Found By A Coin

A coin is in itself a history. Thoro was oncea lost city which" owes its placo to acoin. For over 1,000 ycai-s no ono kiiciv wiiere Pandosia was. liistory told us that at-Pandosia King Pyrrhtis col lee tod tbosé forcea with wliich he overran Italy, and that ho fist.ii)üsM(!il i mint. tliere; but no oiio could put theirflnger on Pandosia.- Eight yeU'8 ago a coin camo under the sharp eyea of a niiniismatist. - Tiiore vvoi-o tlic letters Panclosia inserited on it, but what was botter, thero vvtis an emblern, indicative of i woll-known rivur, tlio Gi-athis. ïiion everythjng was revpaleJ wlth the '■.me oeftaintyas if the piece ofinoney had l)oci) an atlas, and Pandosia, the mythionl city, was at ouco giv.üj its proper popitioii in Bruttium. Novv, a coin may bo vakiable tor artistic mei-it, but when it ehicidates a doubt tul point in liistory or geography its worth is very much ennauoea. Tiiis sil ver uoin brought athousaud dollars.