54 MARATHON TO THEBES. 
CHAP, turned out to be of little or no value; either 
Roman coins of the Lower Empire; or Greek 
medals so injured by use and by time, that little 
could be discerned upon them. Many, how- 
ever, were purchased by us, of abetter date, 
and in better condition, at the usual price which 
we always paid, of two parahs for each bronze 
medal. After this, we obtained, with more diffi- 
culty, a few that were of silver, from the women; 
but these constituting a favourite ornament of 
their head-dresses, they very reluctantly consent 
to sell. We had not seen so many medals in 
one place since the visit we paid to HexamilUa, 
in the Isthmus of Corinth. Among them were 
medals of Philip the father of Alexander; or 
of Philip Aridceus; with the figure of a youth 
on horseback, perhaps Alexander upon Bu- 
cephalus, and this curious monogram, after the 
word BAClAenC, % for <l>IAinnOY: also 
medals of Thessaly, Boeotia, Phocis, ASlolia; but 
not one of Attica. Besides these were medals 
of cities; as of Pelinna — a very rare medal, 
struck after the Achaian League, with the legend 
entire, PEAINNAIHN , — L arymna, Chalcis, Thebes; 
and two which peculiarly interested us at the 
moment, from the present unknown situation of 
the city ; namely, of Tanagra, with the Omega 
differently written in the legend, being 
