Greek Monetary History

Question 1

Croesus’ Reign, thus period in which bimetallism was established.

Answer 1

c.560-46 BC

Question 2

darics and zigloi start to be minted

Answer 2

c.510 BC

Question 3

Period in which coin was invented in the Greek World

Answer 3

650-25 BC

Question 4

Start of Greek minting at Aegina (‘first’ Greek mint)

Answer 4

c.555/550 BC

Question 5

Start of Wappenmunzen

Answer 5

c.550 BC

Question 6

Start of Gorgoneia coins at Athens

Answer 6

c.525 BC

Question 7

Start of unwreathed owls

Answer 7

c.515 BC

Question 8

Blacksmith’s Owls (low quality, result of ‘frenzied’ minting)

Answer 8

c.480 BC

Question 9

Start of minting at Corinth

Answer 9

c.530 BC

Question 10

Start of minting in South Italy

Answer 10

c.530 BC

Question 11

Period of most notable spread of coinage in Greece.

Answer 11

550-500 BC

Question 12

Period Athens depended on emergency bronze and gold coins due to Peloponnesian conflict

Answer 12

407-04 BC

Question 13

Approximate date of Thorikos Hoard

Answer 13

Early 3rd century BC

Question 14

date of Colophon Hoard

Answer 14

c.500 BC

Question 15

Battle of Eurymedon, acquisition of much booty fromPersians

Answer 15

466 BC

Question 16

Start of Athens’ minting AFTER persian war / ‘Wreathed’ Owls

Answer 16

c.478 BC

Question 17

New temporary minting of Athenian decadrachms

Answer 17

460s

Question 18

End of Athenian decadrachms

Answer 18

c.460

Question 19

Start of Standardized/Conventionalized silver coinage of Athens and ‘immobilized designs’

Answer 19

450s

Question 20

End of Standardized/Conventionalized silver coinage of Athens

Answer 20

c.405 BC

Question 21

Period of Athenian ‘immobilized designs’

Answer 21

450s - 295 BC

Question 22

Period of allied states’ mints closing under Athenian influence

Answer 22

c.500-445 BC

Question 23

3 Possible dates for Athenian Decree on Coinage, Weights, and Measures

Answer 23

450 / mid-420s / 414 BC

Question 24

By when had Macedonia had numerous silver mints w some electrum

Answer 24

c.500 BC

Question 25

Time around when ALEXANDROU (for Alexander I) legend appeared on Macedonian coins

Answer 25

470s BC

Question 26

Period of minting of debased staters by Macedonian mints

Answer 26

late 5th - 4th cent

Question 27

Reign of Philip II

Answer 27

359-336

Question 28

Victory of Philip's horses at Olympic Games

Answer 28

356 BC

Question 29

Victory of Philip's racing chariot at Olympic Games

Answer 29

352/1

Question 30

Start of early phase of Philip's tetradrachms

Answer 30

post-356 BC

Question 31

2 dates of start of Philip's gold coins

Answer 31

c.352 / c.345 BC

Question 32

2 dates for start of AtG's silver and gold coins

Answer 32

336/5 / post-333 BC

Question 33

Battle of Issus (defeat of Darius III) for AtG

Answer 33

333 BC

Question 34

approximate 'eagle tetradrachm' minting period

Answer 34

early in AtG's reign

Question 35

Minting of Poros Medallion

Answer 35

c.326 BC

Question 36

Demanhur Hoard (signif: shows circ after AtG died) buried

Answer 36

c.318/7 BC

Question 37

First appearance of ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ on coins of AtG

Answer 37

c.329 BC

Question 38

start of small change minting in sicily (specif. Acragas)

Answer 38

c.450 BC

Question 39

since when had eas rude been minted in S Italy

Answer 39

12th cent BC

Question 40

since when had eas signatum (stamped bronze) been minted in S Italy

Answer 40

6th cent BC

Question 41

When did Sybaris (later Thurium)start minting coins?

Answer 41

c.446 BC

Question 42

When was Sybaris renamed to Thurium?

Answer 42

443 BC

Question 43

In what century were bronze coins first minted in Black Sea region (specif. Olbia)?

Answer 43

5th cent BC