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 | | The early silver coins conjecturally attributed to it recall, in their type of the kneeling he-goat, the story told of Karanos its founder, a brother of Pheidon, king of Argos, who was directed by an oracle ‘to seek an empire by the guidance of goats’. |
 | | Amyntas III, however, found himself compelled to hand over the maritime district of Macedon to the Olynthians, and it is to this interval that the bronze coins of Pydna, identical in type with those of Amyntas, belong. |
 | | Amyntas III, First Reign, B.C. „ „ Second Reign, B.C. Some of the coins bearing the name of Amyntas may belong to the short reign of Amyntas II. |
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