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Rh young Hercules) found on the coins of Philip II. of Macedon. The wreath in some cases has been converted into a cruciform object, whilst the horse, derived from the two horses and biga on the reverse of Philip's coins, has retained its proper form more perfectly. The wheel of the biga, however, is shown about midway betwixt the fore-legs and hind-legs of the animal.



Buckinghamshire belongs to what Sir John Evans, for numismatic purposes, classifies as "the central district." "ANDOCO" and "AND," inscriptions which appear on coins found at Chesham and Ellesborough, are evidently fragments only of the name of a prince who ruled over a territory comprising parts of the counties of Bucks, Beds, and