Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . nces who fol-lowed him exhibit the steps towards perfection veiygraphically. With Philip IL a new era in the Macedoniancoinage commences. At this period the coins hadi)ecome perfect on both sides, that is, had a reverseequal in execution to the obverse. Dm-ing hisreign the gold mines at Mt. Pangaeus were issued a large gold coinage, tlie pieces of whichwent by his name, and were put forth in such abun-dance as to circulate throu2;hout all Greece. The 1\IACESTUS. -eeries of coins, from Philip II. to the extinction ofthe monarchy, exhibit
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . nces who fol-lowed him exhibit the steps towards perfection veiygraphically. With Philip IL a new era in the Macedoniancoinage commences. At this period the coins hadi)ecome perfect on both sides, that is, had a reverseequal in execution to the obverse. Dm-ing hisreign the gold mines at Mt. Pangaeus were issued a large gold coinage, tlie pieces of whichwent by his name, and were put forth in such abun-dance as to circulate throu2;hout all Greece. The 1\IACESTUS. -eeries of coins, from Philip II. to the extinction ofthe monarchy, exhibit the finest period of Greekmonetary art. (Comp. H. N. Humphreys AncientCoins and Medals, London, 1850, pp. 58—65.)During the tetrarchy there are numerous existingcoins, evidently struck at Amphipolis, bearing thehead of the local deity Artemis Tauropolos, with an obverse representing the common Macedonian type, the club of Hercules within a garland ofoak, and the legend MaK^Mvuiv irpurris. (, vol. ii. p. 61, foil.) [E. B. J.]. COIX OF MACEDONIA. MACELLAorMAGELLA(Ma/<:€AAa: J/aceZ/flT-o),a town in the NW. of Sicilv, which is noticed byPolybius (i. 24) as being taken by the Roman con-suls, C. Duillius and Cn. Cornelius, as they returnedafter raising the siege of Segesta, in 260. Itis interesting to find the same circumstance noticed,and the name of this otherwise obscure town men-tioned, in the celebrated inscription on the rostralcolumn which records the exploits of C. Duillius.(Orell. Inscr. 549.) It would seem from Diodorus,that at an earlier period of the same war, theRomans had besieged Macella without success,which may account for the importance thus attachedto it. (Diod. xxiii. 4. p. 502.) The passage ofPolybius in reahty affords no proof of the position ofMacella, though it has been generally received as anevidence that it was situated in the neighbourhoodof Segesta and Panormus. But as we find a to^Tistill called Macellaro, in a strong position on a
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