The medal of Lysi- 
machus exhibited, as usual, a fine portrait of the 
deified A 'A zander; whose image, " expressed on 
gold or silver," was so long considered as pro- 
pitious to its possessor '. Concerning the medals 
of Lysimathus, and this image, the author must 
refer to a former work, rather than repeat 
what has been already published 2 ; but with 
regard to the gold medals of Philip, bearing the 
legend 4>IAinPOY, so much doubt has gene- 
rally prevailed, that it may be proper to add 
a few words upon the subject. It has been usual 
(l) " Dicuntur juvari in omni aotu suo qui Alexandrum cxpressum 
vel auro gestitant vel argento." Trelell. Pollio, Quiet, xiii. p. 1090. 
Hut. Rom. Script, apud H. Steph. 1568. 
(?) See " Tomb of Alexander." Cetmb. 1805. 
