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18 - Coinage and Its Economic Implications

from Part III - Business/Commerce

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

By
John H. Kroll
Edited by
Jenifer Neils  and
Dylan K. Rogers
Jenifer Neils
Affiliation:
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Dylan K. Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

Besides providing a brief illustrated account of Athens’ influential and widely disseminated Athena/owl silver coinage, this chapter surveys the huge silver mining and processing industry of southeast Attika, the role of coinage in the public and private economies of Athens and in international trade, and the minting of a bronze coinage for use at the Eleusinian festival.

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LaurionEleusisminingpricesmintexports/imports
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 257 - 268
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

For a broader and more detailed survey of Athenian coinage, consult Van Alfen 2012, which is excellent and fully up-to-date. For an exploration of what coinage can reveal about the history of fifth-century Athens, see Kallet and Kroll 2020. In addition to the discussions of Rihll 2001 and Hopper 1953, other informative accounts of Athens’ silver mining and processing industries will be found in Mee 2011 and Kakavoyannis 2005 (with an English summary, pp. 331–339). For the many aspects of the Athenian economy, there are illuminating treatments by Kallet 2007, Pritchard 2015, and throughout Bresson 2016.

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