Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Systems of reference
- GENERAL
- ATHENIAN
- 9 Public property in the city
- 10 Cleisthenes and Attica
- 11 Review of J. S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica
- 12 Review of P. Siewert, Die Trittyen Attikas und die Heeresreform des Kleisthenes
- 13 The Kerameikos ostraka
- 14 Megakles and Eretria
- 15 The Athenian Coinage Decree
- 16 Athena's robe
- 17 The treaties with Leontini and Rhegion
- 18 Entrenchment-clauses in Attic decrees
- 19 Apollo Delios
- 20 After the profanation of the Mysteries
- 21 Aristophanes and politics
- 22 Who was Lysistrata?
- 23 A note on IG i2114 [= i3105]
- 24 The epigraphical evidence for the end of the Thirty
- 25 The financial offices of Eubulus and Lycurgus
- 26 The dating of Demosthenes' speeches
- 27 Law on the Lesser Panathenaia
- 28 The Athenian Rationes Centesimarum
- 29 The chronology of the Athenian New Style Coinage
- 30 Review of M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens
- NEAR EASTERN
- Bibliography
- Publications of David M. Lewis
- Indexes
30 - Review of M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Systems of reference
- GENERAL
- ATHENIAN
- 9 Public property in the city
- 10 Cleisthenes and Attica
- 11 Review of J. S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica
- 12 Review of P. Siewert, Die Trittyen Attikas und die Heeresreform des Kleisthenes
- 13 The Kerameikos ostraka
- 14 Megakles and Eretria
- 15 The Athenian Coinage Decree
- 16 Athena's robe
- 17 The treaties with Leontini and Rhegion
- 18 Entrenchment-clauses in Attic decrees
- 19 Apollo Delios
- 20 After the profanation of the Mysteries
- 21 Aristophanes and politics
- 22 Who was Lysistrata?
- 23 A note on IG i2114 [= i3105]
- 24 The epigraphical evidence for the end of the Thirty
- 25 The financial offices of Eubulus and Lycurgus
- 26 The dating of Demosthenes' speeches
- 27 Law on the Lesser Panathenaia
- 28 The Athenian Rationes Centesimarum
- 29 The chronology of the Athenian New Style Coinage
- 30 Review of M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens
- NEAR EASTERN
- Bibliography
- Publications of David M. Lewis
- Indexes
Summary
Of all Greek coinages, it is perhaps the Athenian New Style which offers the greatest opportunities and the greatest potential rewards. A hundred–odd issues, mostly, if not all, annual, are lavish in information which should assist their arrangement and dating; once firmly dated, they will fertilise many various fields, mint–organisation, the Athenian calendar, prosopography, economic history. The attempt to arrange them has been frequently made since Beule. His work and Head's have been most influential; Svoronos and Kambanis rendered great services, but never reached the end of their task; finally Bellinger in 1949 broke away from the conventional starting–date of 229 BC and laid down the lines on which future study should proceed.
It is to Bellinger that Miss Thompson's enormously useful work is dedicated. Conceived in the belief that a new corpus of the coinage was needed if any firm chronological order was ever to be established, it has been carried through with a devotion and care for detail beyond praise. 6,888 coins are listed and ordered, numerous false readings have been removed, for the first time the essential evidence has been made fully available. Completeness is obviously a mirage in the pursuit of any coinage, and I found an unlisted reverse in the second dealer's stock I looked at with the catalogue, but I think that we can be confident that everything of importance is there for the time being.
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- Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History , pp. 321 - 324Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997