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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
XIVth INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATIC CONGRESS
GLASGOW 2009
Edited by
Nicholas Holmes
GLASGOW 2011
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PrefaceEditor’s note
Inaugural lecture
‘A foreigner’s view of the coinage of Scotland’, by Nicholas MAYHEW
Antiquity: Greek
I Delfini (distribuzione, associazioni, valenza simbolica), by Pasquale APOLITO
Lessons from a (bronze) die study, by Donald T. ARIEL
Le monete incuse a leggenda Pal-Mol : una verifica della documentazione
disponibile, by Marta BARBATO
Up-to-date survey of the silver coinage of the Nabatean king Aretas IV, by RachelBARKAY
Remarks on monetary circulation in the chora of Olbia Pontica – the case ofKoshary, by Jarosław BODZEK
The ‘colts’ of Corinth revisited: a note on Corinthian drachms from Ravel’sPeriod V, by Lee L. BRICE
Not only art! The period of the ‘signing masters’ and ‘historical iconography’,by Maria CACCAMO CALTABIANO
Les monnaies pr éromaines de BB’T-BAB(B)A de Mauretanie, by LaurentCALLEGARIN & Abdelaziz EL KHAYARI
Mode iconografiche e determinazioni delle cronologie nell’occidente ellenistico,by Benedetto CARROCCIO
La phase postarcha ï que du monnayage de Massalia, by Jean-AlbertCHEVILLON
A new thesis for Siglos and Dareikos, by Nicolas A. CORFÙ
Heroic cults in northern Sicily between numismatics and archaeology, byAntonio CRISÀ
La politica estera tolemaica e l’area del Mar Nero: l’iconografia numismaticacome fonte storica, by Angela D’ARRIGO
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New light on the Larnaca hoard IGCH 1272, by Anne DESTROOPER-GEORGIADES
The coinage of the Scythian kings in the West Pontic area: iconography, by Dimitar DRAGANOV
The ‘royal archer’ and Apollo in the East: Greco-Persian iconography in theSeleukid Empire, by Kyle ERICKSON & Nicholas L. WRIGHT
ὖ ὰ ῖ ῖ . Retour sur les critères quidéfinissent habituellement les ‘imitations’ Athéniennes, by Chr. FLAMENT
On the gold coinage of ancient Chersonese (46-133 AD), by N.A. FROLOVA
Propaganda on coins of Ptolemaic queens, by Agnieszka FULIŃSKA
Osservazioni sui rinvenimenti di monete dagli scavi archeologici dell’anticaCaulonia, by Giorgia GARGANO
La circulation monétaire à Argos d’apr ès les monnaies de fouille de l’ÉFA(École française d’Athènes), by Catherine GRANDJEAN
Silver denominations and standards of the Bosporan cities, by JeanHOURMOUZIADIS
Seleucid ‘eagles’ from Tyre and Sidon: preliminary results of a die-study, byPanagiotis P. IOSSIF
Archaic Greek coins east of the Tigris: evidence for circulation?, by J. KAGAN
Parion history from coins, by Vedat KELEŞ
Regional mythology: the meanings of satyrs on Greek coins, by Ann-MarieKNOBLAUCH
The chronology of the Hellenistic coins of Thessaloniki, Pella and Amphipolis,by Theodoros KOUREMPANAS
The coinage of Chios during the Hellenistic and early Roman periods, by Constantine LAGOS
Évidence numismatique de l’existence d’Antioche en Troade, by Dincer SavasLENGER
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Hallazgo de un conjunto monetal de Gadir en la necr ó polis Feno-Púnica delos cuarteles de Varela, Cádiz, España, by Urbano LÓPEZ RUIZ & Ana Mar í aRUIZ TINOCO
Gold and silver weight standards in fourth-century Cyprus: a resume, by Evangeline MARKOU
Göttliche Herrscherin – herrschende Göttin? Frauenbildnisse auf hellenistischenMünzen, by Katharina MARTIN
Melkart-Herakles y sus distintas advocaciones en la Bética costera, by ElenaMORENO PULIDO
Some remarks concerning the gold coins with the legend ‘ΚΟΣΩΝ’, by LucianMUNTEANU
‘Une monnaie grecque inédite: un triobole d’Argos en Argolide’, by EleniPAPAEFTHYMIOU
The coinage of the Paeonian kings Leon and Dropion, by Eftimija PAVLOVSKA
Le tr ésor des monnaies perses d’or trouvé à Argamum / Orgamé (Jurilovca, dép.de Tulcea, Roumanie), by E. PETAC, G. TALMAŢCHI & V. IONIŢĂ
The imitations of late Thasian tetradrachms: chronology, classification anddating, by Ilya S. PROKOPOV
Moneta e discorso politico: emissioni monetarie in Cirenaica tra il 321 e il 258a.C., by Daniela Bessa PUCCINI
Tesoros sertorianos en España: problemas y nuevas perspectivas, by IsabelRODRÍGUEZ CASANOVA
‘Ninfa’ eponima grande dea? Caratteri e funzioni delle personificazioni cittadine,by Grazia SALAMONE
The coin finds from Hellenistic and Roman Berytas (fourth century BC – thirdcentury AD, by Ziad SAWAYA
Monetazione incusa magnogreca: destinazione e funzioni, by Rosa SCAVINO
Uso della moneta presso gli indigeni della Sicilia centro-meridionale, by LaviniaSOLE
La moneta di Sibari: struttura e metrologia, by Emanuela SPAGNOLI
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Le stephanophoroi prima delle stephanophoroi, by Marianna SPINELLI
Weight adjustment al marco in antiquity, and the Athenian decadrachm, by CliveSTANNARD
The Magnesian hoard: a preliminary report, by Oğuz TEKIN
Zur Datierung und Deutung der Beizeichen auf Stateren von Górtyn, by Burkhard TRAEGER
Aspetti della circolazione monetaria in area basso adriatica, by AdrianaTRAVAGLINI & Valeria Giulia CAMILLERI
La polisemia di Apollo attraverso il documento monetale, by Maria DanielaTRIFIRÒ
Thraco-Macedonian coins: the evidence from the hoards, by Alexandros R.A.TZAMALIS
The pattern of findspots of coins of Damastion: a clue to its location, by Dubravka UJES MORGAN
The civic bronze coins of the Eleans: some preliminary remarks, by FranckWOJAN
The hoard of Cyzicenes from the settlement of Patraeus (Taman peninsula), by E.V. ZAKHAROV
Antiquity: Roman
The coinage of Diva Faustina I, by Martin BECKMANN
Coin finds from the Dutch province of North-Holland (Noord-Holland).Chronological and geographical distribution and function of Roman coins fromthe Dutch part of Barbaricum, by Paul BELIËN
The key to the Varus defeat: the Roman coin finds from Kalkriese, by FrankBERGER
Monetary circulation in the Bosporan Kingdom in the Roman period c. first -fourth century AD, by Line BJERG
The Roman coin hoards of the second century AD found on the territory of present-day Serbia: the reasons for their burial, by Bojana BORIĆ-BREŠKOVIĆ
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Die Münzpr ägung des Thessalischen Bundes von Marcus Aurelius bis Gallienus(161-268 n. Chr.), by Friedrich BURRER
The denarius in the first century, by K. BUTCHER & M. PONTING
Coinage and coin circulation in Nicopolis of Epirus: a preliminary report, by Dario CALOMINO
La piazza porticata di Egnazia: la documentazione numismatica, by RaffaellaCASSANO, Adriana TRAVAGLINI & Alessandro CRISPINO
Dallo scavo al museo: un ripostiglio monetale di età antonina del IV municipiodi Roma (Italia), by Francesca CECI
I rinvenimenti dal Tevere: la monetazione della Diva Faustina, by AlessiaCHIAPPINI
Analytical evidence for the organization of the Alexandrian mint during theTetrarchy (III-IV centuries AD), by J.M.COMPANA, L. LEÓN-REINA, F.J.FORTES, L.M. CABALÍN, J.J. LASERNA, & M.A.G. ARANDA
L’Oriente Ligoriano: fonti, luoghi, mirabilia, by Arianna D’OTTONE
Le emissioni isiache: quale rapporto con il navigium Isidis?, by Sabrina DEPACE
A centre of aes rude production in southern Etruria : La Castellina
(Civitavecchia, Roma), by Almudena DOMÍNGUEZ-ARRANZ & Jean GRAN-AYMERICH
Perseus and Andromeda in Alexandria: explaining the popularity of the myth inthe culture of the Roman Empire, by Melissa Barden DOWLING
Les fractions du nummus frappées à Rome et à Ostie sous le r ègne de Maxence(306-312 ap. J.C.), by V. DROST
Monuments on the move: architectural coin types and audience targeting in theFlavian and Trajanic periods, by Nathan T. ELKINS
‘The restoration of memory: Minucius and his monument’ by Jane DeRoseEVANS
La circulation monétaire à Lyon de la fondation de la colonie à la mort deSeptime Sévère (43 av. – 211 apr. J.C.): premiers résultats, by Jonas FLUCK
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Le monnayage en orichalque romain: apport des expérimentations auxétudes numismatiques, by Arwen GAFFIERO, Arnaud SUSPÈNE, FlorianTÉREYGEOL & Bernard GRATUZE
New coins of pre- and denarial system minted outside Italy, by Paz GARCÍA-BELLIDO
Les bronzes d’Octave à la proue et à la tête de bélier (RPC 533) attribués àToulouse-Tolosa: nouvelles découvertes, by Vincent GENEVIÈVE
Crustumerium, Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy): textile traces from a Romancoins hoard, by Maria Rita GIULIANI, Ida Anna RAPINESI, Francesco DIGENNARO, Daniela FERRO, Heli ARIMA, Ulla RAJANA & Francesca CECI
Deux médaillons d’Antonin le Pieux du territoire de Pautalia (Thrace), by Valentina GRIGOROVA-GENCHEVA
Mars and Venus on Roman imperial coinage in the time of Marcus Aurelius:iconological considerations with special reference to the emperor’scorrespondence with Marcus Cornelius Fronto, by Jürgen HAMER
The silver coins of Aegeae in the light of Hadrian’s eastern silver coinages, by F.HAYMANN
The coin-images of the later soldier-emperors and the creation of a Romanempire of late antiquity, by Ragnar HEDLUND
Coinage and currency in ancient Pompeii, by Richard HOBBS
Imitations in gold, by Helle W. HORSNÆS
Un geste de Caracalla sur une monnaie frappée à Pergame, by Antony HOSTEIN
New data on monetary circulation in northern Illyricum in the fifth century, by Vujadin IVANIŠEVIĆ & Sonja STAMENKOVIĆ
Die augusteischen Münzmeisterpr ägungen: IIIviri monetales im Spannungsfeldzwischen Republik und Kaiserzeit, by Alexa KÜTER
Imperial representation during the reign of Valentinian III, by Aládar KUUN
The Nome coins: some remarks on the state of research, by Katarzyna LACH
Le monnayage de Brutus et Cassius a pr ès la mort de César, by RaphaëlleLAIGNOUX
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L’ultima emissione di Cesare Ottaviano: alcune considerazioni sulle recenti proposte cronologiche, by Fabiana LANNA
Claudius’s issue of silver drachmas in Alexandria: Serapis Anastole, by BarbaraLICHOCKA
La chronologie des émissions monétaires de Claude II: ateliers de Milan etSiscia, by Jérôme MAIRAT
La circulation monétaire à Strasbourg (France) et sur le Rhin supérieur aupremier siècle après J.-C., by Stéphane MARTIN
The double solidus of Magnentius, by Alenka MIŠKEC
A hoard of bronze coins of the third century BC found at Pratica di Mare(Rome), by Maria Cristina MOLINARI
Un conjunto de plomos monetiformes de procendencia hispana de la colecciónantigua del Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid), by Bartolomé MORASERRANO
Monete e ritualitá funeraria in epoca romana imperiale: il sepolcreto dei Fadieni (Ferrara – Italia), by Anna Lina MORELLI
Il database Monete al femminile, by Anna Lina MORELLI & Erica FILIPPINI
La trouvaille monétaire de Bex-Sous-Vent (VD, Suisse): une nouvelle analyse,
by Yves MUHLEMANN
Die Sammlung von Lokalmythen griechischer Städte des Ostens: ein Projekt derKommission f ür alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, by Johannes NOLLÉ
Plomos monetiformes con leyenda ibérica Baitolo, hallados en la ciudad romanade Baetulo (Hispania Tarraconensis), by Pepita PADRÓS MARTÍ, DanielVÁZQUEZ & Francesc ANTEQUERA
I denari serrati della repubblica romana: alcune considerazioni, by AndreaPANCOTTI & Patrizia CALABRIA
Monetary circulation in late antique Rome: a fifth-century context coming fromthe N.E. slope of the Palatine Hill. A preliminary report, by Giacomo PARDINI
Securitas e suoi attributi: lo sviluppo di una iconografia, by Rossella PERA
Could the unof ficial mint called ‘Atelier II’ be identified with the of ficinae ofChâteaubleau (France)?, by Fabien PILON
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Coin finds from Elaiussa Sebaste (Cilicia Tracheia), by Annalisa POLOSA
El poblamiento romano en el área del Mar Menor (Ager Carthaginensis): unaaproximación a partir de los recientes hallazgos numismáticos, by AlfredoPORRÚA MARTÍNEZ & Elvira NAVARRO SANTA-CRUZ
The presence of local deities on Roman Palestinian coins: reflections oncultural and religious interaction between Romans and local elites, by VagnerCarvalheiro PORTO
The male couple: iconography and semantics, by Mariangela PUGLISI
Countermarks on the Republican and Augustan brass coins in the south-easternAlps, by Andrej RANT
A stone thesaurus with a votive coin deposit found in the sanctuary of Campo
della Fiera, Orvieto (Volsinii), by Samuele RANUCCI
L’image du pouvoir impériale de Trajan et son évolution idéologique: étude desfrappes monétaires aux types d’Hercule, Jupiter et Soleil, by Laurent RICCARDI
The inflow of Roman coins to the east-of-the-Vistula Mazovia ( Mazowsze) andPodlachia ( Podlasie), by Andrzej ROMANOWSKI
Numismatics and archaeology in Rome: the finds from the Basilica Hilariana,by Alessia ROVELLI
Communicating a consecratio: the deification coinage of Faustina I, by ClareROWAN
An alleged hoard of third-century Alexandrian tetradrachms, by Adriano SAVIO& Alessandro CAVAGNA
Some notes on religious embodiments in the coinage of Roman Syria andMesopotamia, by Philipp SCHWINGHAMMER
Roman provincial coins in the money circulation of the south-eastern Alpinearea and western Pannonia, by Andrej ŠEMROV
Recenti rinvenimenti dal Tevere (1): introduzione, by Patrizia SERAFIN
Recenti rinvenimenti dal Tevere (2): la moneta di Vespasiano tra tradizione edinnovazione, by Alessandra SERRA
A hoard of denarii and early Roman Messene, by Kleanthis SIDIROPOULOS
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La ‘corona radiata’ sui ritratti dei bronzi imperiali alessandrini, by GiovanniMaria STAFFIERI
The iconography of two groups of struck lead from Central Italy and Baetica inthe second and first centuries BC, by Clive STANNARD
Monete della zecca di Frentrum, Larinum e Pallanum, by Napoleone STELLUTI
Personalized victory on coins: the Year of the Four Emperors – Greek imperialissues, by Yannis STOYAS
Les monnaies d’or d’Auguste: l’apport des analyses élémentaires et le problèmede l’atelier de N î mes, by Arnaud SUSPÈNE, Maryse BLET-LEMARQUAND &Michel AMANDRY
The popularity of the enthroned type of Asclepius on Peloponnesian coins of
imperial times, by Christina TSAGKALIA
Gold and silver first tetrarchic issues from the mint of Alexandria, by D. ScottVANHORN
Note sulla circolazione monetaria in Etruria meridionale nel III secolo a.C., byDaniela WILLIAMS
Roman coins from the western part of West Balt territory, by Anna ZAPOLSKA
Antiquity: Celtic
La moneda ibérica del nordeste de la Hispania Citerior : consideraciones sobresu cronologí a y función, by Marta CAMPO
Les bronzes à la gueule de loup du Berry: essai de typochronologie, by PhilippeCHARNOTET
Les imitations de l’obole de Marseille de LTD1/LTD2A (IIe s. / Ier s. av. J.C.)entre les massifs des Alpes et du Jura, by Anne GEISER
Le monnayage à la légende TOGIRIX: une nouvelle approche, by Anne GEISER& Julia GENECHESI
Trading with silver bullion during the third century BC: the hoard of Armuña deTajuña, by Manuel GOZALBES, Gonzalo CORES & Pere Pau RIPOLLÈS
Données expérimentales sur la fabrication de quinaires gaulois fourrés, by Katherine GRUEL, Dominique LACOSTE, Carole FRARESSO, MichelPERNOT & François ALLIER
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Pre-Roman coins from Sotin, by Mato ILKIĆ
Les monnaies gauloises trouvées à Paris, by Sté phane MARTIN
Die keltischen Münzen vom Oberleiserberg (Nieder österreich), by Jiři MILITKÝ
New coin finds from the two late Iron Age settlements of Altenburg (Germany)and Rheinau (Switzerland) – a military coin series on the German-Swiss border?,by Michael NICK
Le dépôt monétaire gaulois de Laniscat (Côtes-d’Armor): 547 monnaies de bastitre. Étude préliminaire, by Sylvia NIETO-PELLETIER, Bernard GRATUZE &Gérard AUBIN
Antiquity: general
La moneda en el mundo funerario-ritual de Gadir-Gades, by A. AR ÉVALOGONZÁLEZ
Neues Licht auf eine alte Frage? Die Verwandschaft von Münzen und Gemmen,by Angela BERTHOLD
Tipi del cane e del lupo sulle monete del Mediterraneo antico, by AlessandraBOTTARI
Not all these things are easy to read, much less to understand: new approaches toreading images on ancient coins, by Geraldine CHIMIRRI-RUSSELL
The collection of ancient coins in the Ossoliński National Institute in Lvov(1828-1944), by Adam DEGLER
Preliminary notes on Phoenician and Punic coins kept in the Pushkin Museum,by S. KOVALENKO & L.I. MANFREDI
Greek coins from the National Historical Museum of Rio de Janeiro: SNG project, by Marici Martins MAGALHÃES
La catalogazione delle emissioni di Commodo nel Codice Ligoriano, by RosaMaria NICOLAI
The sacred life of coins: cult fees, sacred law and numismatic evidence, by Isabelle A. PAFFORD
Anton Prokesch-Osten and the Greek coins of the coin collection at theUniversalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria, by Karl PEITLER
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Monete ed anelli: cronologia, tipologie, fruitori, by Claudia PERASSI
Il volume 21 delle Antichit á Romane di Pirro Ligorio ‘Libri delle Medaglie daCesare a Marco Aurelio Commodo’ , by Patrizia SERAFIN
Greek and Roman coins in the collection of the Çorum Museum, by D. ÖzlemYALCIN
Mediaeval and modern western (mediaeval)
The exchanges in the city of London, 1344-1358, by Martin ALLEN
Fribourg en Nuithonie: faciès monétaire d’une petite ville au centre de l’Europe,by Anne-Francine AUBERSON
Die Pegauer Brakteatenpr ägung Abt Siegfrieds von Rekkin (1185-1223):
Kriterien zu deren chronologischer Einordnung, by Jan-Erik BECKER
Die recutting in the eleventh-century Polish coinage, by Mateusz BOGUCKI
Le retour à l’or au treizième siècle: le cas de Montpellier (...1244-1246...), by Marc BOMPAIRE & Pierre-Joan BERNARD
Le monete a leggenda ΠAN e le emissioni arabo-bizantine. I dati dello scavo diAntinoupolis / El Sheikh Abada, by Daniele CASTRIZIO
Scavi di Privernum e Fossanova (Latina, Italia): monete tardoantiche,
medioevale e moderne, by Francesca CECI & Margherita CANCELLIERI
La aportación de los hallazgos monetarios a ‘la crisis del siglo XIV’ en Cataluña,by Maria CLUA I MERCADAL
Norwegian bracteates during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, by Linn EIKJE
Donative pennies in Viking-age Scandinavia?, by Fr édéric ELFVER
Carolingian capitularies as a source for the monetary history of the Frankishempire, by Hubert EMMERIG
Ulf Candidatus, by G. EMSØY
Münzen des Moskauer Grossf ürstentums. Das Geld von Dmitrij IvanowitschDonskoj (1359-1389) (ü ber die Ver öffentlichung der ersten Ausgabe des ‘Korpusder russischen Münzen des 14-15. Jhs.’), by P. GAIDUKOV & I. GRISHIN
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Brakteatenpr ägungen in Mähren in der zweiten Hälfte des dreizehntenJahrhunderts, by Dagmar GROSSMANNOVÁ Monetisation in medieval Scandinavia, by Svein H. GULLBEKK
A mancus apparently marked on behalf of King Offa: genuine or fake?, by Wolfgang HAHN
Among farmers and city people: coin use in early medieval Denmark, c. 1000-1250, by Gitte Tarnow INGVARDSON
Was pseudo-Byzantine coinage primarily of municipal origin?, by CharlieKARUKSTIS
Interpreting single finds in medieval England – the secondary lives of coins, byRichard KELLEHER
Byzantine coins from the area of Belarus, by Krystyna LAVYSH & MarcinWOŁOSZYN
Die fr üheste Darstellung des Richters auf einer mittelalterlicher Münze?, by IvarLEIMUS
Coinage and money in the ‘years of insecurity’: the case of late ByzantineChalkidiki (thirteenth - fourteenth century), by Vangelis MALADAKIS
Nota sulla circolazione monetaria tardoantica nel Lazio meridionale: i reperti di
S. Ilario ad bivium, by Flavia MARANI
The money of the First Crusade: the evidence of a new parcel and itsimplications, by Michael MATZKE
Ü berlegungen zum ‘Habsburger Urbar’ als Quelle f ür Währungsgeschichte, by Samuel NUSSBAUM
Schilling Kennisbergisch slages of Grand Master Louis of Ehrlichshausen, by Borys PASZKIEWICZ
Un diner de Jaime I el conquistador en el Mar Menor: evidencias de presenciaaragonesa en el Campo de Cartagena durante la Baja Edad Media, by Alfredo PORRÚA MARTÍNEZ & Alfonso ROBLES FERNÁNDEZ
L’atelier de faux-monnayeur de Rovray (VD, Suisse), by Carine RAEMYTOURNELLE
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La ubicación de las casas de moneda en le Europa medieval. El caso del reino deLeón, by Antonio ROMA VALDÉS
New perspectives on Norwegian Viking-age hoards c. 1000: the Bore hoardrevisited, by Elina SCREEN
The discovery of a hoard of coins dated to the fifth and sixth centuries inKlapavice in the hinterland of ancient Salona, by Tomislav ŠEPAROVIĆ
A model for the analysis of coins lost in Norwegian churches, by Christian J.SIMENSEN
A clippe from Femern, by Jørgen SØMOD
The convergence of coinages in the late medieval Low Countries, by PeterSPUFFORD
A perplexing hoard of Lusignan coins from Polis, Cyprus, by Alan M. STAHL,Gerald POIRIER & Nan YAO
OTTO / ODDO and ADELHEIDA / ATHALHET - onomatological aspectsof German coin types of the tenth and eleventh centuries, by SebastianSTEINBACH
Bulles de plomb et les monnaies en Pologne au XIIe siècle, by StanislawSUCHODOLSKI
Palaeologian coin findings of Kusadasi, Kadikalesi/Anaia and their reflections.by Ceren ÜNAL
The hoard of Tetí n (Czech Republic) in the light of currency conditions inthirteenth-century Bohemia, by Roman ZAORAL & Jiři MILITKÝ
The circulation of foreign coins in Poland in the fifteenth century, by MichalZAWADZKI
Mediaeval and modern Western (modern)
Die neuzeitliche Münzstätte im Schloss Haldenstein bei Chur Gr, Schweiz, by Rahel C. ACKERMANN
The money box system for savings in Amsterdam, 1907-1935, by G.N. BORST
Four ducats coins of Franz Joseph I (1848-1916) of Austria: their use in jewellery and some hitherto unpublished imitations, by Aleksandar N. BRZIC
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A king as Hercules in the modern Polish coinage, by Witold GARBAZCEWSKI
The monetary areas in Piedmont during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries: astarting point for new investigations, by Luca GIANAZZA
Coin hoards in the United States, by John M. KLEEBERG
The transfer of minting techniques to Denmark in the nineteenth century, by Michael MÄRCHER
Patrimonio Numismático Iberoamericano: un proyecto del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, by Carmen MARCOS ALONSO & Paloma OTERO MORÁN
Moneda local durante la guerra civil española: billete emitido por elayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar, Murcia, by Federico MARTÍNEZPASTOR & Alfredo PORRÚA MARTÍNEZ
Coins and monetary circulation in the Legnica-Brzeg duchy: rudimentary problems, by Robert PIE ŃKOWSKI
Representaciones del café en el acervo de numismática del Museu Paulista -USP , by Angela Maria Gianeze RIBEIRO
Freiburg im Üechtland und die Münzreformen der französischen K önige (1689-1726), by Nicole SCHACHER
La aparición de la marca de valor en la moneda valenciana, ¿1618 o 1640? Una
nueva hipótesis de trabajo, by Juan Antonio SENDRA IBÁÑEZ
Devotion and coin-relics in early modern Italy, by Lucia TRAVAINI
The political context of the origin and the exportation of thaler-coins fromJáchymov (Joachimsthal) in the first half of the sixteenth century, by PetrVOREL
The late sixteenth-century Russian forged kopecks, which were ascribed to theEnglish Muscovy Company, by Serguei ZVEREV
Oriental and African coinages
The meaning of the character寳 bao in the legends of Chinese cash coins, by Vladimir A. BELYAEV & Sergey V. SIDOROVICH
Three unpublished Indo-Sasanian coin hoards, Government Museum, Mathura,by Pratipal BHATIA
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Oriental coins in the Capitoline Museums (Rome): further researches onStanzani Collection history, by Arianna D’OTTONE
The king, the princes and the Raj, by Sanjay GARG
The first evidence of a mint at Miknāsa: two unpublished Almoravid coins, adirham and a dinar, of the year 494H/1100, by Tawfiq IBRAHIM
L’âge d’or de la numismatique en Chine: l’exemple du Catalogue des Monnaies Anciennes de Li Zuoxian, by Lyce JANKOWSKI
Numismatic research in Japan today: coins, paper monies and patterns of usage.Paper money in early modern Japan: economic and folkloristic aspects, by Keiichiro KATO
The gold reform of Ghazan Khan, by Judith KOLBAS
A study of medieval Chinese coins from Karur and Madurai in Tamil Nadu, by KRISHNAMURTHY RAMASUBBAIYER
Latest contributions to the numismatic history of Central Asia (late eighteenth –nineteenth century), by Vladimir NASTICH
Silver fragments of unique Būyid and Ḥamdānid coins and their role in the Kelč hoard (Czech Republic), by Vlastimil NOVÁK
Numismatic evidence for the location of Saray, the capital of the Golden Horde,
by A.V. PACHKALOV
Le regard des voyageurs sur les monnaies africaines du XVI e au XIXe siècles, by Josette RIVALLAIN
Les imitations des dirhems carrés almohades: apport des analyses élémentaires,by A. TEBOULBI, M. BOMPAIRE & M. BLET-LEMARQUAND
À propos du monnayage de Kiến Phúc (1883-1884), by François THIERRY
Glass jetons from Sicily: new find evidence from the excavations at Monte Iato,by Christian WEISS
Medals
Joseph Kowarzik (1860-1911): ein Medailleur der Jahrhundertwende, by Kathleen ADLER
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Numismatic memorials of breeding trotting horses (based on the collection ofthe numismatic department of the Hermitage), by L.I. DOBROVOLSKAYA
De retrato a arquetipo: anotaciones sobre la difusión de la efigie de Juan VIIIPaleólogo en la peninsula Ibérica, by Albert ESTRADA-RIUS
Titon du Tillet e le medaglie del Parnasse François, by Paola GIOVETTI
Bedrohung und Schutz der Erde: Positionen zur Umweltproblematik in derdeutschen Medaillenkunst der Gegenwart, by Rainer GRUND
The rediscovery of the oldest private medal collection of the Netherlands, by JanPELSDONK
Twentieth-century British campaign medals: a continuation of the nineteenthcentury?, by Phyllis STODDART and Keith SUGDEN
‘Shines with unblemished honour’: some thoughts on an early nineteenth-century medal, by Tuukka TALVIO
General numismatics
Dall’iconografia delle monete antiche all’ideologia della nazione future. Proiezioni della numismatica grecista di D’Annunzio sulla nuova monetazione
Sabauda, by Giuseppe ALONZO
Didaktisch-methodische Aspekte der Numismatik in der Schule, by Szymon
BERESKA
The Count of Caylus (1692-1765) and the study of ancient coins, by François deCALLATAŸ
Le monete di Lorenzo il Magnifico in un manoscritto di Angelo Poliziano, by Fiorenzo CATALLI
Coinage and mapping, by Thomas FAUCHER
Classicism and coin collections in Brazil, by Maria Beatriz BorbaFLORENZANO
A prosopography of the mint of ficials: the Eligivs database and its evolution, by Luca GIANAZZA
Elementary statistical methods in numismatic metrology, by DagmarGROSSMANNOVÁ & Jan T. STEFAN
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Les collections numismatiques du Musée archéologique de Dijon (France), byJacques MEISSONNIER
Bank of Greece: the numismatic collections, by Eleni PAPAEFTHYMIOU
Foundation of the Hellenic World. A new private collection open to the public,by Eleni PAPAEFTHYMIOU
Re-discovering coins: publication of the numismatic collections in Bulgarianmuseums – a new project, by Evgeni PAUNOV, Ilya PROKOPOV & SvetoslavaFILIPOVA
„Census of Ancient Coins Known in the Renaissance“, by Ulrike PETER
Le sel a servi de moyen d’échange, by J.A. SCHOONHEYT
The international numismatic library situation and the foundation of theInternational Numismatic Libraries’ Network (INLN), by Ans TER WOERDS
The Golden Fleece in Britain, by R.H. THOMPSON
Das Museum August Kestner in Hannover: Neues aus der Münzsammlung, by Simone VOGT
From the electrum to the Euro: a journey into the history of coins. A multimedia presentation by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, by Eleni ZAPITI
Highlights from the Museum of the George and Nefeli Giabra PieridesCollection, donated by Clio and Solon Triantafyllides: coins and artefacts, by Eleni ZAPITI & Evangeline MARKOU
Index of Contributors
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1 IGCH, p. 243.
2 Kagan 1994, pp. 36ff.
3 IGCH 1790; the author would like to thank Andrew Meadows for making
available the manuscript of his forthcoming republication of the hoard.
4 Schlumberger 1953, pp. 31ff. = IGCH 1830.
ARCHAIC GREEK COINS EAST OF THE TIGRIS:
EVIDENCE FOR CIRCULATION?
J. KAGAN
In the landmark 1973 publication An Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards only one archaic Greek
coin find east of the Euphrates was known. That was the deposit in the Foundation of the Apadana
in Persepolis (IGCH 1789). The authors went on to say that that deposit ‘served a very special
purpose and has nothing to do with monetary circulation’.1 I took issue with this in publishing
CH.VIII.19, a sixth-century hoard from the eastern Levant that contained a similar mix to that
deposited at Persepolis. Early coins of Aegina, Abdera and Cyprus were found together in both
hoards. My point was that the mix of silver coins found at Persepolis could well represent a cir-
culating sample.2
While there is similarity in composition, the Levantine hoard most probably came from some-
where near the eastern Mediterranean coast. It does not tell us how frequently Greek coins trav-
elled beyond Mesopotamia in archaic times. Before looking at some exciting new evidence, it is
worth surveying the known archaic coins with eastern pedigrees. There exist three important and
remarkably similar Eastern hoards with burial dates in the last quarter of the fifth century that
bear discussion.
Largest of these is the Malayer Hoard, found in 1934 65km SE of ancient Ecbatana, that thanks
to the efforts of Andrew Meadows and the cooperation of the National Museum in Teheran will
shortly receive its long overdue proper publication. The find consisted of almost 400 coins, with
Athens making up slightly over 40%. There is only one siglos, proving as has long been noted that
sigloi did not play a special role in the monetary system in the Eastern Persian Empire in this pe-
riod. There are coins from the Levant, including 138 coins from Tyre and Sidon and three Cypriot
coins. The hoard closed in c. 425. There are, however, a few archaic coins worth noting includingtwo Corcyrean coins. One of the chopped Athenian tetradrachms is archaic as are three of the
Aeginetan turtles. The solitary stater from Corinth is an early Pegasus / Aphrodite type with a late
archaic date. Naxos is represented by a fragmentary sixth-century stater with the ivy wreath. Also
archaic is the solitary coin of Clazomenae, a lion head / divided incuse square coin from Caria,
most probably Mylasa, one of the Lycian staters with the boar obverse and rough incuse and finally
the five coins from Cyrenaica.3
The next two remarkably similar hoards come from Afghanistan. The 1933 Cabul hoard pub-
lished by Schlumberger consisted of over 115 coins, with significant overlap with the Malayer
hoard. Athens again is the largest group, with 33 recorded tetradrachms compared to eight sigloi.
In addition to the worn archaic stater of Aegina, a fragmentary stater of Thasos and a worn Chiot
stater may be archaic. There are two well-preserved early classical tetradrachms from Acanthusand an early classical stater of Corcyra. Again there is a significant Levantine component repre-
sented by coins from Pamphylia, Cilicia and Cyprus, though nothing from Phoenicia. 4 The early
Cilician coins probably date the hoard slightly later than the Malayer hoard.
The 1966 hoard said to have been found in Balkh, ancient Bactra, complements the group.
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5 Troxell / Spengler 1969, pp. 1-19 = IGCH 1820.
6 Bopearachchi / Rahman 1995, p. 78.
7 The author intends to publish the hoard fully in a forthcoming AJN;
because of the different sources of photographs, some of the illustrations
may not be to scale.
8 CAH 2nd IV, p. 179.
9 See Kagan 1994 for hoard bibliography.
It consisted of more than 170 coins with the bulk - over 150 - being Athenian. No sigloi were
recorded, but 11 of the 16 recorded non-Athenian coins are from Cilicia, Cyprus and Phoenicia.
In addition to a worn archaic Aeginetan stater, there is a late archaic coin of Lete (Berge) and a
unique Thraco-Macedonian coin of a horseman that might also be archaic. Intriguingly for what
we will discuss next, the publishers of this hoard recorded a group of three well-preserved Thraco-
Macedonian archaic coins which may or more probably may not be related to the above find: a
stater of Dicaea and Stagira from the sixth century and a late archaic tetradrachm of Acanthus. 5
Interestingly a slightly later stater of Stagira with the lion attacking the boar obverse and an early
fifth-century stater of Paros were found recently in Afghanistan, possibly as part of a large, much
later hoard found at Ai Khanoum.6 Yet another slightly earlier Stagira was reportedly the earliest
coin from the large well hoard at Mir Zahke.
It is tempting to see evidence here that some of these archaic Greek coins found their way to
Afghanistan shortly after their minting. All the hoards mentioned are notable in that the coins are
not as often test cut or turned into fragments as one is accustomed to in hoards found in Egypt
and the Levant. With this as background, the discovery in this region of a hoard with only sixth-
century coinage should not come as a complete surprise, yet I hope you will agree with me that the
following survival is still remarkable.7
In 2003 a group of probably as many as 50 sixth-century BC Greek coins came to light in
Turkmenistan. The find details, as with all hoards discovered out of archaeological context, are
somewhat murky; but the numismatic community was fortunate in that a collector of later central
Asian coins - Hans Mondorf, who lived at the time in Ashgabat - quickly realized the uniqueness
of the find and did his best to preserve a record. While the exact spot was kept secret, we know
that the coins were uncovered on the left bank of the Amudarya (the Oxus River of the Greeks)
near modern Kerki in Turkmenistan. The coins were not found in a single pot or at one time, but
rather over a period of 10-12 months. There is no evidence of a single intrusion, so the most likely
explanation is that the hoard became dispersed in the ground. There is no way to know how much
of the original hoard was recovered. It is also hard to be certain how much of the recovered hoard
was recorded. Through Mondorf’s efforts, weights and photographs of 33 coins and 20 pieces ofhacksilber now exist. At least 15 coins (reportedly Thasian in poor condition) were known to have
been dispersed without being photographed.
This is not the first time ancient coins have been found at Kerki. V. Masson in the 1950s re-
ported the find of a gold daric.8 Kerki was part of Central Asia added to the Persian Empire by
Cyrus in the 530s and re-conquered by Darius after the revolts that marked the start of his reign.
Kerki stands on the border of the Persian satrapy of Bactria to the south, to the east is the city of
Samarkhand, and the satrapy of Sogdiana and Margiana with its capital at Merv lies to the west.
It is at the centre of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, an important Bronze Age
civilization that only came to light in the 1970s. Kerki is also situated at a likely crossing point of
the Oxus.
The coins themselves bear great similarities with other sixth-century finds – notably Deman-
hur, Ras Shamra, IGCH 1185 in Brussels and CH VIII.19.9 Also, as seems to be the case with all
these finds, there is a new type, reminding us how much less complete our record of sixth-century
coinage is than, for instance, early fifth-century coinage. Let’s take a quick survey of the find. The
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10 Marconi 2007, p. 13.
11 Kagan (forthcoming)
largest component is Thraco-Macedonian. Of the 33 coins for which we have photos, 17 are from
that region. If one adds the unrecorded 15 Thasian coins to the hoard, the region’s representation
goes from half to roughly two-thirds. The mix of Abdera, Dikaia, Berge, Thasos, Stageira and the
uncertain type with the winged-running figure is, with the exception of Thasos, identical to the mix
in Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit), the hoard thought to have the earliest Thraco-Macedonian coins
found in the Levant.
The running-winged figure (Pl. I, 1) shares dies with Demanhur (52) and Ras Shamra (nos. 5
etc). This type represented 14 of the 38 coins from that latter find. It is fascinating how often coins
of Stageira, an otherwise rare mint, appear in this part of the world. The exact type we have of the
standing boar with a rose underneath was found in Ras Shamra (29), Demanhur (48) and IGCH
1185 (19). The four Berge staters are all early. None of the broad figured dies with the regular-
ized diagonally divided incuses are present. Illustrated are two particularly early types (Pl. I, 2-3).
The first is marked by the very large head of the satyr. The second is unusual in that the nymph’s
left hand is raised and in her lowered left hand is a wreath or round instrument. That Berge was
also represented by a fraction is notable as well (Pl. I, 4). It has already been remarked upon that
the presence of these early fractions argue against seeing the coinage’s purpose as purely tribute
payment. This may well be thefi
rst Thraco-Macedonian fraction found in a sixth-century mixedhoard, and as such it provides a valuable testament to trade rather than tribute leading to the pres-
ence of archaic Greek coins in this part of the world. It is de rigeur for an archaic mixed sixth-
century hoard to have at least one stater of Dikaia (Pl. I, 5) without any accompanying distaters.
IGCH 1185, Adana, Sahkha, Ch VIII 19 (to which we share the obverse die) all have a single sta-
ter, while Demanhur has three. Of the photographed coins, Abdera is the largest contingent. There
are six tetradrachms and one octodrachm. All are early in May’s Period 1. None bears symbols;
one of the coins shares its obverse die with a specimen from the Persepolis deposit (Pl. I, 6-7).
We have records of two coins of Thasos. If the report was right that there were another 15 coins
from the island badly corroded then this would be the largest contingent. The examples we have
are from the early stages of the mint and consistent with a sixth-century date (Pl. I, 8). An archaic
Thasos fragment we should remember was found in the Kabul hoard.As we turn to central Greece, the first thing to notice is the absence of any coins of Athens.
That Wappenmuenzen and early owls are rarely found in sixth-century hoards has once more been
confirmed. We have a unique coin that I believe to be an early stater of Corcyra (Pl. I, 9). There are
several reasons for this. It is on the Corcyrean weight standard: 11.5g. versus a theoretical 11.6g.
The reverse star is reminiscent of Corcyra. The obverse type of the Medusa is otherwise unattested
on the island, but I wonder if the depiction of the Medusa and her child Pegasus on the pediment of
the Temple of Artemis earlier in the century might have some connection (Pl. I, 10). The argument
based on coin types that the Pegasus on the pediment represents Corinth has been made by others,
most recently Clemente Marconi.10 Was Corcyra sending her Metropolis a message by choosing
the mother of Pegasus as its coin type? At the recent congress on Epiorote coinage at Ioninna I
argued before knowing of this coin that Corcyra may have had a wappenmuenzen-like series of
staters to go with the facing cow head fractions that predate the cow/calf coinage. This coin from
Berlin may be another in the series, also on the weight standard (Pl. I, 11).11 To go with the Me-
dusa, we have a single one-sided Pegasus stater of Corinth. This coin belongs to the second class
of Ravel’s first period and is similar to staters found at Mit Rahineh (four of the 23 coins in that
hoard) and Demanhur. The Aeginetan coin is, as would be expected, an early example of Group II
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12 Destrooper-Georgiades 1993. The author wishes to thank Dr.
Destrooper-Georgiades for her helpful comments at the Congress.
with a thin collar and a windmill reverse with no indication of a proto-skew (Pl. I, 12).
From the Cyclades, only Paros is represented (Pl. I, 13). This coin should be placed in
Sheedy’s Series B group 2, the same group as the Mit Rahineh specimen. Demanhur and Sakha
had slightly later examples. Ionia is represented by fractions of Teos and Samos (Pl. I, 14-15)
and a stater of Chios. All three coins (including the fractions), were also found in Demanhur. The
solitary coin from Caria is an early lion-forepart usually attributed to Mylasa (Pl. II, 16). That
these coins are early is well-established by their presence in the Croesus-Carian hoard of c.525
(CH VIII.10) found in western Asia Minor. This is, however, the earliest mixed sixth-century
context for the mint.
The presence of four Lydian Croesids – two staters and two hemistaters - is just one more
remarkable aspect of this find. CH VIII 19 had the first stater recorded in a mixed context and
the large Demanhur hoard had a single hemistater (Pl. II, 17-18). What is perhaps most com-
forting about the group is the presence of an extremely worn example. Many of the coins in the
hoard suffer from a degree of corrosion and some wear, but this is by far and away the coin that
shows the most evidence of wear from circulation. We know from the recent archaeological
discoveries from Sardis that the heavy Croesids pre-date the Persian destruction. Their presence
in this hoard that I would date to between 520/515 on the high side and 505/500 on the low sideis perfectly consistent.
Lycia is represented by three boar forepart incuse staters on the local nine gram standard.
The illustrated example has the distinctive reverse type of the three solid triangles and the outline
triangle that was found in Demanhur and CH VII 19 (Pl. II, 19). Finally there is a rare coin with
a facing lion devouring a cow on the obverse and a winged solar disk on the reverse (Pl. II, 20).
Destrooper-Georgiades has convincingly attributed this type to Cyprus based on the type and date.
One of the four previously known examples comes from CH. 2.10, a small sixth-century BC hoard
from Egypt.12
Bullion was an important component of the hoard (Pl. II, 21-22). We have photographs and
weights for 20 pieces. The weights of the Hacksilber range from 2.30g to 14.95g, with an average
weight of 7.15g. There is no evidence of a denominational structure. The bullion helps us under-stand perhaps the purpose the Greek coins served so far from their place of origin. While it seems
unlikely that the Greek coins had a value in excess of their weight, it is notable compared to coins
found in Egyptian hoards how few test cuts have been made. Also there are no fragmentary coins.
This is perhaps best read as an indication that precious metal did not change hands with a high
frequency in Central Asia compared for instance to the Levant at this date. Coins and hacksilber
were a storehouse of wealth, but not a vehicle for small commercial transactions.
The presence and nature of the bullion should also be of interest to students of South Asian nu-
mismatics. The Kabul hoard that we can now date 40 to 50 years earlier than the original publisher
is the first appearance in a datable context of punchmarked coins. It is an argument admittedly ex
silentio (and Kerki may be north of the expected circulation pattern), but the absence of punch-
marks on the bullion of the Kerki hoard certainly supports the proponents of a late starting date
for Indian coinage following rather than preceding the appearance of Greek coins in the region.
This hoard leaves us with much to speculate on. When examined in the context of the Persepo-
lis Deposit, the Malayer, Kabul and Balkh hoards and other recent small finds from Afghanistan,
we can clearly state that Greek coins found their way to the eastern fringes of the Persian Empire
very soon after they were first struck. Perhaps we can now reasonably expect to find early Greek
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coins in Uzbekistan and even China. What influence these coins had other than as bullion again is
a matter for speculation. At least we can see that the iconography of the coins survived their travel
and were not obliterated by cuts and fragmentation. The diversity of the sixth-century hoards re-
corded from the Persian Empire is a matter of some wonder. Our ratio - 16 different mints out of 33
recorded coins - is not atypical. There is getting to be enough new evidence for the sixth century,
both electrum and silver, to warrant a new synthesis on the purpose and spread of early coinage.
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6 7 8
9 11 12
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13 14 (1:1) 15 (2:1)
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19 20
21 (both enlarged) 22