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KEPMATIA ΦΙΛΙΑΣ
τ ιmicroητ ικός
τόmicroος για τον
Ιωάννη
Τ ο υ ρ ά τ σ ο γ λ ο υ
ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ983085ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ
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K E P M T I Φ Ι Λ Ι Α Σ
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N M H
ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΟ Μ ΟΥΣ Ε ΙΟ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ
Ι Υ ΠΟ Υ Ρ Γ ΕΙ Ο Π Ο Λ Ι Τ Ι Σ ΜΟ Υ Ι ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ Ι
I HELLENIC MINISTRY OF CULTURE I Ν U M ISM TI C MUSEU M I
Ι βκδόσβιςΟηmicroα
Σ Υ Ν Τ Α Κ Τ Ι Κ Η Ε Π Ι Τ Ρ Ο Π Η
Στέλλα ∆ρούγου
Κ α θ η γ ή τ ρ ι α Α ρ χ α ι ο λ ο γ ί α ς
Α ρ ι σ τ ο τ έ λ ε ι ο Π α ν ε π ι σ τ ή micro ι ο Θ ε σ σ α λ ο ν ί κ η ς
∆έσποινα Ευγενίδου
∆ ι ε υ θ ύ ν τ ρ ι α Ν ο micro ι σ micro α τ ι κ ο ύ Μ ο υ σ ε ί ο υ
Χαράλαmicroπος Κριτζάς
Α ρ χ α ι ο λ ό γ ο ς Ε π ί τ ι micro ο ς ∆ ι ε υ θ υ ν τ ή ς Ε π ι γ ρ α φ ι κ ο ύ Μ ο υ σ ε ί ο υ
Νικόλαος Κάλτσας
∆ ι ε υ θ υ ν τ ή ς Ε θ ν ι κ ο ύ Α ρ χ α ι ο λ ο γ ι κ ο ύ Μ ο υ σ ε ί ο υ
Βάσω Πέννα
Ε π ί κ ο υ ρ ο ς Κ α θ η γ ή τ ρ ι α Β υ ζ α ν τ ι ν ή ς Ι σ τ ο ρ ί α ς
και
Ν ο micro ι σ micro α τ ι κ ή ς
Π α ν ε π ι σ τ ή micro ι ο Π ε λ ο π ο ν ν ή σ ο υ
Ηώς Τσούρτη
Ν ο micro ι σ micro α τ ο λ ό γ ο ς
Μίνα Γαλάνη983085Κρίκου
Ν ο micro ι σ micro α τ ο λ ό γ ο ς
Ευτέρπη Ράλλη
Ν ο micro ι σ micro α τ ο λ ό γ ο ς Ν ο micro ι σ micro α τ ι κ ό Μ ο υ σ ε ί ο
E D I T O R I A L C O M M I T T E E
Stella Drougou
Professor of Archaeology
Aristotelian
University
of
Thessalonike
Despoina Evgenidou
Director
of the
N u m i s m a t i c M u s e u m A t h e n s
Charalampos
Kritzas
Archaeologist
H onor ar y D i r e ctor
of the
Epi g r aphi ca l Muse um A the ns
Nikolaos
altsas
Director
of the
Nati onal
Archae olog ica l
M u s e u m A t h e n s
Vasso Penna
Assistant
Professor
of Byzant i ne H i s tor y and Numi smati cs
University
of
Peacuteloponnegravese
Eos Tsourti
Numismatist
Mina Galani Krikou
Numismatist
Efterpi Ralli
Numismatist Numismatic Museum
Athens
Η λ ε κ τ ρ ο ν ι κ ή υ π ο σ τ ή ρ ι ξ η Ν ί κ ο ς Σ ο υ γ λ έ ς
Electronic processing Nikos
Sougles
ΧΟΡΗΓΟΣ
ponsor
^ LPH B N K
copy Νοmicroισmicroατικό Μουσείο εκδόσειςσηmicroα
ΣΧΕ∆ΙΑΣΜΟΣ
Ι
ΕΠΙΜΕΛΕΙΑ
Ι
ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΗ εκδόσειςΟΓίmicroα
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ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΜ
Πρόλογος
Εργογραψία
Εισαγωγή
Χ α ρ ά λ α microπ ο ς Μ Π Α Κ Ι Ρ Τ Ζ Η Σ
ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΤΟΥΡΑΤΣΟΓΛΟΥ ό αρχαιολόγος
ΝΟΜΙΣΜ ΤΙΚΗ
Χ α ρ ά λ α micro π ο ς Β Κ Ρ Ι Τ Ζ Α Σ
Andrew MEADOWS
Olivier
PICARD
Γ Α ΠΙΚΟΥΛΑΣ
Μιχάλης ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΣ
Έ λ ε ν α
ΒΛΑΧΟΓΙΑΝΝΗ
Ε υ α γ γ ε λ ί α
ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ
Maria CACCAMO
CALTABIANO
F
DE CALLATAY a nd
R KA N
Wolfgang FISCHER983085BOSSERT
Nina
FROLOVA
Christos
GATZOLIS
Selene PSOMA
Dominique
GERIN
Giovanni
GORINI
Στ έλ λ α
KATAKOYTA
Οβολοί ργολικοί
Money in an ideal world
Plato
s Laws and the dual
nature
of
Coinage
Le deacutecret amphictionique sur le teacutetradrachme steacutephaneacutephore et les technites
Εν α
νόmicroισmicroα και κάποιες ιστορίες
Αττικά laquoεραλδικάraquo και laquoνέας
τεχνοτροπίας
raquoνοmicroίσmicroατα
κα ι
οι σχέσεις
τους
microε
τους
παναθηναϊκούς αmicroφορείς
laquoΘησαυρόςraquo νοmicroισmicroάτων σε κλειστό
ταφικό
σύνολο
απ ό το βόρειο983085ανατολικό νεκροταφείο της Θήβας
ΣκάρφηπόλιςΑοκρίδος
W hy is there t he
head
of a Silenus o n
theAitna
tetradrachm
A new silver
denomination
of Lysimachus
a unique hemidrachm
(from
Mytilene) with Athena
Parthenos
on the
reverse
Goldene Charonsgroschen
Caucasian imitations
of Alexander a nd Lysimachus
Golden
Stater
More
on t he Bottiaeans of Thrace
Sphinges perdues
et
retrouveacutees
cinq monnaies de Samothrace
dans
la
Collection Chandon
de
Briailles
A parcel of a 4th century Athenian Tetradrachms Hoard
laquoΘησαυρός raquoαργυρών νοmicroισmicroάτων από την
αρχαία
Φάρσαλο
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9
109
117
127
13
14
153
159
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ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ
Koray KONUK
Θεόδωρος ΚΟΥΡΕΜΠΑΝΑΣ
Sophia KREMYDI983085SICILIANOU
John Η
KROLL
Ά δ ω ν ι ς Κ ΚΥ Ρ Ο Υ
Metodi MANOV
Βασίλης ΠΟΥΛΙΟΣ
Ε υ τέ ρ πη ΡΑΛΛΗ
Ilya PROKOPOV
Hans983085Dietrich
SCHULTZ
Kenneth SHEEDY
Vassiliki
E STEFANAKI
Stavri TOPALOV
∆ ή microητρ α Τ Σ ΑΓ ΚΑΡ Η983085Σ Τ Ε Φ ΑΝ Η
ώςΤΣΟΥΡΤ
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
Chrysanthos
VALASSIADIS
Bernha rd WEISSER Karsten DAHMEN
Michel AMANDRY
Slobodan DUaumlANIC
Wolfgang LESCHHORN
Katerini LIAMPI
Heacutelegravene NICOLET PIERRE
Ινώ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ
Cleopatra PAPAEVANGELOU983085GENAKOS
Kasolaumlba A new mint in
Karia 177 183
Αδηmicroοσίευτες επικοπές στα ελληνιστικά νοmicroίσmicroατα Θεσσαλονίκης
Αmicroφίπολης
και
Πέλλας
185983085190
T he
Tauropolos tetradrachms of the
first
Macedonian Mens
Provenance Iconography and dating
191983085201
An addition to
th e
Eleusinian
Triptolemospiglet coinage 203983085205
Η
τελευταία
Ερmicroιονική
φρουρά
στη νήσο
Τδρέα 207983085217
Relationships
between
two Scythian kings in
Dobroudja
and
some macedonian
hellenistic kings evidenced by
epigraphical
and numismatic data
219983085225
laquoΘησαυρόςraquoαργυρών νοmicroισmicroάτων Αmicroφίπολης και Θάσου
από
το νεκροταφείο της αρχαίας Γαζώρου (CHIX 18)
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Θησαυρός microολύβδινων συmicroβόλων από το Κορωπί Αττικής
235983085245
Basic coin types in Thrace
recorded
quantities and their participation
in the
coin circulation
during
the
2nd983085lst centuries BC
247983085253
Samische Phylen
255983085261
Ios
and Syros Studies in
th e
hellenistic coinages
of the Cyclades
263983085269
Le
monnayage
de
bronze
de
Viannos et
de
Malia
en
Cregravete orientale 271 283
A bronze coin of the type of Alexander III re-minted with stamps
of the coin type ofPhilip II 285 291
Έ να
microοναδικό τετράδραχmicroο τηςΑιτωλικής Συmicroπολιτείας 293983085297
Η
συλλογή Θεοδώρας
Αυγέρη 299983085319
On the Skione 19901 hoard [GB
VIII
(1994) 63 cmx
(2002) 4] 321983085329
Z ur
Zirkulation der
Muumlnzen Kassanders 331 341
Goldene
Alexander zum Geschenk
343 359
Le
monnayage de Geacuteta
Auguste au nom du
Koinon Kupr iocircn 361 365
Domitian and the
coins
of the Dardanian mines
367 375
Der
Kaiser als
Gruumlnder Der titel
ΚΤΙ ΣΤΗΣ
auf
griechischen
Muumlnzen
der Roumlmischen Kaiserzeit 377 383
Ein Schatzfund von Praumlgungen Neros der Praumlgestaumltte Thessaloniki
im Bereich Serres (Ostmakedonien 2003) 385 393
Monnaies de Naxos (Cyclades)
d eacutepoque
impeacuteriale romaine 395 405
Νοmicroίσmicroατα του
αυτοκράτορα Βεσπασιανού
που κόπηκαν για την Κύπρο
στ ο
Νοmicroισmicroατικό
Μουσείο
Αθηνών
407983085411
T he metrology
of
th e coinage
of
Amphipolis
in imperial times ^13983085^21
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ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ
Χαρίκλεια ΠΑΠΑΓΕΩΡΓΙΑ∆ΟΥ983085ΜΠΑΝΗ
Γιάννης ΣΤΟΓΙΑΣ
Julian BAKER Mina GALANI983085KRIKOU
Luigi BESCHI
Orestes Η ZERVOS
Ernest
OBERLAumlNDER TARNOVEANU
Βάσω ΠΕΝΝΑ
Αικατ ΤΣΑΝΑΝΑ Κλεάνθης ∆ΟΥΚΑΣ
Π α ν α γ ι ώ τ ης Κ ΟΚ Κ Α Σ
Α νδ ρέα ς Μ Α Ζ Α Ρ Α Κ ΗΣ
∆έσποινα ΕΥΓΕΝΙ∆ΟΥ
Νοmicroίσmicroατα
της συλλογής
J ριανταφυλλίδη στ ο
Νοmicroισmicroατικό Μουσείο
429
Σπάνια ψευδοαυτόνοmicroη κοπή αυτοκρατορικών χρόνων
τ ο υ
Κοινού των Θεσσαλών 447
Further considerations on the numismatics of Catalan Greece
in the light of
t he
Athens Roman
Agora
(Lytsika) 1891 hoards ^51
Giovanni
VlIIPaleologo
diPisanello
nel museo numismatico
di
Atene
47
A new variant of the
copper
tetarteron with
jeweled
cross ofAlexius I Comnenus 4
T he imitative gold
coinage
of Byzantine type from the late 12th
and the early 13th century
491
laquoΘησαυρόςraquoΠάρου1999 επανεξέταση των laquoπιστών αποmicroιmicroήσεων raquo
507
Βυζαντινά
νοmicroίσmicroατα από τη Βρύα της Χαλκιδικής
517
Ο
θησαυρός Οθωmicroανικών άσπρων
laquoΜαντέmicro
Αάκκος Στράτων ίου Χαλκιδικής 1938raquo
541
Ο
θησαυρός απότοΡάϊκος Κουρεντίων Ηπείρου
555
∆υ ο microεταλλικά
κύπελλα
του Ιωάννη Αριστάρχη
569
ΣΦ Ρ ΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ
Ιωάννα ΚΟΛΤΣΙ∆Α983085ΜΑΚΡΗ
Γιόρκα
ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ
579
Μολυβδόβουλλα Συλλογής Ναούmicro
581
laquoΤο θαύmicroα των βασιλέων και η δίκη του Σεκρέτουraquo microια microοναδική
αυτοκρατορική βούλλα από τις συλλογές του Νοmicroισmicroατικού
Μουσείου 593
ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΜΕΝΑ
605
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Β
ΕΠΙΓΡ ΦΙΚΗ
Γ ι ώ ρ γ ο ς ∆ Ε Σ Π Ι Ν Η Σ
Χ ρ υ σ ο ύ λ α
ΣΑΑΤΣΟΓΛΟΥ983085ΠΑΛΙΑ∆ΕΛΗ
Μ α ρί α ΛΙ ΛΙ ΜΠΑΚΗ983085ΑΚΑΜΑΤ Η
Ε micromicroα ν ο υ ή λ ΒΟΥΤΥΡΑΣ
Μ Β HATZOPOULOS
Βάσα Κ ΟΝΤΟΡΙΝΗ
Λ ί ν α Γ Μ Ε Ν ∆ Ω Ν Η
Constantinos LAGOS
Κ ων στ α ν τ ί ν ο ς Τ Σ Α Κ Ο Σ
Denis KNOEPFLER
Ηλίας
Σ Β Ε Ρ Κ Ο Σ
Α microα λ ί α
ΚΑΡΑΠΑΣΧΑΛΙ∆ΟΥ
Γ Α ΣΟΥΡΗΣ
Γ ι ώ ρ γ ο ς Β Ε Λ Ε Ν Η Σ
Αγ γ ελ ι κ ή Σ Τ Ρ Α Τ Η
Παντελής Μ ΝΙΓ∆ΕΛΗΣ
Ιωάννης
ΒΟΑ ΑΝ ΑΚΗ Σ
Ο δίσκος του εθνικού microουσείου αριθ 93
laquomicroνέmicroα τόδαίνέο σοφίας ιατρό
άριστοraquo
Ενεπίγραφο
απότmicroηmicroα από την περιοχή του
θεάτρου
των Αιγών
Εθνικά
ονόmicroατα σε επιγραφές της Πέλλας
Παρατηρήσεις
σε δύο επιγράmicromicroατα από τη Βέροια
Some new documents from the Macedonian chancery
Problems of form and content
Άγνωστα laquoφαντάσmicroαταraquo
σε γνωστές
επιγραφές
από τη
Ρόδο
Τιmicroητικό ψήφισmicroα από την Καρθaia
Athena Itonia at
Amorgos
A new interpretation of the Evidence
Η Φίλα και η Σάmicroος προβληmicroατισmicroοί γύρω από ένα βωmicroό
Su r le nom dun citoyen d Akanthos
enleveacute par
le s
pirates (Polyen VI54)
Μ ια επιτάφια ενεπίγραφη στήλη από την Ορεστίδα
Αίθινη ενεπίγραφη στήλη από τη Χαλκίδα983085Πεδίο βολής
Επικλήσεις στην Τύχη των αυτοκρατόρων
σε επιγραφές από τη Μακεδονία
Η
επιγραφή του Θύρσου στην
Τεγέα
Η επιτύmicroβια επιγραφή του Αθανασίου Μασγίδα
στ η microονή Τιmicroίου Προδρόmicroου Σερρών Σχόλια και παρατηρήσεις
Ο Νέστωρ ο Αυαίος και τα Πύθια Ο βίος του Αγίου ∆ηmicroητρίου
υπ ό το φως νέων επιγραφικών ευρηmicroάτων
Ανέκδοτες επιγραφές και χαράγmicroατα από ναούς και microονές
το υ νοmicroού Ηρακλείου Κρήτης
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ΡΧ ΙΟΛ ΟΓΙ
ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΠΑ
Σ τ έ λ λ α ∆ΡΟΥΓΟΥ
Κ ΣΟΥΕΡΕΦ
Εικόνες και σύmicroβολα
περί
των Αιγών
Η εποχή των Αντιπατριδών και οι laquoΜακεδόνικοι Τάφοιraquo
τη ς Θεσσαλονίκειας και Κασσανδρειωτικής χώρας
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ΑΝΑΣΚΑΦΙΚΑ
Ιωάννης Μ ΑΚΑΜΑΤΗΣ
Αγγελική ΚΟΤΤΑΡΙ∆Η
Λιάνα
ΠΑΡΛΑΜΑ
Στ έφ η ΚΟΡΤΗ983085ΚΟΝΤΗ
Μαρία
ΤΣΙΜΠΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΑΥΛΩΝΙΤΗ
Αναστασία ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
∆έσποινα ΖΕΡΝΙΩΤΗ
191
Προϊστορική Πέλλα Νεκροταφείο εποχής Χαλκού 193
Η
ορεινή Ηmicroαθία στην πρώιmicroη εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος983085 7ος αι
π Χ)
215
Παλαmicroάρι
Σκύρου η ανασκαφή της οχύρωσης 20009830852007 227
Ιωνικά
ευρήmicroατα στον αρχαϊκό Θερmicroαϊκό
243
Φοίνικας 2005 Η microαρτυρία του κιβωτιόσχηmicroου τάφου 4 251
Ταφικό σύνολο από το ∆υτικό Νεκροταφείο του Αρχοντικού Πέλλας 271
Ταφικό
συγκρότηmicroα από τη ρωmicroαϊκή πόλη της Κασσιόπης 279
ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Emanuele GRECO
Paolo VITTI
Antonio CORSO
Massimo VITTI
Nota sul santuario di
Apollo
Pizio
ad
Atene
Η αρχιτεκτονική του Φάρου της Αλεξάνδρειας
A few thoughts on the Tower of the Winds in Athens
Η
Αγορά του Καίσαρα και ο Ναός της Αφροδίτης στη Ρώmicroη
Σχόλιο και ενηmicroέρωση
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ΓΛΥΠΤΙΚΗ
Άλκηστις Χ ΩΡ Ε Μ Η983085 ΣΠ Ε Τ ΣΙΕ Ρ Η
Νικόλαος
ΚΑΛΤΣΑΣ
Βάσω ΜΙΣΑΗΛΙ∆ΟΥ983085∆ΕΣΠΟΤΙ∆ΟΥ
Βικτώρια ΑΛΛΑΜΑΝΗ983085ΣΟΥΡΗ
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8172019 On the lsquoSkione 1991rsquo hoard [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis Tselekas
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321
NOMItradeMATIKH
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis TSELEKAS
SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
322
NOMItradeMATIKH
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
323
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
324
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 5 mdash
mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
325
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 8 mdash mdash 9 mdash
mdash 10 mdash mdash 11 mdash
mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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Nati onal
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Eos Tsourti
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T he
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Relationships
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Basic coin types in Thrace
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ορεινή Ηmicroαθία στην πρώιmicroη εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος983085 7ος αι
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243
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Ταφικό
συγκρότηmicroα από τη ρωmicroαϊκή πόλη της Κασσιόπης 279
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Emanuele GRECO
Paolo VITTI
Antonio CORSO
Massimo VITTI
Nota sul santuario di
Apollo
Pizio
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Atene
Η αρχιτεκτονική του Φάρου της Αλεξάνδρειας
A few thoughts on the Tower of the Winds in Athens
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Αγορά του Καίσαρα και ο Ναός της Αφροδίτης στη Ρώmicroη
Σχόλιο και ενηmicroέρωση
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Κεφάλι
γενειοφόρου άνδρα από επιτύmicroβιο microνηmicroείο
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εφυαλωmicroένης κεραmicroικής από τη Θεσσαλονίκη
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Ρ ΙΖ Α Κ ΗΣ
Zlaozara GOCHEVA
Απόλλων Κωmicroαίος στους Φίλιππους
Αργολικές λατρείες στην Αχαΐα
Η θρησκεία ως microέσον πολιτικής επιρροής και αναζήτησης ταυτότητας
T he Thracian Horseman s cult on the
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321
NOMItradeMATIKH
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis TSELEKAS
SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
322
NOMItradeMATIKH
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
323
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
324
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 5 mdash
mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
325
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 8 mdash mdash 9 mdash
mdash 10 mdash mdash 11 mdash
mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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Thessalonike
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N u m i s m a t i c M u s e u m A t h e n s
Charalampos
Kritzas
Archaeologist
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of the
Epi g r aphi ca l Muse um A the ns
Nikolaos
altsas
Director
of the
Nati onal
Archae olog ica l
M u s e u m A t h e n s
Vasso Penna
Assistant
Professor
of Byzant i ne H i s tor y and Numi smati cs
University
of
Peacuteloponnegravese
Eos Tsourti
Numismatist
Mina Galani Krikou
Numismatist
Efterpi Ralli
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Ινώ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ
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Relationships
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219983085225
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το νεκροταφείο της αρχαίας Γαζώρου (CHIX 18)
227983085233
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235983085245
Basic coin types in Thrace
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Ο δίσκος του εθνικού microουσείου αριθ 93
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άριστοraquo
Ενεπίγραφο
απότmicroηmicroα από την περιοχή του
θεάτρου
των Αιγών
Εθνικά
ονόmicroατα σε επιγραφές της Πέλλας
Παρατηρήσεις
σε δύο επιγράmicromicroατα από τη Βέροια
Some new documents from the Macedonian chancery
Problems of form and content
Άγνωστα laquoφαντάσmicroαταraquo
σε γνωστές
επιγραφές
από τη
Ρόδο
Τιmicroητικό ψήφισmicroα από την Καρθaia
Athena Itonia at
Amorgos
A new interpretation of the Evidence
Η Φίλα και η Σάmicroος προβληmicroατισmicroοί γύρω από ένα βωmicroό
Su r le nom dun citoyen d Akanthos
enleveacute par
le s
pirates (Polyen VI54)
Μ ια επιτάφια ενεπίγραφη στήλη από την Ορεστίδα
Αίθινη ενεπίγραφη στήλη από τη Χαλκίδα983085Πεδίο βολής
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σε επιγραφές από τη Μακεδονία
Η
επιγραφή του Θύρσου στην
Τεγέα
Η επιτύmicroβια επιγραφή του Αθανασίου Μασγίδα
στ η microονή Τιmicroίου Προδρόmicroου Σερρών Σχόλια και παρατηρήσεις
Ο Νέστωρ ο Αυαίος και τα Πύθια Ο βίος του Αγίου ∆ηmicroητρίου
υπ ό το φως νέων επιγραφικών ευρηmicroάτων
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ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΠΑ
Σ τ έ λ λ α ∆ΡΟΥΓΟΥ
Κ ΣΟΥΕΡΕΦ
Εικόνες και σύmicroβολα
περί
των Αιγών
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ΑΝΑΣΚΑΦΙΚΑ
Ιωάννης Μ ΑΚΑΜΑΤΗΣ
Αγγελική ΚΟΤΤΑΡΙ∆Η
Λιάνα
ΠΑΡΛΑΜΑ
Στ έφ η ΚΟΡΤΗ983085ΚΟΝΤΗ
Μαρία
ΤΣΙΜΠΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΑΥΛΩΝΙΤΗ
Αναστασία ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
∆έσποινα ΖΕΡΝΙΩΤΗ
191
Προϊστορική Πέλλα Νεκροταφείο εποχής Χαλκού 193
Η
ορεινή Ηmicroαθία στην πρώιmicroη εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος983085 7ος αι
π Χ)
215
Παλαmicroάρι
Σκύρου η ανασκαφή της οχύρωσης 20009830852007 227
Ιωνικά
ευρήmicroατα στον αρχαϊκό Θερmicroαϊκό
243
Φοίνικας 2005 Η microαρτυρία του κιβωτιόσχηmicroου τάφου 4 251
Ταφικό σύνολο από το ∆υτικό Νεκροταφείο του Αρχοντικού Πέλλας 271
Ταφικό
συγκρότηmicroα από τη ρωmicroαϊκή πόλη της Κασσιόπης 279
ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Emanuele GRECO
Paolo VITTI
Antonio CORSO
Massimo VITTI
Nota sul santuario di
Apollo
Pizio
ad
Atene
Η αρχιτεκτονική του Φάρου της Αλεξάνδρειας
A few thoughts on the Tower of the Winds in Athens
Η
Αγορά του Καίσαρα και ο Ναός της Αφροδίτης στη Ρώmicroη
Σχόλιο και ενηmicroέρωση
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299983085
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ΓΛΥΠΤΙΚΗ
Άλκηστις Χ ΩΡ Ε Μ Η983085 ΣΠ Ε Τ ΣΙΕ Ρ Η
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ΚΑΛΤΣΑΣ
Βάσω ΜΙΣΑΗΛΙ∆ΟΥ983085∆ΕΣΠΟΤΙ∆ΟΥ
Βικτώρια ΑΛΛΑΜΑΝΗ983085ΣΟΥΡΗ
Κεφάλι
γενειοφόρου άνδρα από επιτύmicroβιο microνηmicroείο
Κεφαλή
Οmicroήρου στο Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο
Μ ια
επιτύmicroβια στήλη από την περιοχή της Θεσσαλονίκης
Η στήλη microιας άγνωστης κόρης από τη Βέροια
∆έσποινα
ΠΑΠΑΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ983085∆ΙΑΜΑΝΤΟΥΡΟΥ
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Θεοδ οσία ΣΤΕΦΑΝΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ
Εντοιχισmicroένα
ταφικά
ανάγλυφα στη Θεσαλονίκη
Πρώτες
παρατηρήσεις
Valentina GRIGOROVA983085GENTCHEVA An inedited Imperial tatuefrom Bulgaria
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359
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BARR983085SHARRAR
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κάνθαροι των υστεροαρχαϊκών χρόνων από τη Μακεδονία
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εφυαλωmicroένης κεραmicroικής από τη Θεσσαλονίκη
415
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427
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της
Πεπαρήθου
Χάιδω ΚΟΥΚΟΥΛΗ983085ΧΡΥΣΑΝΘΑΚΗ
Α
∆
Ρ ΙΖ Α Κ ΗΣ
Zlaozara GOCHEVA
Απόλλων Κωmicroαίος στους Φίλιππους
Αργολικές λατρείες στην Αχαΐα
Η θρησκεία ως microέσον πολιτικής επιρροής και αναζήτησης ταυτότητας
T he Thracian Horseman s cult on the
territory
of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [FYROM]
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Μ α ρί α
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Χ α ρ ά λ α micro π ο ς
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∆έσποινα ΙΓΝΑΤΙΑ∆ΟΥ
Πολυξένη Α∆ΑΜ983085ΒΕΛΕΝΗ
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Μεταλλικά
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απ ό
την αρχαία Αητή
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Παιονική ασπίδα στην Ορεστίδα της Άνω Μακεδονίας 579983085589
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χάντρα στα Αείβηθρα 591983085599
Οστέινο εισιτήριο από την Αγορά Θεσσαλονίκης 601 983085605
VARIA
Νίκος ΜΙΝΩΣ
Π έ τ ρ ο ς
Θ Ε Μ Ε Λ Η Σ
Οι εργασίες συντήρησης στο
Ιλίου
Μέλαθρον
Αθανάσιος και Κωνσταντίνος ∆ηmicroητριάδης
Επίτροποι των ανασκαφών Ολυmicroπίας
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321
NOMItradeMATIKH
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis TSELEKAS
SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
322
NOMItradeMATIKH
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
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NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
324
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 5 mdash
mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
325
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 8 mdash mdash 9 mdash
mdash 10 mdash mdash 11 mdash
mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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N u m i s m a t i c M u s e u m A t h e n s
Charalampos
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Archaeologist
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of the
Epi g r aphi ca l Muse um A the ns
Nikolaos
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of the
Nati onal
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M u s e u m A t h e n s
Vasso Penna
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Professor
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Peacuteloponnegravese
Eos Tsourti
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An addition to
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monnayage de Geacuteta
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T he imitative gold
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∆υ ο microεταλλικά
κύπελλα
του Ιωάννη Αριστάρχη
569
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Ιωάννα ΚΟΛΤΣΙ∆Α983085ΜΑΚΡΗ
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ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ
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αυτοκρατορική βούλλα από τις συλλογές του Νοmicroισmicroατικού
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ΕΠΙΓΡ ΦΙΚΗ
Γ ι ώ ρ γ ο ς ∆ Ε Σ Π Ι Ν Η Σ
Χ ρ υ σ ο ύ λ α
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Μ α ρί α ΛΙ ΛΙ ΜΠΑΚΗ983085ΑΚΑΜΑΤ Η
Ε micromicroα ν ο υ ή λ ΒΟΥΤΥΡΑΣ
Μ Β HATZOPOULOS
Βάσα Κ ΟΝΤΟΡΙΝΗ
Λ ί ν α Γ Μ Ε Ν ∆ Ω Ν Η
Constantinos LAGOS
Κ ων στ α ν τ ί ν ο ς Τ Σ Α Κ Ο Σ
Denis KNOEPFLER
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Α microα λ ί α
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Γ ι ώ ρ γ ο ς Β Ε Λ Ε Ν Η Σ
Αγ γ ελ ι κ ή Σ Τ Ρ Α Τ Η
Παντελής Μ ΝΙΓ∆ΕΛΗΣ
Ιωάννης
ΒΟΑ ΑΝ ΑΚΗ Σ
Ο δίσκος του εθνικού microουσείου αριθ 93
laquomicroνέmicroα τόδαίνέο σοφίας ιατρό
άριστοraquo
Ενεπίγραφο
απότmicroηmicroα από την περιοχή του
θεάτρου
των Αιγών
Εθνικά
ονόmicroατα σε επιγραφές της Πέλλας
Παρατηρήσεις
σε δύο επιγράmicromicroατα από τη Βέροια
Some new documents from the Macedonian chancery
Problems of form and content
Άγνωστα laquoφαντάσmicroαταraquo
σε γνωστές
επιγραφές
από τη
Ρόδο
Τιmicroητικό ψήφισmicroα από την Καρθaia
Athena Itonia at
Amorgos
A new interpretation of the Evidence
Η Φίλα και η Σάmicroος προβληmicroατισmicroοί γύρω από ένα βωmicroό
Su r le nom dun citoyen d Akanthos
enleveacute par
le s
pirates (Polyen VI54)
Μ ια επιτάφια ενεπίγραφη στήλη από την Ορεστίδα
Αίθινη ενεπίγραφη στήλη από τη Χαλκίδα983085Πεδίο βολής
Επικλήσεις στην Τύχη των αυτοκρατόρων
σε επιγραφές από τη Μακεδονία
Η
επιγραφή του Θύρσου στην
Τεγέα
Η επιτύmicroβια επιγραφή του Αθανασίου Μασγίδα
στ η microονή Τιmicroίου Προδρόmicroου Σερρών Σχόλια και παρατηρήσεις
Ο Νέστωρ ο Αυαίος και τα Πύθια Ο βίος του Αγίου ∆ηmicroητρίου
υπ ό το φως νέων επιγραφικών ευρηmicroάτων
Ανέκδοτες επιγραφές και χαράγmicroατα από ναούς και microονές
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ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΠΑ
Σ τ έ λ λ α ∆ΡΟΥΓΟΥ
Κ ΣΟΥΕΡΕΦ
Εικόνες και σύmicroβολα
περί
των Αιγών
Η εποχή των Αντιπατριδών και οι laquoΜακεδόνικοι Τάφοιraquo
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ΑΝΑΣΚΑΦΙΚΑ
Ιωάννης Μ ΑΚΑΜΑΤΗΣ
Αγγελική ΚΟΤΤΑΡΙ∆Η
Λιάνα
ΠΑΡΛΑΜΑ
Στ έφ η ΚΟΡΤΗ983085ΚΟΝΤΗ
Μαρία
ΤΣΙΜΠΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΑΥΛΩΝΙΤΗ
Αναστασία ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
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191
Προϊστορική Πέλλα Νεκροταφείο εποχής Χαλκού 193
Η
ορεινή Ηmicroαθία στην πρώιmicroη εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος983085 7ος αι
π Χ)
215
Παλαmicroάρι
Σκύρου η ανασκαφή της οχύρωσης 20009830852007 227
Ιωνικά
ευρήmicroατα στον αρχαϊκό Θερmicroαϊκό
243
Φοίνικας 2005 Η microαρτυρία του κιβωτιόσχηmicroου τάφου 4 251
Ταφικό σύνολο από το ∆υτικό Νεκροταφείο του Αρχοντικού Πέλλας 271
Ταφικό
συγκρότηmicroα από τη ρωmicroαϊκή πόλη της Κασσιόπης 279
ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Emanuele GRECO
Paolo VITTI
Antonio CORSO
Massimo VITTI
Nota sul santuario di
Apollo
Pizio
ad
Atene
Η αρχιτεκτονική του Φάρου της Αλεξάνδρειας
A few thoughts on the Tower of the Winds in Athens
Η
Αγορά του Καίσαρα και ο Ναός της Αφροδίτης στη Ρώmicroη
Σχόλιο και ενηmicroέρωση
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299983085
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ΓΛΥΠΤΙΚΗ
Άλκηστις Χ ΩΡ Ε Μ Η983085 ΣΠ Ε Τ ΣΙΕ Ρ Η
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ΚΑΛΤΣΑΣ
Βάσω ΜΙΣΑΗΛΙ∆ΟΥ983085∆ΕΣΠΟΤΙ∆ΟΥ
Βικτώρια ΑΛΛΑΜΑΝΗ983085ΣΟΥΡΗ
Κεφάλι
γενειοφόρου άνδρα από επιτύmicroβιο microνηmicroείο
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επιτύmicroβια στήλη από την περιοχή της Θεσσαλονίκης
Η στήλη microιας άγνωστης κόρης από τη Βέροια
∆έσποινα
ΠΑΠΑΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ983085∆ΙΑΜΑΝΤΟΥΡΟΥ
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Θεοδ οσία ΣΤΕΦΑΝΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ
Εντοιχισmicroένα
ταφικά
ανάγλυφα στη Θεσαλονίκη
Πρώτες
παρατηρήσεις
Valentina GRIGOROVA983085GENTCHEVA An inedited Imperial tatuefrom Bulgaria
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359
369
379
387
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Παύλος ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
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Beryl
BARR983085SHARRAR
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EM I Τ Η Σ
∆ΟΑΙΟraquo ∆ύο ενεπίγραφοι
κάνθαροι των υστεροαρχαϊκών χρόνων από τη Μακεδονία
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laquoΠολύτιmicroαraquo εργαστηριακά απορρίmicromicroατα
εφυαλωmicroένης κεραmicroικής από τη Θεσσαλονίκη
415
417
427
441
451
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Αύκειος Απόλλων
της
Πεπαρήθου
Χάιδω ΚΟΥΚΟΥΛΗ983085ΧΡΥΣΑΝΘΑΚΗ
Α
∆
Ρ ΙΖ Α Κ ΗΣ
Zlaozara GOCHEVA
Απόλλων Κωmicroαίος στους Φίλιππους
Αργολικές λατρείες στην Αχαΐα
Η θρησκεία ως microέσον πολιτικής επιρροής και αναζήτησης ταυτότητας
T he Thracian Horseman s cult on the
territory
of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [FYROM]
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Μ α ρί α
ΠΑΠΠΑ
Ε λ ι σά β ε τ 983085Μ π ε τ τ ί ν α
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Κ α τ ε ρ ί ν α ΤΖΑΝΑΒΑΡΗ
Φωτ ε ι ν ή
ΖΑΦΕΙΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ
Χ α ρ ά λ α micro π ο ς
ΤΣΟΥΓΓΑΡΗΣ
∆έσποινα ΙΓΝΑΤΙΑ∆ΟΥ
Πολυξένη Α∆ΑΜ983085ΒΕΛΕΝΗ
531983085605
Νεολιθικός οικισmicroός Μακρύγιαλου Πιερίας
Αντικείmicroενα
από spondylus gaederopus 533983085545
Τύποι
χρυσών ενωτίων της όψιmicroης κλασικής και της ελληνιστικής εποχής
απ ό τη βόρεια Πιερία 547983085559
Μεταλλικά
περίαπτα σε σχήmicroα κεφαλής Αφροδίτης
απ ό
την αρχαία Αητή
561983085571
Χάλκινο δακτυλίδι απ ό Αιτωλικό Νεκροταφείο 573983085577
Παιονική ασπίδα στην Ορεστίδα της Άνω Μακεδονίας 579983085589
Θιβετιανή
χάντρα στα Αείβηθρα 591983085599
Οστέινο εισιτήριο από την Αγορά Θεσσαλονίκης 601 983085605
VARIA
Νίκος ΜΙΝΩΣ
Π έ τ ρ ο ς
Θ Ε Μ Ε Λ Η Σ
Οι εργασίες συντήρησης στο
Ιλίου
Μέλαθρον
Αθανάσιος και Κωνσταντίνος ∆ηmicroητριάδης
Επίτροποι των ανασκαφών Ολυmicroπίας
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609983085617
619983085631
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321
NOMItradeMATIKH
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis TSELEKAS
SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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NOMItradeMATIKH
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
324
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 5 mdash
mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
325
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 8 mdash mdash 9 mdash
mdash 10 mdash mdash 11 mdash
mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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Εργογραψία
Εισαγωγή
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ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΤΟΥΡΑΤΣΟΓΛΟΥ ό αρχαιολόγος
ΝΟΜΙΣΜ ΤΙΚΗ
Χ α ρ ά λ α micro π ο ς Β Κ Ρ Ι Τ Ζ Α Σ
Andrew MEADOWS
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Γ Α ΠΙΚΟΥΛΑΣ
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Έ λ ε ν α
ΒΛΑΧΟΓΙΑΝΝΗ
Ε υ α γ γ ε λ ί α
ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ
Maria CACCAMO
CALTABIANO
F
DE CALLATAY a nd
R KA N
Wolfgang FISCHER983085BOSSERT
Nina
FROLOVA
Christos
GATZOLIS
Selene PSOMA
Dominique
GERIN
Giovanni
GORINI
Στ έλ λ α
KATAKOYTA
Οβολοί ργολικοί
Money in an ideal world
Plato
s Laws and the dual
nature
of
Coinage
Le deacutecret amphictionique sur le teacutetradrachme steacutephaneacutephore et les technites
Εν α
νόmicroισmicroα και κάποιες ιστορίες
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τεχνοτροπίας
raquoνοmicroίσmicroατα
κα ι
οι σχέσεις
τους
microε
τους
παναθηναϊκούς αmicroφορείς
laquoΘησαυρόςraquo νοmicroισmicroάτων σε κλειστό
ταφικό
σύνολο
απ ό το βόρειο983085ανατολικό νεκροταφείο της Θήβας
ΣκάρφηπόλιςΑοκρίδος
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head
of a Silenus o n
theAitna
tetradrachm
A new silver
denomination
of Lysimachus
a unique hemidrachm
(from
Mytilene) with Athena
Parthenos
on the
reverse
Goldene Charonsgroschen
Caucasian imitations
of Alexander a nd Lysimachus
Golden
Stater
More
on t he Bottiaeans of Thrace
Sphinges perdues
et
retrouveacutees
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dans
la
Collection Chandon
de
Briailles
A parcel of a 4th century Athenian Tetradrachms Hoard
laquoΘησαυρός raquoαργυρών νοmicroισmicroάτων από την
αρχαία
Φάρσαλο
7
9
109
117
127
13
14
153
159
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ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ
Koray KONUK
Θεόδωρος ΚΟΥΡΕΜΠΑΝΑΣ
Sophia KREMYDI983085SICILIANOU
John Η
KROLL
Ά δ ω ν ι ς Κ ΚΥ Ρ Ο Υ
Metodi MANOV
Βασίλης ΠΟΥΛΙΟΣ
Ε υ τέ ρ πη ΡΑΛΛΗ
Ilya PROKOPOV
Hans983085Dietrich
SCHULTZ
Kenneth SHEEDY
Vassiliki
E STEFANAKI
Stavri TOPALOV
∆ ή microητρ α Τ Σ ΑΓ ΚΑΡ Η983085Σ Τ Ε Φ ΑΝ Η
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Panagiotis TSELEKAS
Chrysanthos
VALASSIADIS
Bernha rd WEISSER Karsten DAHMEN
Michel AMANDRY
Slobodan DUaumlANIC
Wolfgang LESCHHORN
Katerini LIAMPI
Heacutelegravene NICOLET PIERRE
Ινώ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ
Cleopatra PAPAEVANGELOU983085GENAKOS
Kasolaumlba A new mint in
Karia 177 183
Αδηmicroοσίευτες επικοπές στα ελληνιστικά νοmicroίσmicroατα Θεσσαλονίκης
Αmicroφίπολης
και
Πέλλας
185983085190
T he
Tauropolos tetradrachms of the
first
Macedonian Mens
Provenance Iconography and dating
191983085201
An addition to
th e
Eleusinian
Triptolemospiglet coinage 203983085205
Η
τελευταία
Ερmicroιονική
φρουρά
στη νήσο
Τδρέα 207983085217
Relationships
between
two Scythian kings in
Dobroudja
and
some macedonian
hellenistic kings evidenced by
epigraphical
and numismatic data
219983085225
laquoΘησαυρόςraquoαργυρών νοmicroισmicroάτων Αmicroφίπολης και Θάσου
από
το νεκροταφείο της αρχαίας Γαζώρου (CHIX 18)
227983085233
Θησαυρός microολύβδινων συmicroβόλων από το Κορωπί Αττικής
235983085245
Basic coin types in Thrace
recorded
quantities and their participation
in the
coin circulation
during
the
2nd983085lst centuries BC
247983085253
Samische Phylen
255983085261
Ios
and Syros Studies in
th e
hellenistic coinages
of the Cyclades
263983085269
Le
monnayage
de
bronze
de
Viannos et
de
Malia
en
Cregravete orientale 271 283
A bronze coin of the type of Alexander III re-minted with stamps
of the coin type ofPhilip II 285 291
Έ να
microοναδικό τετράδραχmicroο τηςΑιτωλικής Συmicroπολιτείας 293983085297
Η
συλλογή Θεοδώρας
Αυγέρη 299983085319
On the Skione 19901 hoard [GB
VIII
(1994) 63 cmx
(2002) 4] 321983085329
Z ur
Zirkulation der
Muumlnzen Kassanders 331 341
Goldene
Alexander zum Geschenk
343 359
Le
monnayage de Geacuteta
Auguste au nom du
Koinon Kupr iocircn 361 365
Domitian and the
coins
of the Dardanian mines
367 375
Der
Kaiser als
Gruumlnder Der titel
ΚΤΙ ΣΤΗΣ
auf
griechischen
Muumlnzen
der Roumlmischen Kaiserzeit 377 383
Ein Schatzfund von Praumlgungen Neros der Praumlgestaumltte Thessaloniki
im Bereich Serres (Ostmakedonien 2003) 385 393
Monnaies de Naxos (Cyclades)
d eacutepoque
impeacuteriale romaine 395 405
Νοmicroίσmicroατα του
αυτοκράτορα Βεσπασιανού
που κόπηκαν για την Κύπρο
στ ο
Νοmicroισmicroατικό
Μουσείο
Αθηνών
407983085411
T he metrology
of
th e coinage
of
Amphipolis
in imperial times ^13983085^21
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ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ
Χαρίκλεια ΠΑΠΑΓΕΩΡΓΙΑ∆ΟΥ983085ΜΠΑΝΗ
Γιάννης ΣΤΟΓΙΑΣ
Julian BAKER Mina GALANI983085KRIKOU
Luigi BESCHI
Orestes Η ZERVOS
Ernest
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της συλλογής
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Σπάνια ψευδοαυτόνοmicroη κοπή αυτοκρατορικών χρόνων
τ ο υ
Κοινού των Θεσσαλών 447
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in the light of
t he
Athens Roman
Agora
(Lytsika) 1891 hoards ^51
Giovanni
VlIIPaleologo
diPisanello
nel museo numismatico
di
Atene
47
A new variant of the
copper
tetarteron with
jeweled
cross ofAlexius I Comnenus 4
T he imitative gold
coinage
of Byzantine type from the late 12th
and the early 13th century
491
laquoΘησαυρόςraquoΠάρου1999 επανεξέταση των laquoπιστών αποmicroιmicroήσεων raquo
507
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Αάκκος Στράτων ίου Χαλκιδικής 1938raquo
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του Ιωάννη Αριστάρχη
569
ΣΦ Ρ ΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ
Ιωάννα ΚΟΛΤΣΙ∆Α983085ΜΑΚΡΗ
Γιόρκα
ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ
579
Μολυβδόβουλλα Συλλογής Ναούmicro
581
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αυτοκρατορική βούλλα από τις συλλογές του Νοmicroισmicroατικού
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ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΜΕΝΑ
605
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Β
ΕΠΙΓΡ ΦΙΚΗ
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Χ ρ υ σ ο ύ λ α
ΣΑΑΤΣΟΓΛΟΥ983085ΠΑΛΙΑ∆ΕΛΗ
Μ α ρί α ΛΙ ΛΙ ΜΠΑΚΗ983085ΑΚΑΜΑΤ Η
Ε micromicroα ν ο υ ή λ ΒΟΥΤΥΡΑΣ
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Βάσα Κ ΟΝΤΟΡΙΝΗ
Λ ί ν α Γ Μ Ε Ν ∆ Ω Ν Η
Constantinos LAGOS
Κ ων στ α ν τ ί ν ο ς Τ Σ Α Κ Ο Σ
Denis KNOEPFLER
Ηλίας
Σ Β Ε Ρ Κ Ο Σ
Α microα λ ί α
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Γ ι ώ ρ γ ο ς Β Ε Λ Ε Ν Η Σ
Αγ γ ελ ι κ ή Σ Τ Ρ Α Τ Η
Παντελής Μ ΝΙΓ∆ΕΛΗΣ
Ιωάννης
ΒΟΑ ΑΝ ΑΚΗ Σ
Ο δίσκος του εθνικού microουσείου αριθ 93
laquomicroνέmicroα τόδαίνέο σοφίας ιατρό
άριστοraquo
Ενεπίγραφο
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θεάτρου
των Αιγών
Εθνικά
ονόmicroατα σε επιγραφές της Πέλλας
Παρατηρήσεις
σε δύο επιγράmicromicroατα από τη Βέροια
Some new documents from the Macedonian chancery
Problems of form and content
Άγνωστα laquoφαντάσmicroαταraquo
σε γνωστές
επιγραφές
από τη
Ρόδο
Τιmicroητικό ψήφισmicroα από την Καρθaia
Athena Itonia at
Amorgos
A new interpretation of the Evidence
Η Φίλα και η Σάmicroος προβληmicroατισmicroοί γύρω από ένα βωmicroό
Su r le nom dun citoyen d Akanthos
enleveacute par
le s
pirates (Polyen VI54)
Μ ια επιτάφια ενεπίγραφη στήλη από την Ορεστίδα
Αίθινη ενεπίγραφη στήλη από τη Χαλκίδα983085Πεδίο βολής
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σε επιγραφές από τη Μακεδονία
Η
επιγραφή του Θύρσου στην
Τεγέα
Η επιτύmicroβια επιγραφή του Αθανασίου Μασγίδα
στ η microονή Τιmicroίου Προδρόmicroου Σερρών Σχόλια και παρατηρήσεις
Ο Νέστωρ ο Αυαίος και τα Πύθια Ο βίος του Αγίου ∆ηmicroητρίου
υπ ό το φως νέων επιγραφικών ευρηmicroάτων
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ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΠΑ
Σ τ έ λ λ α ∆ΡΟΥΓΟΥ
Κ ΣΟΥΕΡΕΦ
Εικόνες και σύmicroβολα
περί
των Αιγών
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ΑΝΑΣΚΑΦΙΚΑ
Ιωάννης Μ ΑΚΑΜΑΤΗΣ
Αγγελική ΚΟΤΤΑΡΙ∆Η
Λιάνα
ΠΑΡΛΑΜΑ
Στ έφ η ΚΟΡΤΗ983085ΚΟΝΤΗ
Μαρία
ΤΣΙΜΠΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΑΥΛΩΝΙΤΗ
Αναστασία ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
∆έσποινα ΖΕΡΝΙΩΤΗ
191
Προϊστορική Πέλλα Νεκροταφείο εποχής Χαλκού 193
Η
ορεινή Ηmicroαθία στην πρώιmicroη εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος983085 7ος αι
π Χ)
215
Παλαmicroάρι
Σκύρου η ανασκαφή της οχύρωσης 20009830852007 227
Ιωνικά
ευρήmicroατα στον αρχαϊκό Θερmicroαϊκό
243
Φοίνικας 2005 Η microαρτυρία του κιβωτιόσχηmicroου τάφου 4 251
Ταφικό σύνολο από το ∆υτικό Νεκροταφείο του Αρχοντικού Πέλλας 271
Ταφικό
συγκρότηmicroα από τη ρωmicroαϊκή πόλη της Κασσιόπης 279
ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Emanuele GRECO
Paolo VITTI
Antonio CORSO
Massimo VITTI
Nota sul santuario di
Apollo
Pizio
ad
Atene
Η αρχιτεκτονική του Φάρου της Αλεξάνδρειας
A few thoughts on the Tower of the Winds in Athens
Η
Αγορά του Καίσαρα και ο Ναός της Αφροδίτης στη Ρώmicroη
Σχόλιο και ενηmicroέρωση
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299983085
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ΓΛΥΠΤΙΚΗ
Άλκηστις Χ ΩΡ Ε Μ Η983085 ΣΠ Ε Τ ΣΙΕ Ρ Η
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ΚΑΛΤΣΑΣ
Βάσω ΜΙΣΑΗΛΙ∆ΟΥ983085∆ΕΣΠΟΤΙ∆ΟΥ
Βικτώρια ΑΛΛΑΜΑΝΗ983085ΣΟΥΡΗ
Κεφάλι
γενειοφόρου άνδρα από επιτύmicroβιο microνηmicroείο
Κεφαλή
Οmicroήρου στο Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο
Μ ια
επιτύmicroβια στήλη από την περιοχή της Θεσσαλονίκης
Η στήλη microιας άγνωστης κόρης από τη Βέροια
∆έσποινα
ΠΑΠΑΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ983085∆ΙΑΜΑΝΤΟΥΡΟΥ
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Θεοδ οσία ΣΤΕΦΑΝΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ
Εντοιχισmicroένα
ταφικά
ανάγλυφα στη Θεσαλονίκη
Πρώτες
παρατηρήσεις
Valentina GRIGOROVA983085GENTCHEVA An inedited Imperial tatuefrom Bulgaria
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359
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Beryl
BARR983085SHARRAR
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εφυαλωmicroένης κεραmicroικής από τη Θεσσαλονίκη
415
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427
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της
Πεπαρήθου
Χάιδω ΚΟΥΚΟΥΛΗ983085ΧΡΥΣΑΝΘΑΚΗ
Α
∆
Ρ ΙΖ Α Κ ΗΣ
Zlaozara GOCHEVA
Απόλλων Κωmicroαίος στους Φίλιππους
Αργολικές λατρείες στην Αχαΐα
Η θρησκεία ως microέσον πολιτικής επιρροής και αναζήτησης ταυτότητας
T he Thracian Horseman s cult on the
territory
of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [FYROM]
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ΠΑΠΠΑ
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Παιονική ασπίδα στην Ορεστίδα της Άνω Μακεδονίας 579983085589
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χάντρα στα Αείβηθρα 591983085599
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VARIA
Νίκος ΜΙΝΩΣ
Π έ τ ρ ο ς
Θ Ε Μ Ε Λ Η Σ
Οι εργασίες συντήρησης στο
Ιλίου
Μέλαθρον
Αθανάσιος και Κωνσταντίνος ∆ηmicroητριάδης
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321
NOMItradeMATIKH
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis TSELEKAS
SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
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NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
324
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 5 mdash
mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 8 mdash mdash 9 mdash
mdash 10 mdash mdash 11 mdash
mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ
Koray KONUK
Θεόδωρος ΚΟΥΡΕΜΠΑΝΑΣ
Sophia KREMYDI983085SICILIANOU
John Η
KROLL
Ά δ ω ν ι ς Κ ΚΥ Ρ Ο Υ
Metodi MANOV
Βασίλης ΠΟΥΛΙΟΣ
Ε υ τέ ρ πη ΡΑΛΛΗ
Ilya PROKOPOV
Hans983085Dietrich
SCHULTZ
Kenneth SHEEDY
Vassiliki
E STEFANAKI
Stavri TOPALOV
∆ ή microητρ α Τ Σ ΑΓ ΚΑΡ Η983085Σ Τ Ε Φ ΑΝ Η
ώςΤΣΟΥΡΤ
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
Chrysanthos
VALASSIADIS
Bernha rd WEISSER Karsten DAHMEN
Michel AMANDRY
Slobodan DUaumlANIC
Wolfgang LESCHHORN
Katerini LIAMPI
Heacutelegravene NICOLET PIERRE
Ινώ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ
Cleopatra PAPAEVANGELOU983085GENAKOS
Kasolaumlba A new mint in
Karia 177 183
Αδηmicroοσίευτες επικοπές στα ελληνιστικά νοmicroίσmicroατα Θεσσαλονίκης
Αmicroφίπολης
και
Πέλλας
185983085190
T he
Tauropolos tetradrachms of the
first
Macedonian Mens
Provenance Iconography and dating
191983085201
An addition to
th e
Eleusinian
Triptolemospiglet coinage 203983085205
Η
τελευταία
Ερmicroιονική
φρουρά
στη νήσο
Τδρέα 207983085217
Relationships
between
two Scythian kings in
Dobroudja
and
some macedonian
hellenistic kings evidenced by
epigraphical
and numismatic data
219983085225
laquoΘησαυρόςraquoαργυρών νοmicroισmicroάτων Αmicroφίπολης και Θάσου
από
το νεκροταφείο της αρχαίας Γαζώρου (CHIX 18)
227983085233
Θησαυρός microολύβδινων συmicroβόλων από το Κορωπί Αττικής
235983085245
Basic coin types in Thrace
recorded
quantities and their participation
in the
coin circulation
during
the
2nd983085lst centuries BC
247983085253
Samische Phylen
255983085261
Ios
and Syros Studies in
th e
hellenistic coinages
of the Cyclades
263983085269
Le
monnayage
de
bronze
de
Viannos et
de
Malia
en
Cregravete orientale 271 283
A bronze coin of the type of Alexander III re-minted with stamps
of the coin type ofPhilip II 285 291
Έ να
microοναδικό τετράδραχmicroο τηςΑιτωλικής Συmicroπολιτείας 293983085297
Η
συλλογή Θεοδώρας
Αυγέρη 299983085319
On the Skione 19901 hoard [GB
VIII
(1994) 63 cmx
(2002) 4] 321983085329
Z ur
Zirkulation der
Muumlnzen Kassanders 331 341
Goldene
Alexander zum Geschenk
343 359
Le
monnayage de Geacuteta
Auguste au nom du
Koinon Kupr iocircn 361 365
Domitian and the
coins
of the Dardanian mines
367 375
Der
Kaiser als
Gruumlnder Der titel
ΚΤΙ ΣΤΗΣ
auf
griechischen
Muumlnzen
der Roumlmischen Kaiserzeit 377 383
Ein Schatzfund von Praumlgungen Neros der Praumlgestaumltte Thessaloniki
im Bereich Serres (Ostmakedonien 2003) 385 393
Monnaies de Naxos (Cyclades)
d eacutepoque
impeacuteriale romaine 395 405
Νοmicroίσmicroατα του
αυτοκράτορα Βεσπασιανού
που κόπηκαν για την Κύπρο
στ ο
Νοmicroισmicroατικό
Μουσείο
Αθηνών
407983085411
T he metrology
of
th e coinage
of
Amphipolis
in imperial times ^13983085^21
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ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ
Χαρίκλεια ΠΑΠΑΓΕΩΡΓΙΑ∆ΟΥ983085ΜΠΑΝΗ
Γιάννης ΣΤΟΓΙΑΣ
Julian BAKER Mina GALANI983085KRIKOU
Luigi BESCHI
Orestes Η ZERVOS
Ernest
OBERLAumlNDER TARNOVEANU
Βάσω ΠΕΝΝΑ
Αικατ ΤΣΑΝΑΝΑ Κλεάνθης ∆ΟΥΚΑΣ
Π α ν α γ ι ώ τ ης Κ ΟΚ Κ Α Σ
Α νδ ρέα ς Μ Α Ζ Α Ρ Α Κ ΗΣ
∆έσποινα ΕΥΓΕΝΙ∆ΟΥ
Νοmicroίσmicroατα
της συλλογής
J ριανταφυλλίδη στ ο
Νοmicroισmicroατικό Μουσείο
429
Σπάνια ψευδοαυτόνοmicroη κοπή αυτοκρατορικών χρόνων
τ ο υ
Κοινού των Θεσσαλών 447
Further considerations on the numismatics of Catalan Greece
in the light of
t he
Athens Roman
Agora
(Lytsika) 1891 hoards ^51
Giovanni
VlIIPaleologo
diPisanello
nel museo numismatico
di
Atene
47
A new variant of the
copper
tetarteron with
jeweled
cross ofAlexius I Comnenus 4
T he imitative gold
coinage
of Byzantine type from the late 12th
and the early 13th century
491
laquoΘησαυρόςraquoΠάρου1999 επανεξέταση των laquoπιστών αποmicroιmicroήσεων raquo
507
Βυζαντινά
νοmicroίσmicroατα από τη Βρύα της Χαλκιδικής
517
Ο
θησαυρός Οθωmicroανικών άσπρων
laquoΜαντέmicro
Αάκκος Στράτων ίου Χαλκιδικής 1938raquo
541
Ο
θησαυρός απότοΡάϊκος Κουρεντίων Ηπείρου
555
∆υ ο microεταλλικά
κύπελλα
του Ιωάννη Αριστάρχη
569
ΣΦ Ρ ΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ
Ιωάννα ΚΟΛΤΣΙ∆Α983085ΜΑΚΡΗ
Γιόρκα
ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ
579
Μολυβδόβουλλα Συλλογής Ναούmicro
581
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αυτοκρατορική βούλλα από τις συλλογές του Νοmicroισmicroατικού
Μουσείου 593
ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΜΕΝΑ
605
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Β
ΕΠΙΓΡ ΦΙΚΗ
Γ ι ώ ρ γ ο ς ∆ Ε Σ Π Ι Ν Η Σ
Χ ρ υ σ ο ύ λ α
ΣΑΑΤΣΟΓΛΟΥ983085ΠΑΛΙΑ∆ΕΛΗ
Μ α ρί α ΛΙ ΛΙ ΜΠΑΚΗ983085ΑΚΑΜΑΤ Η
Ε micromicroα ν ο υ ή λ ΒΟΥΤΥΡΑΣ
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Βάσα Κ ΟΝΤΟΡΙΝΗ
Λ ί ν α Γ Μ Ε Ν ∆ Ω Ν Η
Constantinos LAGOS
Κ ων στ α ν τ ί ν ο ς Τ Σ Α Κ Ο Σ
Denis KNOEPFLER
Ηλίας
Σ Β Ε Ρ Κ Ο Σ
Α microα λ ί α
ΚΑΡΑΠΑΣΧΑΛΙ∆ΟΥ
Γ Α ΣΟΥΡΗΣ
Γ ι ώ ρ γ ο ς Β Ε Λ Ε Ν Η Σ
Αγ γ ελ ι κ ή Σ Τ Ρ Α Τ Η
Παντελής Μ ΝΙΓ∆ΕΛΗΣ
Ιωάννης
ΒΟΑ ΑΝ ΑΚΗ Σ
Ο δίσκος του εθνικού microουσείου αριθ 93
laquomicroνέmicroα τόδαίνέο σοφίας ιατρό
άριστοraquo
Ενεπίγραφο
απότmicroηmicroα από την περιοχή του
θεάτρου
των Αιγών
Εθνικά
ονόmicroατα σε επιγραφές της Πέλλας
Παρατηρήσεις
σε δύο επιγράmicromicroατα από τη Βέροια
Some new documents from the Macedonian chancery
Problems of form and content
Άγνωστα laquoφαντάσmicroαταraquo
σε γνωστές
επιγραφές
από τη
Ρόδο
Τιmicroητικό ψήφισmicroα από την Καρθaia
Athena Itonia at
Amorgos
A new interpretation of the Evidence
Η Φίλα και η Σάmicroος προβληmicroατισmicroοί γύρω από ένα βωmicroό
Su r le nom dun citoyen d Akanthos
enleveacute par
le s
pirates (Polyen VI54)
Μ ια επιτάφια ενεπίγραφη στήλη από την Ορεστίδα
Αίθινη ενεπίγραφη στήλη από τη Χαλκίδα983085Πεδίο βολής
Επικλήσεις στην Τύχη των αυτοκρατόρων
σε επιγραφές από τη Μακεδονία
Η
επιγραφή του Θύρσου στην
Τεγέα
Η επιτύmicroβια επιγραφή του Αθανασίου Μασγίδα
στ η microονή Τιmicroίου Προδρόmicroου Σερρών Σχόλια και παρατηρήσεις
Ο Νέστωρ ο Αυαίος και τα Πύθια Ο βίος του Αγίου ∆ηmicroητρίου
υπ ό το φως νέων επιγραφικών ευρηmicroάτων
Ανέκδοτες επιγραφές και χαράγmicroατα από ναούς και microονές
το υ νοmicroού Ηρακλείου Κρήτης
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1398308521
2398308531
3398308545
4798308555
5798308569
7198308579
8198308589
91983085105
107983085111
113983085119
121983085123
125983085131
133983085141
143983085149
151983085159
161983085165
ΡΧ ΙΟΛ ΟΓΙ
ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΠΑ
Σ τ έ λ λ α ∆ΡΟΥΓΟΥ
Κ ΣΟΥΕΡΕΦ
Εικόνες και σύmicroβολα
περί
των Αιγών
Η εποχή των Αντιπατριδών και οι laquoΜακεδόνικοι Τάφοιraquo
τη ς Θεσσαλονίκειας και Κασσανδρειωτικής χώρας
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169983085189
171983085179
181983085189
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ΑΝΑΣΚΑΦΙΚΑ
Ιωάννης Μ ΑΚΑΜΑΤΗΣ
Αγγελική ΚΟΤΤΑΡΙ∆Η
Λιάνα
ΠΑΡΛΑΜΑ
Στ έφ η ΚΟΡΤΗ983085ΚΟΝΤΗ
Μαρία
ΤΣΙΜΠΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΑΥΛΩΝΙΤΗ
Αναστασία ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
∆έσποινα ΖΕΡΝΙΩΤΗ
191
Προϊστορική Πέλλα Νεκροταφείο εποχής Χαλκού 193
Η
ορεινή Ηmicroαθία στην πρώιmicroη εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος983085 7ος αι
π Χ)
215
Παλαmicroάρι
Σκύρου η ανασκαφή της οχύρωσης 20009830852007 227
Ιωνικά
ευρήmicroατα στον αρχαϊκό Θερmicroαϊκό
243
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Ταφικό
συγκρότηmicroα από τη ρωmicroαϊκή πόλη της Κασσιόπης 279
ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Emanuele GRECO
Paolo VITTI
Antonio CORSO
Massimo VITTI
Nota sul santuario di
Apollo
Pizio
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Atene
Η αρχιτεκτονική του Φάρου της Αλεξάνδρειας
A few thoughts on the Tower of the Winds in Athens
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Αγορά του Καίσαρα και ο Ναός της Αφροδίτης στη Ρώmicroη
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Κεφάλι
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εφυαλωmicroένης κεραmicroικής από τη Θεσσαλονίκη
415
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Ρ ΙΖ Α Κ ΗΣ
Zlaozara GOCHEVA
Απόλλων Κωmicroαίος στους Φίλιππους
Αργολικές λατρείες στην Αχαΐα
Η θρησκεία ως microέσον πολιτικής επιρροής και αναζήτησης ταυτότητας
T he Thracian Horseman s cult on the
territory
of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [FYROM]
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321
NOMItradeMATIKH
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis TSELEKAS
SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
322
NOMItradeMATIKH
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
323
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
324
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 5 mdash
mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
325
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 8 mdash mdash 9 mdash
mdash 10 mdash mdash 11 mdash
mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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Χαρίκλεια ΠΑΠΑΓΕΩΡΓΙΑ∆ΟΥ983085ΜΠΑΝΗ
Γιάννης ΣΤΟΓΙΑΣ
Julian BAKER Mina GALANI983085KRIKOU
Luigi BESCHI
Orestes Η ZERVOS
Ernest
OBERLAumlNDER TARNOVEANU
Βάσω ΠΕΝΝΑ
Αικατ ΤΣΑΝΑΝΑ Κλεάνθης ∆ΟΥΚΑΣ
Π α ν α γ ι ώ τ ης Κ ΟΚ Κ Α Σ
Α νδ ρέα ς Μ Α Ζ Α Ρ Α Κ ΗΣ
∆έσποινα ΕΥΓΕΝΙ∆ΟΥ
Νοmicroίσmicroατα
της συλλογής
J ριανταφυλλίδη στ ο
Νοmicroισmicroατικό Μουσείο
429
Σπάνια ψευδοαυτόνοmicroη κοπή αυτοκρατορικών χρόνων
τ ο υ
Κοινού των Θεσσαλών 447
Further considerations on the numismatics of Catalan Greece
in the light of
t he
Athens Roman
Agora
(Lytsika) 1891 hoards ^51
Giovanni
VlIIPaleologo
diPisanello
nel museo numismatico
di
Atene
47
A new variant of the
copper
tetarteron with
jeweled
cross ofAlexius I Comnenus 4
T he imitative gold
coinage
of Byzantine type from the late 12th
and the early 13th century
491
laquoΘησαυρόςraquoΠάρου1999 επανεξέταση των laquoπιστών αποmicroιmicroήσεων raquo
507
Βυζαντινά
νοmicroίσmicroατα από τη Βρύα της Χαλκιδικής
517
Ο
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laquoΜαντέmicro
Αάκκος Στράτων ίου Χαλκιδικής 1938raquo
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ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ
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Μολυβδόβουλλα Συλλογής Ναούmicro
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laquoΤο θαύmicroα των βασιλέων και η δίκη του Σεκρέτουraquo microια microοναδική
αυτοκρατορική βούλλα από τις συλλογές του Νοmicroισmicroατικού
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Μ α ρί α ΛΙ ΛΙ ΜΠΑΚΗ983085ΑΚΑΜΑΤ Η
Ε micromicroα ν ο υ ή λ ΒΟΥΤΥΡΑΣ
Μ Β HATZOPOULOS
Βάσα Κ ΟΝΤΟΡΙΝΗ
Λ ί ν α Γ Μ Ε Ν ∆ Ω Ν Η
Constantinos LAGOS
Κ ων στ α ν τ ί ν ο ς Τ Σ Α Κ Ο Σ
Denis KNOEPFLER
Ηλίας
Σ Β Ε Ρ Κ Ο Σ
Α microα λ ί α
ΚΑΡΑΠΑΣΧΑΛΙ∆ΟΥ
Γ Α ΣΟΥΡΗΣ
Γ ι ώ ρ γ ο ς Β Ε Λ Ε Ν Η Σ
Αγ γ ελ ι κ ή Σ Τ Ρ Α Τ Η
Παντελής Μ ΝΙΓ∆ΕΛΗΣ
Ιωάννης
ΒΟΑ ΑΝ ΑΚΗ Σ
Ο δίσκος του εθνικού microουσείου αριθ 93
laquomicroνέmicroα τόδαίνέο σοφίας ιατρό
άριστοraquo
Ενεπίγραφο
απότmicroηmicroα από την περιοχή του
θεάτρου
των Αιγών
Εθνικά
ονόmicroατα σε επιγραφές της Πέλλας
Παρατηρήσεις
σε δύο επιγράmicromicroατα από τη Βέροια
Some new documents from the Macedonian chancery
Problems of form and content
Άγνωστα laquoφαντάσmicroαταraquo
σε γνωστές
επιγραφές
από τη
Ρόδο
Τιmicroητικό ψήφισmicroα από την Καρθaia
Athena Itonia at
Amorgos
A new interpretation of the Evidence
Η Φίλα και η Σάmicroος προβληmicroατισmicroοί γύρω από ένα βωmicroό
Su r le nom dun citoyen d Akanthos
enleveacute par
le s
pirates (Polyen VI54)
Μ ια επιτάφια ενεπίγραφη στήλη από την Ορεστίδα
Αίθινη ενεπίγραφη στήλη από τη Χαλκίδα983085Πεδίο βολής
Επικλήσεις στην Τύχη των αυτοκρατόρων
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Η
επιγραφή του Θύρσου στην
Τεγέα
Η επιτύmicroβια επιγραφή του Αθανασίου Μασγίδα
στ η microονή Τιmicroίου Προδρόmicroου Σερρών Σχόλια και παρατηρήσεις
Ο Νέστωρ ο Αυαίος και τα Πύθια Ο βίος του Αγίου ∆ηmicroητρίου
υπ ό το φως νέων επιγραφικών ευρηmicroάτων
Ανέκδοτες επιγραφές και χαράγmicroατα από ναούς και microονές
το υ νοmicroού Ηρακλείου Κρήτης
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Κ ΣΟΥΕΡΕΦ
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των Αιγών
Η εποχή των Αντιπατριδών και οι laquoΜακεδόνικοι Τάφοιraquo
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Ιωάννης Μ ΑΚΑΜΑΤΗΣ
Αγγελική ΚΟΤΤΑΡΙ∆Η
Λιάνα
ΠΑΡΛΑΜΑ
Στ έφ η ΚΟΡΤΗ983085ΚΟΝΤΗ
Μαρία
ΤΣΙΜΠΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΑΥΛΩΝΙΤΗ
Αναστασία ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
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Προϊστορική Πέλλα Νεκροταφείο εποχής Χαλκού 193
Η
ορεινή Ηmicroαθία στην πρώιmicroη εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος983085 7ος αι
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Παλαmicroάρι
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Φοίνικας 2005 Η microαρτυρία του κιβωτιόσχηmicroου τάφου 4 251
Ταφικό σύνολο από το ∆υτικό Νεκροταφείο του Αρχοντικού Πέλλας 271
Ταφικό
συγκρότηmicroα από τη ρωmicroαϊκή πόλη της Κασσιόπης 279
ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Emanuele GRECO
Paolo VITTI
Antonio CORSO
Massimo VITTI
Nota sul santuario di
Apollo
Pizio
ad
Atene
Η αρχιτεκτονική του Φάρου της Αλεξάνδρειας
A few thoughts on the Tower of the Winds in Athens
Η
Αγορά του Καίσαρα και ο Ναός της Αφροδίτης στη Ρώmicroη
Σχόλιο και ενηmicroέρωση
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Μ ια
επιτύmicroβια στήλη από την περιοχή της Θεσσαλονίκης
Η στήλη microιας άγνωστης κόρης από τη Βέροια
∆έσποινα
ΠΑΠΑΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ983085∆ΙΑΜΑΝΤΟΥΡΟΥ
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Εντοιχισmicroένα
ταφικά
ανάγλυφα στη Θεσαλονίκη
Πρώτες
παρατηρήσεις
Valentina GRIGOROVA983085GENTCHEVA An inedited Imperial tatuefrom Bulgaria
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εφυαλωmicroένης κεραmicroικής από τη Θεσσαλονίκη
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417
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441
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Α
∆
Ρ ΙΖ Α Κ ΗΣ
Zlaozara GOCHEVA
Απόλλων Κωmicroαίος στους Φίλιππους
Αργολικές λατρείες στην Αχαΐα
Η θρησκεία ως microέσον πολιτικής επιρροής και αναζήτησης ταυτότητας
T he Thracian Horseman s cult on the
territory
of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [FYROM]
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Κ α τ ε ρ ί ν α ΤΖΑΝΑΒΑΡΗ
Φωτ ε ι ν ή
ΖΑΦΕΙΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ
Χ α ρ ά λ α micro π ο ς
ΤΣΟΥΓΓΑΡΗΣ
∆έσποινα ΙΓΝΑΤΙΑ∆ΟΥ
Πολυξένη Α∆ΑΜ983085ΒΕΛΕΝΗ
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Νεολιθικός οικισmicroός Μακρύγιαλου Πιερίας
Αντικείmicroενα
από spondylus gaederopus 533983085545
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χρυσών ενωτίων της όψιmicroης κλασικής και της ελληνιστικής εποχής
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Χάλκινο δακτυλίδι απ ό Αιτωλικό Νεκροταφείο 573983085577
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Π έ τ ρ ο ς
Θ Ε Μ Ε Λ Η Σ
Οι εργασίες συντήρησης στο
Ιλίου
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ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis TSELEKAS
SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
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mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
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mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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Ο δίσκος του εθνικού microουσείου αριθ 93
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Ενεπίγραφο
απότmicroηmicroα από την περιοχή του
θεάτρου
των Αιγών
Εθνικά
ονόmicroατα σε επιγραφές της Πέλλας
Παρατηρήσεις
σε δύο επιγράmicromicroατα από τη Βέροια
Some new documents from the Macedonian chancery
Problems of form and content
Άγνωστα laquoφαντάσmicroαταraquo
σε γνωστές
επιγραφές
από τη
Ρόδο
Τιmicroητικό ψήφισmicroα από την Καρθaia
Athena Itonia at
Amorgos
A new interpretation of the Evidence
Η Φίλα και η Σάmicroος προβληmicroατισmicroοί γύρω από ένα βωmicroό
Su r le nom dun citoyen d Akanthos
enleveacute par
le s
pirates (Polyen VI54)
Μ ια επιτάφια ενεπίγραφη στήλη από την Ορεστίδα
Αίθινη ενεπίγραφη στήλη από τη Χαλκίδα983085Πεδίο βολής
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Η επιτύmicroβια επιγραφή του Αθανασίου Μασγίδα
στ η microονή Τιmicroίου Προδρόmicroου Σερρών Σχόλια και παρατηρήσεις
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υπ ό το φως νέων επιγραφικών ευρηmicroάτων
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ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΠΑ
Σ τ έ λ λ α ∆ΡΟΥΓΟΥ
Κ ΣΟΥΕΡΕΦ
Εικόνες και σύmicroβολα
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Ιωάννης Μ ΑΚΑΜΑΤΗΣ
Αγγελική ΚΟΤΤΑΡΙ∆Η
Λιάνα
ΠΑΡΛΑΜΑ
Στ έφ η ΚΟΡΤΗ983085ΚΟΝΤΗ
Μαρία
ΤΣΙΜΠΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΑΥΛΩΝΙΤΗ
Αναστασία ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
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191
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Η
ορεινή Ηmicroαθία στην πρώιmicroη εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος983085 7ος αι
π Χ)
215
Παλαmicroάρι
Σκύρου η ανασκαφή της οχύρωσης 20009830852007 227
Ιωνικά
ευρήmicroατα στον αρχαϊκό Θερmicroαϊκό
243
Φοίνικας 2005 Η microαρτυρία του κιβωτιόσχηmicroου τάφου 4 251
Ταφικό σύνολο από το ∆υτικό Νεκροταφείο του Αρχοντικού Πέλλας 271
Ταφικό
συγκρότηmicroα από τη ρωmicroαϊκή πόλη της Κασσιόπης 279
ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Emanuele GRECO
Paolo VITTI
Antonio CORSO
Massimo VITTI
Nota sul santuario di
Apollo
Pizio
ad
Atene
Η αρχιτεκτονική του Φάρου της Αλεξάνδρειας
A few thoughts on the Tower of the Winds in Athens
Η
Αγορά του Καίσαρα και ο Ναός της Αφροδίτης στη Ρώmicroη
Σχόλιο και ενηmicroέρωση
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ΓΛΥΠΤΙΚΗ
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ΚΑΛΤΣΑΣ
Βάσω ΜΙΣΑΗΛΙ∆ΟΥ983085∆ΕΣΠΟΤΙ∆ΟΥ
Βικτώρια ΑΛΛΑΜΑΝΗ983085ΣΟΥΡΗ
Κεφάλι
γενειοφόρου άνδρα από επιτύmicroβιο microνηmicroείο
Κεφαλή
Οmicroήρου στο Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο
Μ ια
επιτύmicroβια στήλη από την περιοχή της Θεσσαλονίκης
Η στήλη microιας άγνωστης κόρης από τη Βέροια
∆έσποινα
ΠΑΠΑΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ983085∆ΙΑΜΑΝΤΟΥΡΟΥ
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Θεοδ οσία ΣΤΕΦΑΝΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ
Εντοιχισmicroένα
ταφικά
ανάγλυφα στη Θεσαλονίκη
Πρώτες
παρατηρήσεις
Valentina GRIGOROVA983085GENTCHEVA An inedited Imperial tatuefrom Bulgaria
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Παύλος ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
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∆ήmicroητρα ΠΑΠΑΝΙΚΟΛΑ983085ΜΠΑΚΙΡΤΖΗ
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∆ΟΑΙΟraquo ∆ύο ενεπίγραφοι
κάνθαροι των υστεροαρχαϊκών χρόνων από τη Μακεδονία
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Plakettenvase from Ancient Messene
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εφυαλωmicroένης κεραmicroικής από τη Θεσσαλονίκη
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427
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της
Πεπαρήθου
Χάιδω ΚΟΥΚΟΥΛΗ983085ΧΡΥΣΑΝΘΑΚΗ
Α
∆
Ρ ΙΖ Α Κ ΗΣ
Zlaozara GOCHEVA
Απόλλων Κωmicroαίος στους Φίλιππους
Αργολικές λατρείες στην Αχαΐα
Η θρησκεία ως microέσον πολιτικής επιρροής και αναζήτησης ταυτότητας
T he Thracian Horseman s cult on the
territory
of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [FYROM]
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Μ α ρί α
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απ ό
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Π έ τ ρ ο ς
Θ Ε Μ Ε Λ Η Σ
Οι εργασίες συντήρησης στο
Ιλίου
Μέλαθρον
Αθανάσιος και Κωνσταντίνος ∆ηmicroητριάδης
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321
NOMItradeMATIKH
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis TSELEKAS
SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
322
NOMItradeMATIKH
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
323
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
324
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 5 mdash
mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
325
NOMItradeMATIKH
mdash 8 mdash mdash 9 mdash
mdash 10 mdash mdash 11 mdash
mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
326
NOMItradeMATIKH
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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Αγγελική ΚΟΤΤΑΡΙ∆Η
Λιάνα
ΠΑΡΛΑΜΑ
Στ έφ η ΚΟΡΤΗ983085ΚΟΝΤΗ
Μαρία
ΤΣΙΜΠΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΑΥΛΩΝΙΤΗ
Αναστασία ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ
∆έσποινα ΖΕΡΝΙΩΤΗ
191
Προϊστορική Πέλλα Νεκροταφείο εποχής Χαλκού 193
Η
ορεινή Ηmicroαθία στην πρώιmicroη εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος983085 7ος αι
π Χ)
215
Παλαmicroάρι
Σκύρου η ανασκαφή της οχύρωσης 20009830852007 227
Ιωνικά
ευρήmicroατα στον αρχαϊκό Θερmicroαϊκό
243
Φοίνικας 2005 Η microαρτυρία του κιβωτιόσχηmicroου τάφου 4 251
Ταφικό σύνολο από το ∆υτικό Νεκροταφείο του Αρχοντικού Πέλλας 271
Ταφικό
συγκρότηmicroα από τη ρωmicroαϊκή πόλη της Κασσιόπης 279
ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Emanuele GRECO
Paolo VITTI
Antonio CORSO
Massimo VITTI
Nota sul santuario di
Apollo
Pizio
ad
Atene
Η αρχιτεκτονική του Φάρου της Αλεξάνδρειας
A few thoughts on the Tower of the Winds in Athens
Η
Αγορά του Καίσαρα και ο Ναός της Αφροδίτης στη Ρώmicroη
Σχόλιο και ενηmicroέρωση
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ΓΛΥΠΤΙΚΗ
Άλκηστις Χ ΩΡ Ε Μ Η983085 ΣΠ Ε Τ ΣΙΕ Ρ Η
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ΚΑΛΤΣΑΣ
Βάσω ΜΙΣΑΗΛΙ∆ΟΥ983085∆ΕΣΠΟΤΙ∆ΟΥ
Βικτώρια ΑΛΛΑΜΑΝΗ983085ΣΟΥΡΗ
Κεφάλι
γενειοφόρου άνδρα από επιτύmicroβιο microνηmicroείο
Κεφαλή
Οmicroήρου στο Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο
Μ ια
επιτύmicroβια στήλη από την περιοχή της Θεσσαλονίκης
Η στήλη microιας άγνωστης κόρης από τη Βέροια
∆έσποινα
ΠΑΠΑΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ983085∆ΙΑΜΑΝΤΟΥΡΟΥ
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Θεοδ οσία ΣΤΕΦΑΝΙ∆ΟΥ983085ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ
Εντοιχισmicroένα
ταφικά
ανάγλυφα στη Θεσαλονίκη
Πρώτες
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Valentina GRIGOROVA983085GENTCHEVA An inedited Imperial tatuefrom Bulgaria
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Beryl
BARR983085SHARRAR
∆ήmicroητρα ΠΑΠΑΝΙΚΟΛΑ983085ΜΠΑΚΙΡΤΖΗ
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EM I Τ Η Σ
∆ΟΑΙΟraquo ∆ύο ενεπίγραφοι
κάνθαροι των υστεροαρχαϊκών χρόνων από τη Μακεδονία
Γόνας microόρος
Α
Plakettenvase from Ancient Messene
laquoΠολύτιmicroαraquo εργαστηριακά απορρίmicromicroατα
εφυαλωmicroένης κεραmicroικής από τη Θεσσαλονίκη
415
417
427
441
451
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ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ
4 6 9 983085 5 2 9
Αρ γυ ρο υλ α ∆ΟΤΛΓΕΡΗ983085ΙΝΤΖΕΣΙΛΟΓΛΟΤ Ο
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της
Πεπαρήθου
Χάιδω ΚΟΥΚΟΥΛΗ983085ΧΡΥΣΑΝΘΑΚΗ
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∆
Ρ ΙΖ Α Κ ΗΣ
Zlaozara GOCHEVA
Απόλλων Κωmicroαίος στους Φίλιππους
Αργολικές λατρείες στην Αχαΐα
Η θρησκεία ως microέσον πολιτικής επιρροής και αναζήτησης ταυτότητας
T he Thracian Horseman s cult on the
territory
of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [FYROM]
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481983085503
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513983085529
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Μ α ρί α
ΠΑΠΠΑ
Ε λ ι σά β ε τ 983085Μ π ε τ τ ί ν α
ΤΣΙΓΑΡΙ∆Α
Κ α τ ε ρ ί ν α ΤΖΑΝΑΒΑΡΗ
Φωτ ε ι ν ή
ΖΑΦΕΙΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ
Χ α ρ ά λ α micro π ο ς
ΤΣΟΥΓΓΑΡΗΣ
∆έσποινα ΙΓΝΑΤΙΑ∆ΟΥ
Πολυξένη Α∆ΑΜ983085ΒΕΛΕΝΗ
531983085605
Νεολιθικός οικισmicroός Μακρύγιαλου Πιερίας
Αντικείmicroενα
από spondylus gaederopus 533983085545
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απ ό τη βόρεια Πιερία 547983085559
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την αρχαία Αητή
561983085571
Χάλκινο δακτυλίδι απ ό Αιτωλικό Νεκροταφείο 573983085577
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609983085617
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SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
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mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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SUMMARY
In 1998 the Athens Numismatic Museum acquired part of a hoard (thirteen silver staters of Akanthos Mende andSkione) that allegedly had been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in the Chalkidikeand was dispersed in the market
The hoard contained silver staters of local mints (26-70 of Akanthos 90-100 of Mende 45-50 of Skione and 1 of Poteidaia) struck in the first half of the 5th century BC and possibly 20 Athenian tetradrachms The notablyincreased production of silver staters in the Chalkidike during the decades of 480s and 470s BC and its subsequentrestriction to the mints of Akanthos and Mende resulted in the older issues circulating widely in the area till thethird quarter of the 5th century BC
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440 BC An Atheniancomponent ndash provided it actually existed ndash might connect its burial with the Athenian military operations in theChalkidike during the first decade of the Peloponnesian war However Athenian coinage could have reached
the area at a much earlier date The lsquoowlsrsquo were broadly accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouragedvarious payments ndash such as tribute to the Delian League ndash in Attic money even before the enactment of theirso-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
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mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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The Athens Numismatic Museum acquired in 1998 a lot of fourteen silver coins which wereconfiscated in Brindisi in 19941 Thirteen of them were covered by the same dark patina anelement indicating that the pieces formed part of the same concealment2 Of the thirteencoins one is a stater of Akanthos six are staters of Mende and six staters of Skione all citiesin the Chalkidike
The context of this group strongly indicates that the coins are part of a hoard which is saidto have been discovered in the early 1990s at or near the site of ancient Skione in theChalkidike It was dispersed without being fully recorded and began to appear in the marketin the 1990s The hoard was registered twice in the Coin Hoards first in CH VIII (1994) 63
as ldquoSkione 1991rdquo and then in CH IX (2002) 4 as ldquoSkione early 1990rdquo3 The information onthe hoard is not altogether accurate and this is reflected on the discrepancy in the twoentries In the first entry the hoard consisted of c 200 silver coins of which 26 staters of Akanthos 50 of Skione4 101 of Mende 1 of Potedaia and 20 tetradrachms of Athens In thesecond the hoard is reported as containing 220 silver staters of which 70+ were of Akanthos90+ of Mende and 45 of Skione
This paper is offered to Ioannis Touratsoglou in appreciation for his encouragement to engage in Numismaticssome twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Thessaloniki The part of the hoardpresented here reached the Athens Numismatic Museum during his directorship Special thanks are due toDr Evangeline Markou for photographing the coins
1 I TOYPATtradeOdegsectOY H TtradeOYPTH E PAsectsectH I tradeTOdegIAtrade ldquoparaUacuteOcircUcircIcircUgravelsaquoIgravemiddotUgravemiddot UgraveOcirc˘ NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircOcircDagger MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘ 1994-
2000rdquo in IIumlrsaquoOcirc˘ McurrenIumlmiddotıUacuteOcircOacute 2000 TOcirc NOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveEgraveIcircfi MOcirc˘UcircAcircrsaquoOcirc UcircUgraveOcirc IcircmiddotUgraveOgraveEcircIumlEgrave UgraveOcirc˘ 21Ocirc˘ middotEgraveOgraveOacutemiddot AılsaquoOacutemiddot 2001 p 70
2 The fourteenth coin is an Athenian ldquoNew Stylerdquo tetradrachm of the KTHtradeI ndash EYMA and Nike seriesCfMTHOMPSON The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens New York 1961 p 94-98 nos 266-286
3 This is confirmed by Andrew Meadows co-editor of the CH IX
4 Not didrachms as reported in the entry
KmiddotUgraveAcircUacutersaquoOacutemiddot degpartoslashƒdeginfinintinfinintprod
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
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mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
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mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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CATALOGUE
AKANTHOS
Obv Lion to right on back of bull to left the bull with neck bent and head almost brought to the ground
is kneeling on left foreleg the lion fastening with teeth and claws on the hindquarters of the bull in
the exergue tuna to left Within a circular border of dotsRev Quadripartite linear square around AKANpoundION Within an incuse square1 1718 gm 29 mm 06 h inv no 1 19985
MENDE
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right on its rump crow facing right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern2 1720 gm 245 mm mdash inv no 2 19986
Obv Ithyphallic ass to right above crescent with tips upward MINcent AO N Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern3 1725 gm 27 mm mdash inv no 3 199874 1732 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 4 1998 Same reverse die with no 3
5 Cf J DESNEUX ldquoLes teacutetradrachmes drsquoAkanthosrdquo RBelgNum 95 (1949) p 5-122 no 95
6 Cf SP NOE The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard NNM 27 New York 1926 no 7
7 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 11
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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mdash 1 mdash
mdash 2 mdash
mdash 3 mdash mdash 4 mdash
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
324
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mdash 5 mdash
mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
325
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mdash 10 mdash mdash 11 mdash
mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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Obv Ithyphallic ass to right MIN cent AION (retrograde beginning above left foreleg) Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern5 1712 gm 26 mm mdash inv no 5 19988
Obv Braying ithyphallic ass to right on which stands bird pecking rump behind vine with leaves andcluster MIN Within a circular border of dots
Rev Incuse of windmill pattern with annulet at centre6 1653 gm 28 mm mdash inv no 6 19989
Obv Dionysos draped below waist wearing ivy wreath and holding cantharus reclining on the back of an ass to right in front of the ass crow right Within a circular border of dots
Rev Vine with four clusters in a linear border around MENcentAION Within an incuse square7 1714 gm 28 mm 09 h inv no 7 199810
8 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 18
9 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 19
10 Ib op cit (supra n 6) no 55 (same dies)
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mdash 6 mdash
mdash 7 mdash
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
325
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mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
328
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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SKIONE
Obv Head of Protesilaos to right wearing crested Attic helmetRev Stern of a galley in incuse square trade K I O in corners8 1682 gm 25 mm 12 h inv no 8 199811
9 1683 gm 25 mm 03 h inv no 9 1998 Same dies with no 8
10 1661 gm 25 mm 06 h inv no 10 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crest12
11 1677 gm 25 mm 09 h inv no 11 1998 Same reverse die with no 10
12 1682 gm 245 mm 03 h inv no 12 1998 Obv paraPhellipTEtradeIsectAtrade runs retrogradealong the crestscrollwork on bowl of helmet in 12 and1313 Same reverse die with no 10
13 1676 gm 235 mm 01 h inv no 13 1998 Same dies with no 12
11 L MILDENBERG S HURTER (eds) The Arthur S Dewing Collection of Greek Coins ACNAC 6 New York 1985no 1076
12 Cf A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks London 1965 p 21 and pl 11 no 20
13 Cf M COMSTOCK C VERMEULE Greek Coins 1950 to 1963 Boston 1964 no 44
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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mdash 8 mdash mdash 9 mdash
mdash 10 mdash mdash 11 mdash
mdash 12 mdash mdash 13 mdash
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
326
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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The content of the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard has been partially reconstructed by a thoroughsearch of the sale catalogues Some of the issues concerned especially the Skione ones wererare before the discovery of the hoard Whenever such coins appear in sale catalogues fromthe 1990s for the first time and with their provenance unknown they most likely come fromthe hoard14
The Akanthos material consists of staters with the lion and bull fight with fish (as Desneuxnos 95-102) two branches (as Desneux nos 104-106) or vine leaf and grapes (Desneuxnos 113-115) in the exergue and the inscription AKANpoundION placed around a quadripartitelinear square15 Reverses of a central linear square enclosed by the legend of the authorityresponsible for the production of the coinage were developed in most of the Northern Greekcoinages like those of the kings Getas of the Edoni Mosses of the Bisalti Alexander I of Macedon and the cities Aineia Akanthos Mende Abdera and Maroneia It seems that thereis some chronological relationship of this reverse style at the various mints16 In absence of hoard evidence the stages of development of the inscription provide reference points for thechronology of these coinages The first experiments with some slanting letters of theinscription do not seem to have started before 470 while a symmetrical arrangement of theletters was achieved in ca 465 46017
The Mende section consists of staters with the ass and the various incuse patterns (Noegroup I) issued in the late Archaic period18 and with Dionysos on ass and the inscribedreverse (Noe group II) issued from the 460s onwards19 The Mende material is similar tothat of the ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard (IGCH 358) and according to Mattingly who traced itin the sales catalogues of the 1990s it goes down to Noe no 64 with many new dies andcombinations20
14 Needless to mention that recently discovered hoards found by clandestine diggers and dispersed in trade haveprovided inspiration for the manufacture and opportunities for the marketing of counterfeits Forgers have takenadvantage of such hoards exception as cloaks for passing off their own wares In the case of the ldquoSkione 19901rdquohoard cleverly faked imitations of Akanthos staters with the fish in the exergue appeared in the market at thesame time as pieces from the hoard See P TSELEKAS The Coinage of Acanthus unpublished DPhil thesis Oxford1996 p 187
15 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 14) p 151-152
16 JMF MAY The Coinage of Abdera London 1966 p 86-87
17 CM KRAAY ldquo The Asyut hoard some comments on chronology rdquo NumChron7th series 17 (1977) p 189-198at 191-192 JH KAGAN ldquo The Decadrachm hoard chronology and consequencesrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p21-28 at 25 For a different view seeHCAHN Knidos Die Muumlnzen des sechsten und des fuumlnfen Jahrhunderts v Chr Berlin 1970 p 164 n 462
18 For the stater coinage of Mende in the Archaic period see K REGLING ldquoMenderdquo ZfNum 34 (1924) p 7-35 at11-16 (period I) M PRICE N W AGGONER Archaic Greek Coinage The Asyut Hoard London 1975 p 44-45PTSELEKAS ldquoLate Archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidikerdquo NomKhron 21 (2002) p 17-40 at 34-36 Theattribution to Mende of a small series of staters with a lion and donkey fight on the obverse and a quartered incusesquare on the reverse [S PSOMA ldquo The lsquoLetersquo coinage reconsideredrdquo in PGVAN ALFEN (ed) Agoranomia Studiesin Money and Exchange to John H Kroll New York 2006 p 61-68 at 69 id ldquoLa Gregravece et les Balkans agrave lrsquoeacutepoquearchaique et classiquerdquo in C ALFARO A BURNETT (eds) Survey of Numismatic Research ( 1996-2001) The XIIIInternational Numismatic Congress Madrid 2003 p 39-71 at 43] is untenable
19 NOE op cit (supra n 6) p 12-33 and 45-66
20 HB MATTINGLY ldquo The fifth-century tetradrachm coinage of Maroneiardquo NumChron 160 (2000) p 261-263at 262
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
328
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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The Skione part contains staters with the Protesilaos head and the prow of a galley Thisseries of staters followed the Archaic one with a lion and stag fight on the obverse and aquartered incuse square on the reverse21 and should be dated after 48022
The single Poteidaia stater reported to be contained in the hoard in CH VIII belongs to the
Archaic period23More problematic are the twenty Athenian tetradrachms reported to be contained in thehoard only in CH VIII Their presence should be examined with caution because on onehand the information on the hoard is not fully accurate and on the other the existing hoardevidence has so far shown that the coins of Athens played a modest role in the hoards of theregion during the fifth century BC24 This is despite the economic and strategic importanceof the area for the Athenians and their bold presence there from the siege of Poteidaia in 432
till the Peace of Nikias in 422 421
The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard provides important evidence for the coin production and use inthe Chalkidike during the Pentekontaetia when all the cities of the region were members of the Delian League The later founded in 478 477 as an alliance against the Persian threathad served from the start as a vehicle for the supremacy of Athens Its maritime powerallowed Athens to control the Aegean and consequently to monitor the flow of goods and to
secure its import needs The growth of Athenian wealth and the massive production of Athenian coinage ndashin order to finance the works at the Acropolis as well as the war effortsndash placed a large amount of Athenian currency in circulation creating a widely acceptablemonetary medium throughout the Aegean and beyond25 In the Chalkidike the mints of Akanthos and Mende seem to have been striking large denominations during the period
21 For the coinage of Skione in the Archaic period see H BLOESCH ldquoDie Loumlwen von Skionerdquo SchwNumRu38 (1957)p 5-10 HA CAHN ldquoSkione-Stagira-Akanthosrdquo AntK Beiheft 9 ldquoZur Griechischen Kunstrdquo (1973) p 7-13 at 7
PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p43 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p33 and 3522 GF HILL ldquoGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1925rdquo NumChron 5th series 6 (1926) p117-136
at 122 CT SELTMAN Greek Coins London 1933 p 140 CM KRAAY Archaic and Classical Greek Coins London 1976 p134 MILDENBERG HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 11) no 1076 CC VERMEULE ldquoProtesilaosFirst to fall at Troy and hero in Northern Greece and beyondrdquo in H NILSSON (ed) Florilegium NumismaticumStudia in Honorem U Westermark Edita Stockholm 1992 p341-346 at 342 An earlier date at the end of the sixthcentury BC is proposed in CM KRAAY M HIRMER Greek Coins New York 1966 p 330 no 393 (510-500)M PRICE Coins of the Macedonians London 1974 p 13 (c 500) The period 500-480 is proposed in COMSTOCKVERMEULE op cit (supra n 13) no 44 PR FRANKE M HIRMER Die griechische Muumlnze Munich 1964 p 94no 393 GK JENKINS Ancient Greek Coins London 1990 31-32 no 71
23 For the stater coinage of Poteidaia see JA ALEXANDER ldquo The coinage of Potidaeardquo in GE MYLONAS D RAYMOND
(eds) Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson vol 2 St Louis 1951 p201-217 at 203-207 and 210-211 PRICEW AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 45-46 For the lsquopegasusrsquo issue of Poteidaia in the 430s see JHKAGANldquoEpidamnus or Ephyre (Elea) A note on the coinage of Corinth and her colonies at the outbreak of the Pelo-ponnesian Warrdquo in R ASHTON S HURTER (eds) Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop PriceLondon 1998 p 163-173 at 170
24 The only hoard with a certain Athenian component is the ldquoOlynthus 1931rdquo (IGCH 359) with a drachm among19 coins
25 Aristophanes Frogs 721-725
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[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
328
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
ON THE ldquoSKIONE 19901rdquo HOARD
[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
329
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8172019 On the lsquoSkione 1991rsquo hoard [CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4] Panagiotis Tselekas
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preceding the Peloponnesian War26 A minor production of staters has been attested fromTerone27 and Skione in the 470s The ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard is especially revealing for theproduction of these cities Beginning with Skione the number of known Protesilaos andprow staters has been increased considerably Regarding the six examples at the AthensNumismatic Museum three obverse and two reverse dies were used a strong indication thatthis coinage was produced from a few pair of dies This conclusion is s trengthened bycomparing this material with the few Skione specimens published so far As far as Akanthosand Mende are concerned the hoard produced many new obverse and reverse dies of theirstater coinage issued from the 460s down to the late 430s and 420s Despite the economicdominance of Athens and the overwhelming abundance of her ldquoowlsrdquo28 the staters of Akanthos and Mende after the 460s were not restricted to the Chalkidike They are to befound in areas further away the North Aegean region but in lesser quantities than in theprevious decades Akanthos appeared in Egypt29 East Cilicia30 and Paropamisadae31 ForMende there is the evidence of the overstrikes at Gela32 and Messene33 in Sicily
On the current certain evidence the hoard seems to contain local issues struck in 500-480
(the Mende staters with the ass and possibly the Poteidaia one) the 470s (the coins of Skione)and the late 460s and 450s (the Mende staters with Dionysos on ass and the Akanthos ones)The inclusion of coins that cover more than 40 years in the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoard suggests
that older and new issues were in circulation at the same time This case is also supported bythe ldquoKaliandra 1913rdquo hoard which consists of 400 Mende staters of the archaic and classicalperiods This practically means that the coins issued in later dates did not drive out fromcirculation the older ones rather they acted supplementary to them The notably increasedsilver production in the Chalkidike during the 480s ndashin order to meet the demands of thePersian forces in the region and the preparations of Xerxesrsquo campaign34 ndash and in the 470s
26 The ldquoElmali 1984rdquo (CH VIII (1994) 48) hoard has provided important evidence for dating the coinages of Athensrsquo allies in the area Cf MJ PRICE ldquo The coinages of the Northern Aegeanrdquo in I CARRADICE (ed) Coinageand Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires Oxford 1987 p 43-47 I CARRADICE MJ PRICE Coinage inthe Greek World London 1988 p 54-55 and 73 For a survey of the coinages of Akanthos and Mende from ca480 to the 420s see T FIGUEIRA The Power of Money Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Philadelphia 1998p138-140 (Akanthos) and 127-130 (Mende)
27 For the stater coinage of Terone during the Pentekonaetia see N HARDWICK ldquo The coinage of Terone from thefifth to the fourth centuries BCrdquo in ASHTON HURTER (eds) op cit (supra n 23) p119-134 at 124-125 and 132
28 CM KRAAY ldquoHoards small change and the origin of coinagerdquo JHS 84 (1964) p 76-91 at 83 id Greek Coinsand History London 1969 p 48 also PRICE W AGGONER op cit (supra n 18) p 14-15
29 One stater in the ldquoSakha 1897rdquo (IGCH 1639) hoard H DRESSEL ldquoAltgriechischer Muumlnzfund aus Aumlgyptenrdquo ZfNum 22 (1900) p 231-58 at 233 no2
30 Muumlnz Zentrum 103 (23-2462000) lot 25
31 One stater in the ldquoKabul1933rdquo (IGCH 1830) hoard D SCHLUMBERGER ldquoLrsquoargent grec dans lrsquoempire Acheacutemeacuteniderdquoin R CURIEL D SCHLUMBERGER (eds) Meacutemoires de la deacuteleacutegation archeacuteologique francaise en Afghanistan vol 14 Treacutesorsmoneacutetaires drsquoAfganistan Paris 1953 p 1-64 at 31-45
32 GK JENKINS The Coinage of Gela Berlin 1970 p 65 and 236 no 3434
33 M CACCAMO CALTABIANO La monetazione di Messana con le emissioni di Rhegion dellrsquoetagrave della tirannide Berlin andNew York 1993 p 256 no 3831 261 no 4188
34 It seems that the movement of Persian armies in the Balkans coincided with periods of increased output of somelocal mints See para TtradeEsectEKAtrade laquolsquosectcurrenˆOacute IcircmiddotEgrave fiOacuteOcirc˜rsquo Euml AcircUacutersaquoUgraveˆUcircEuml AcircOacutefi˜ middotUacuteOcircUcircpermilEgravefiUacuteEgraveUcircUgraveOcirc˘ OacuteOcircIgraveEgraveUcircIgravemiddotUgraveOcircIcircOcircAcircrsaquoOcirc˘raquo
OsbquoOcircIumlfi˜ 4 (2000) p 51-60 at 55 O PICARD ldquoMonnayages en Thrace agrave lrsquoeacutepoque acheacutemeacuteniderdquo in OCASABONNE(ed) Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans lrsquoAnatolie acheacutemeacutenide Varia Anatolica XII Paris 2000 p 239-253 at250-251 TSELEKAS op cit (supra n 18) p 31
Panagiotis TSELEKAS
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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injected a huge amount of coins into circulation After the Persian Wars according to currentindications most of the mints either halted their production or restricted their minting tosmaller denominations with the exceptions of Akanthos and Mende35 At the same timemost of the cities in the Chalkidike were paying tribute to Athens as this is evidenced bytheir inclusion in the tribute lists after the transfer of the treasury of the League to AthensSince most of the cities did not issue their own coinages during these years large scalepayments such as tribute may have been undertaken with available money in the form of older coins and contemporary issues of other states including ldquoowlsrdquo36
The concealment of the hoard on the basis of its Mende context should be dated after 440Some Mende staters were very similar to that overstruck at Gela where the overtype has
been dated in ca 44037 An Athenian component ndash given the fact that it actually exists ndash ledsome to argue that the hoard was deposited during the Peloponnesian War due to thequantity of lsquoowlsrsquo that should have entered the Chalkidike with the Athenian expeditionaryforces38 Thus the hoard might reflect Athenian military operations in the area beginningwith the siege of Poteidaia in the early summer of 43239 and continuing in the 420s includingthe successful siege of Skione in 42140 However this might not be the only instant whenAthenian coinage reached the area rather it could have appeared at a much earlier date Thelsquoowlsrsquo were widely accepted by the allies and Athenians would have encouraged various
payments in Attic money even before their so-called Standards (or Coinage) Decree a decreeto impose standard coinage weights and measures on Athensrsquo allies41 Still this is notsupported by the coin hoard evidence as this has been already argued earlier in this paper
In conclusion despite problems like the lack of any archaeological context inaccuracy on itsexact components its dispersal and its partial reconstruction the ldquoSkione 1990 1rdquo hoardconstitutes an important piece of historical evidence It greatly enriches the current numis-matic material thus supplementing the literary and epigraphic testimonia for our under-standing of the history of the Chalkidike during the second and third quarters of the fifthcentury BC
35 See KRAAY op cit (supra n 22) p 138
36 HARDWICK op cit (supra n 27) p 127
37 HB MATTINGLY ldquoA new light on the early silver coinage of Teosrdquo SchwNumRu 73 (1994) p 5-9 at 9 with allthe argumentation
38 S PSOMA Olynthe et les Chalcidiens de Thrace Etudes de numismatique et drsquohistoire Stuttgart 2001 p 152
39 MATTINGLY op cit (supra n 20) p 263 id ldquoCoin hoards and history rdquo NumChron 161 (2001) p 385-388at 385
40 FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 29
41 See TR MARTIN Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece Princeton 1985 p 201-203 FIGUEIRA op cit (supran 26) p 183-184 267-268 458 and 554 argues for the payment of tribute to Athenian currency Concerningthe dating of the decree the early 440s and 420s are the two most popular periods in which to place the decreeSee the survey of FIGUEIRA op cit (supra n 26) p 431-465 who favors the early date For the later date seeCWFORNARA LJ SAMONS Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Berkeley 1991 p 98-102 H MATTINGLY The
Athenian Empire Restored Epigraphic and Historical Studies Ann Arbor 1996 For a more recent discussion on the
decree see LJ SAMONS II Empire of the Owl Athenian Imperial Finance Historia Einzelschriften142 Stuttgard 2000p 329-331 L KALLET Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides The Sicilian Expedition and its AftermathBerkeley 2001 p 205-225 who argues for a date in ca 414
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[CH VIII (1994) 63 CH IX (2002) 4]
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