56 ISLAND OF PATMOS. 
CHAP, although remarkable for boldness of execution 
and for the sharpness of the die, betray some- 
tiling of the rude style discernible in the 
coinage of his predecessors, although the art 
were subsequently carried to such an extra- 
ordinary point of perfection during the reigns 
of Lysimachus and of Philip Arid&us. In order 
to form a correct opinion upon this subject, 
and to be convinced that the gold coinage now 
alluded to did not belong to the age of Philip 
the Second, something more is requisite than 
the examination of a particular medal: it is 
necessary to view the whole series of the coins 
of the Macedonian kings, and, by observing 
the changes introduced into their mint, to 
become acquainted with the style which denoted 
the progress of the art at any particular 
period; from the unfigured reverses and indented 
squares of Alexander the First and of Archelaih % 
struck nearly five centuries before the Christian 
aera, to the exquisite perfection of design and 
the elegant fabrication visible in the medals of 
Macedan and Thrace, under the immediate suc- 
cessors of Alexander the Great. 
A few of the inhabitants came to the Consul's 
house, to see us. Nothing can be more remark- 
able than the situation of the town, built upon 
