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HISTORICAL GREEK COINSof literary evidence available, the early history ofthe Attic coinage presents more uncertainties thanare to be found in almost any other series. Can itbe that if we possessed an equal bulk of literaryreferences to other early coinages, such as theAeginetan and Corinthian, we should find it noless difficult to fit the extant coins into theirhistorical background ?In the present case,to put the matter baldly,we are asked to decide two or three questions.Did a mint exist at Athens before Solon's time,and, if so, what coins were issued from it ? IfSolon started the Athenian mint, did he issuethe coins which are so familiar as the Atheniany\ai)K9 (No. 6), or something else ? If he did notintroduce the yXav/ces, who did ? lThe arguments in favour of the existence of amint at Athens before Solon's time may be summarisedas follows. In the first place, it seemshighly improbable that while all the great citiesin the neighbourhood Aegina, Corinth, Chalcis,Eretria, to mention only the more important hadtheir own coinages, Athens should have been con-of itsneighbours and rivals.tent to use the moneySecondly, had Solon actually started the mint forthe first time, so remarkable an innovation would1It would be beyond the scope of this book to discuss this complicatedsubject in detail. I can hardly do more than give a bare outline of thequestion. Since the appearance of M. Babelon's suggestive essay in theJourn. Internat. for 1904, I have gone into the evidence once more, andarrived at the conclusions stated here. They are in substantial accordancewith the interpretation of the Aristotelian evidence proposed inNum. Chron., 1897, which I see no reason to discard, and also with theclassification of the coins proposed by Dr. von Fritze in Ze.it. f. Num. ,xx.12
passage of Aristotle. See Num. Chr., 1897, p. 292. JHISTORICAL GREEK COINShardly have been omitted in the record of hisachievements. A writer dealing with history fromthe economic and constitutional point of viewalone, like Aristotle in his 'A&ypaww noXtreia, couldhardly have passed it over in silence ;it is stillless likely to have escaped the Atthidographers.Again, when Solon's policy in relation to the coinageis mentioned it is implied that he altered in somewhat existed before him. Finally, as there iswayusually some basis for the most foolish tradition,we may justifiably assume that the various legendsattributing the invention of the coinage to Erichthoniusand Lycus, or to Theseus, mean that theinvention went back to some very early time, atleast pre-Solonian.First let us consider the most important piece ofthe literary evidence. 1 From the famous tenthchapter of Aristotle's 'Afrqvaiaw HoXtreia we knowthat the pre-Solonian mina in use at Athensweighed 70 drachms, and that Solon raised theweight of the mina so as to be equivalent to100 drachms. Now the pre-Solonian mina inuse at Athens must have been the Pheidonian-Aeginetic ;that is generally admitted, and is indeedimplied in Aristotle's context. What happenedwas that the weight of the mina was increaseduntil its drachm (or ^^ part) was equivalent toT^J of the Pheidonian mina previously in use. NowTJ^ of the Pheidonian mina (^x 611*24 grammes)is 873 grammes. Therefore 873 grammes was1Androtion's evidence has had to be corrected in the light of the
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INDEXWreath: Antioch,163 ; Gortyna,
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