Conveners
S13. GREECE 13. PELOPONNESE
- Kenneth Sheedy (ACANS, Macquarie University)
A number of Peloponnesian coins of the 4th and 3rd century BC have been ascribed to the Arcadian Koinon, which flourished between 370 and 362 BC. They not only include the very well known staters and triobols with depictions of Zeus and Pan, but also smaller denominations ranging from obols to bronzes. With the exception of the staters and triobols these coins have been studied so far only...
The federal Achaian coinage of the Hellenistic period was produced in a civic framework, in silver of lesser quality than that of the coins of central Greece and the Aetolian koinon. New elements on the monetary history of the Aetolian koinon will be presented. The results of LA-ICP-MS elemental analyses of Achaian and Aeolian coins in the Bibliothèque nationale de France will be compared with...
In his catalogue (1927) of the coinage of Demetrios Poliorketes, Edward T. Newell was unable to assign to a mint a substantial body of bronze issues (Newell nos. 162-174), whose characteristic types were a youthful male Head in Corinthian helmet r./ BA, Prow r. On grounds of control iconography and die axis, Newell tentatively assigned these issues to a royal mint in Karia or nearby regions of...
