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
29 - The chronology of the Athenian New Style Coinage
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
Miss M. Thompson has now placed at our disposal a far greater body of evidence for studying the Athenian New Style coinage than was previously available. This is a service which cannot be underestimated. Nevertheless it is my belief that her evidence can be differently interpreted. She begins the coinage in 196/5 and ends it in 88/7.1 propose to argue here for a beginning c. 164 and an end towards the end of the Roman Republic.
For the purposes of this article I shall assume that her sequence of issues is sound and shall only question her absolute dating. I have indicated doubts about her sequence elsewhere, but do not feel myself qualified to pursue them. The most important single point in her new sequence is the discovery that the coins of BAΣIΛE MIΘPAΔATHΣ–APIΣTIΩN do not belong somewhere in the late two–magistrate issues, but are akin in style to the latest of the three–magistrate issues. I accept this absolutely, but question her deductions from it.
It will be convenient first to argue that my alternative dating is sound and then to deal with the apparent objections. The arguments for the alternative dating fall into four categories: major historical difficulties, the hoard evidence, the Attic prosopography, minor historical difficulties. In order to avoid misunderstanding, I wish to say that, despite my known interests and the length of the present section on Attic prosopography, this topic has been subsidiary in my thinking and that it was not until the hoard evidence forced on me the belief in a later date that I investigated the prosopography at all closely.
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- Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History , pp. 294 - 320Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997