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The Ionian Confederacy—Addendum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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In my recent article on the Ionian Confederacy I omitted to mention an important piece of evidence relating to the League in its most critical days. It has been shown by Prof. P. Gardner that during the Ionian Revolt a monetary convention was established among a group of insurgent cities. Several Ionian towns, whose number cannot at present be shown to have exceeded nine or ten, but may be extended by further research, issued a set of electrum coins with an identical reverse pattern on the same standard of weight. The common type would appear to have been derived from Chios; the standard of weight is that of Miletus.
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1 J.H.S. 1915, pp. 173–188.
2 J.H.S. 1911, pp. 152–156.
3 A priori, it is more than likely that the monetary convention was joined by Miletus, the ringleader in the Ionian Revolt. The inclusion of Priene in the convention, which Prof. Gardner considered probable on general grounds, has since been proved by a fresh find of coins (J.H.S. 1913), p. 105).
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