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I.—Excavations At Sparta, 1908 § 8.—A Hoard of Hellenistic Coins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

A. J. B. Wace
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During the sinking of some trial pits by the iron bridge over the Eurotas a hoard of silver coins was found. They were contained in a plain vase of red ware, the mouth of which was closed by a clay stopper, and were discovered at a depth of ·50m. below the level of the present surface. The coins have now been transferred from the Sparta Museum to the National Coin Collection at Athens. They are all silver tetradrachms of Attic-Euboic weight, except of course the Ptolemaic coins, which were struck on the Phoenician standard. The weights are those of the coins before they were cleaned. They have probably lost a little in weight during the cleaning process, but I have not thought it necessary to re-weigh them. The Athenian coins I have not described in detail, as the type is so common. My hearty thanks are due to Dr. Svoronos for his help and advice.

Type
Laconia
Information
Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 14 , November 1908 , pp. 149 - 158
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1908

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page 149 note 1 B.S.A. xiii. PI. I. Ο. 12.

page 149 note 2 A brief account of the find will appear in the next annual report of the collection.

page 150 note 1 By the conventional signs C1, C2, C3, etc. the condition of the coin is indicated.

page 150 note 2 Müller, Münzen des Lysimachos.

page 150 note 3 Müller. Numismatique d'Alexandre.

page 153 note 1 B.M.Cat. Crete, Pl. II. =Rev. Num., 1889, Pl. III. 3.

page 156 note 1 Svoronos, , Journ. Int. Arch. Num. 1907, pp. 35 ff.Google Scholar

page 156 note 2 Numismatique d'Alexandre, pp. 97 ff.

page 156 note 3 For a list of the specimens known and the literature on the subject see Svoronos, Numismatique de la Crète, p. 3; to his list of known specimens add, Athens from Sophikó, the obverse of which is from the same die as No. 67 above (Journ. Int. Arch. Num. 1907, PI. I. 20), Cambridge.

page 157 note 1 J.H.S. 1907, pp. 145 ff. Pls. XIII. XIV.

page 157 note 2 B.C.H. xv. p. 416; Wroth, , Num. Chron. 1897, p. 107Google Scholar, PI. V. 2; Perdrizet, , Num. Chron. 1898, pp. I ff.Google Scholar; Lambros, Αναγραφὴ νομισμάτων, Πελοπόννησος p. 89.

page 157 note 3 B. M. Cat. Bactria, Pls. I. II.: cf. the memorial coin of Agathocles, op. cit. Pl. IV. 3.

page 157 note 4 Niese, , Geschichte d. griech. u. mak. Staaten, ii. pp. 426Google Scholar, 434, 441, 448, 454, 462 ff., 482.

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page 157 note 7 Cf. Zeit. f. Num. ii. Pl. IX. I; Lambros, op. cit. p. 88, Pl. IA'6.

page 157 note 8 If the coins of Areus were struck at Sparta we should expect the legend to be not ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ but ΒΑΙΛΕΟΣ as on the coins and tiles of Nabis: v.B.S.A. xiii. p. 21, Fig. 2.

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