. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 396 PALAFITTES, OE LACUSTEIAN CONSTRUCTIONS COINS. "We were so forttmate, last year, (1864,) as to recover from the station of the Teue the first lacustiiau money, (Fig. 90.) This consisted of genuine Gallic coins, bearing on the obverse the effigy of a man in profile, on the reverse the characteristic image of the horned horse, which has some- times been regarded as a bull or he goat, and which was probably only an allegory, a fan- ta
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 396 PALAFITTES, OE LACUSTEIAN CONSTRUCTIONS COINS. "We were so forttmate, last year, (1864,) as to recover from the station of the Teue the first lacustiiau money, (Fig. 90.) This consisted of genuine Gallic coins, bearing on the obverse the effigy of a man in profile, on the reverse the characteristic image of the horned horse, which has some- times been regarded as a bull or he goat, and which was probably only an allegory, a fan- tastic animal, serving perhaps as an ensign, as we still exhibit the unicorn and griffon in our ' Figure 90. escutcheons. These coins, to the number of five, (one of which has been deposited in the museum of Neuchatel, and another in that of Saint-Germain,) are all of the same type, but with slight variations in the figure of the horse and effigy of the human head, which is diffii-rent on each piece, representing probably five different chiefs. The coins, which bear no legend, are of bronze, simply run in moulds, united with one another by a neck, after the manner in which children cast their leaden playthings. The two seams of the neck, which united the corresponding pieces, are distinguishable in all. This type of Gallic money is to be met with quite frequently, not only in. France, but in Switzerland, as will be apparent on comparing them with the collection of drawings by Dr. Meyer of Zurich.* Very similar ones exist from Tiefenau, near Berne, where they are associated with others bearing the effigy of Diana and Apollo, and the impress of Marseilles. Besides those coins in bronze, there have been taken from the palafitte of the Tene some of gold and silver; among others, a small gold piece which is quite frequent in Switzerland, being a bad imitation of the philippics of Macedon; on the obverse is exhibited a head of Apollo with a crown of laurel, on the reverse a biga with t
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