Excerpt from The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society, 1881, Vol. 1 But whencesoever the type of Pallas was immediately derived, it cannot be doubted that it was ultimately derived from Athens, and thus we are enabled to add another to the numberless proofs of the rapid and wide spread of Greek, and more especially of Athenian, civili sation through the regions of Central Asia in the age immediately succeeding that of Alexander the Great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.