The Gold Coinage of Asia Before Alexander the Great
The Gold Coinage of Asia Before Alexander the Great
Percy Gardner
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7 lioy. Soc. Lit. , viii. 549. Michel, Recueil, No. 8. THE GOLD COINAGE OF ASIA 19 mint-master debases the coin beyond a certain point, the penalty of death is assigned. It is remarkable that so important a detail should be decided, not by the city, but by an official. (3) Turning from the literary and inscriptional evidence to that of the coins themselves, we have much material to deal with. And first of Cyzicus. Every one accustomed to study the coins of the ancient world is astonished at the... abundance, the variety, and the artistic beauty of the Cyzicene staters. 1 172 different types are mentioned by Mr. Greenwell; and more are now known. The inscriptional and literary evidence makes it clear that the staters of Cyzicus, together with the darics, constituted the main gold coinage of the Greek world from the time of Thucydides to that of Demosthenes. Yet Cyzicus does not seem to have been a great or wealthy city. It had great natural advantages, being built on a peninsula, united with the mainland of Mysia only by a narrow neck of land, 2 and having two good harbours.
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