Conveners
S01. GREECE 1. GENERAL: GREECE 1. GENERAL
- Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
To understand the early stages of coinage I study the relation between building activities and the origins of minting. Already in 2000 Kenneth Sheedy concluded that there was a link between Parian coin production and building activities of the Parians. Was Paros an exception or was there a structural link between public building and coinage? To answer that question, the investigations...
Many mines had been in use over several millennia but most ancient workings have been damaged and jumbled by the more recent extraction phases and have become exceedingly difficult to identify and date. For silver mines, isotopes offer a unique opportunity to resolve this conundrum. Over 95% of the 109Ag/107Ag ratios measured in silver coins from different origins, such as Ancient Greece and...
A significant number of coin hoards dated to the period 550-350 BC is kept at the Hellenic Numismatic Museum, attesting the long history of the city-states’ consolidation. These hoards are of a major importance since most of them were found in an archaeological context or at least, their findspot and conditions are known in a certain degree.
The aim of this paper is to present this material,...
