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the Greeks still fasten gold coins with wax to the pictures of
saints. Coins dedicated in this solemn fashion had probably
mostly a history; but the ordinary coins presented to the gods,
the v6po-1tcra7ravTro8arv of the Delian lists, were used up for
cups or for repairs in the more artistic votive offerings which
required them. The custom of dedicating coins by throwing
them into sacred wells was common throughout Greece; and to
this fortunate habit we owe some very valuable hoards discovered
in modern days.
PERCY GARDNER.
1 See B.A. Cat. of Coins, Thessaly, 1 C. I. No. 1570.
&c., p. 158. 4 Philopseud. c. 20.
2By Dr. Birch in the Num. Chron. 5 Newton, Travels and
Discoveries,
vol. i. p. 194. i. p. 87 and ii. p. 5.
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