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purchased others. These medals are curious, chap. 
and therefore they merit a particular description. , 
The first is nothing more than a silver medal 
of jilexnnder the Great. It exhibits the head 
of the king as Hercules, decorated with the 
Uons spoils; with the common reverse of a 
sitting figure of Jupiter, beautifully executed. 
As it serves to call to mind Alexanders, Expe- 
dition into Moesia, and his passage of Mount 
Htemus, it derives an additional interest from 
the circumstance of its locality. But the medal 
itself is remarkable ; it has neither legend nor 
monogram ; and it affords the only instance 
we ever saw of a fine reverse upon the medals 
of Alexander. Generally, the style of work- 
manship exhibited by the reverses of Alexander s 
medals is very inferior to that which the 
portrait displays ; but this is by the hand of 
a superior artist. 
The second is a medal of Rhescuporis, king 
of Thrace in a much later age. He was the 
uncle of the young Prince Cotys the Fifth. 
After sharing the sovereignty with him, about 
the seventh year of the Christian aera, he put 
him treacherously to death. His ferocious 
and ambitious character is described as the 
very opposite to that of his victim, who, to 
