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MACEDONITAN THEORY OF CATTI & CASSI COINS 213

chariot, which is sometimes figured on the Early Briton coins, and often as a winged or Pegasus horse, is by no means Macedonian in origin. It appears on coins and in glyptic art long anterior to the Macedonian period ; and we have seen that Brutus came from the Macedonian frontier, within which was a colony of Parth-eni; so that the Britons doubtless derived that symbol independently from the same remote Barat source from which the Macedonians derived its unwinged form. And there is no trace on the Macedonian coins of the many solar Phcenician symbols which are stamped on the coins of the Britons, as we shall see later. In support of this Macedonian theory of Briton coinage, it is noteworthy that a type of coin was arbitrarily selected by its advocates, which is admittedly not Briton but “ Gaulish.” It is a type found commonly in Gaul, and when found in Britain it is more especially associated with the Gaulish tribe of Atrebates in Berkshire and other places inhabited by that tribe, who are usually identified with the ‘“‘ Belge ’’ immigrants, who, Czesar says, had recently before his arrival settled in the South of Britain. So obviously “ Greek’’ or Macedonian was this Gaulish type of coin that the fact was already noted in Gough's Camden? and by Poste.? But the confusion of argument in rearing upon this Gaulish type the Macedonian theory of British coinage is obvious by the statements that “this [Gaulish] type is beyond all doubt the earliest of the British series,* and derived through Gaul,’’* yet on the same page this conclusion seems contradicted by admitting that “the British coins are in all probability earlier than the Gaulish'"’*—which latter are placed at 150-100 B.C., as opposed to the earliest British, which he assigns to “a date somewhere between 150 and 200 B.c.° The Ear of Corn, the symbolic Aryan-Phcenician meaning of which we shall see later, so frequently figured on the Catti-Cassi coins of the Early Britons (see Fig. 3 and later),

and of Cunobeline,’ and on Pheenician and Phcenicianoid coins

‘In the text “Greek” is specified (1, cxiv); but the Index (Pp. 433) says “Macedonian.” +P.B.C., 7. 3 E.C.B., 25. 4Tb., 26. 5 Ib., 26, § [b., 26, 7 See A.A.C., Pl. xxiii. Figs., 1, 2, 3 and 4, 0