In connection with archaic coins it is curious that one cannot get away from John or Ion. The first people to strike coins are believed to have been either the Ionians or the Lydians, both of whom inhabited the locality of ancient Troy:[416] as early as the middle of the seventh century B.C., the Ægean island of Ægina, then a great centre of commerce, minted money, but the annalists of China go far further in their claim that as far back as 1091 B.C., a coinage was instituted by _Cheng_, the second King of Chou.[417] The generic term _token_ is radically _Ken_, _shekel_ is seemingly allied to Sheik, the Moorish or Berberian for a chief, and with _daric_, the Persian coin, one may connote not only Touriack but ultimately Troy or Droia. Our _guinea_ was so named after gold from Guinea; Guinea presumably was under Touriack or Berber influences, and we shall consider in a subsequent chapter Ogane, a mighty potentate of northern Africa whose toe, like that of Janus, the visitor most reverently kissed. [Illustration: FIGS. 240 and 241.--Archaic Carvings.] The Hackney of our early coinage thus not only appears pre-eminently upon it, but the very terms _coin_, _token_, _chink_, and _jingle_,[418] are permeated with the same root, _i.e._, Ecna, Ægina, or Jeanne. [Illustration: FIGS. 242 and 243.--Archaic Carvings.] That the worship of the Hackney stretches backward into the remotest depths of antiquity is implied by the carvings of prehistoric horse-heads found notably in the _trous_ or cave shelters of Derbyshire and Dordogne. The discoveries at Torquay in Kent's Cavern, in Kent's Copse, (or Kent's Hole as it is named in ancient maps), included bone, or horn pins, awls, barbed harpoons, and a neatly formed needle _precisely similar_ to analogous objects found in the rock shelters of Dordogne.[419] Many representations of horses and horse-heads have been found among the coloured inscriptions at Font de Gaune--the Fount of _Gaune_, and likewise at _Combar_elles: the Combar is here seemingly King Bar, and Bruniquel, another famous site of horse remains, is in all probability connected with the _broncho_. Perigord, the site of ancient Petrocorii, is radically _peri_, and Petro_cor_ii, the Father or Rock Heart, may be connoted with Iu_char_, the brother of Bryan and the father of Ecna, or _philosophy_. In England horse-teeth in association with a flint celt have been found at Wiggonholt in Sussex: the term _holt_ is applied in Cornwall to Pictish souterrains, and it is probable that Wiggonholt was once a holt or hole of _eu_ Igon: Ægeon was an alternative title of Briareus of the Hundred Hands, and as already shown Briareus was localised by Greek writers upon a British islet (_ante_, p. 82).