The Coinage Of Rhodes 408-C.190 Bc

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ID23652789
AuthorsR H J Ashto (corresponding author)
Year2001
Pages79-115
Publication date2001-11-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMoney and its uses in the ancient Greek world (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780199240128.003.0007
OpenAlexW4388392164
ISBN9780199240128
LanguageEN
Citations received11

synoccizcd in 408/7, the new coinage ofrhc unified state bore little resemblance to the disparate coinages which the three old cities had produced in silver and ckctrum from the late sixth century until, probably, the third quarter of the fifth.z The rose, the punning reverse design, had already appeared on fractions from Kamiros (B,\1C r4) and lalysos (BMC 9), bur not as a dominant type.i The heads of Helios and of the nymph Rhodos, the obverse types of almost all the late classical and Hellenistic coinage of Rhodes, do not occur on the coinages of the three old cities, and illustrate the adoption of Helios as the patron deity of the newly unified state.Moreover, whereas Jalysos had used an apparently individual weight standard, Kamiros the Aeginetan, and Lindos the Milcsian, the new state adopted the ‘C.hian’ weight standard, based on a tetradrachm of about r5.3 g. and so called because it is first attested in slightly heavier (c.r5.6 g.) form on Chios in the sixth cenrury.Since the rapid spread of this standard throughout western Asia Minor during the fourth century may have been due in part to Rhodian influence, it is often termed Rhodian, but to avoid ambiguity it will here be called Chian. As we shall see, a reduced standard based on a didrachm of c.6.Sg. was introduced in the late 340s: I shall call this the Rhodian standard.

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