{"title":"THE REMINTING OF ATHENIAN SILVER COINAGE, 353 B.C.: For George Cawkwell in his 91st year","authors":"J. Kroll","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.80.2.0229","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:ABSTRACTCombining evidence from Athenian silver coins, an unpublished Agora inscription, and several accounts concerning historical figures, this article reconstructs the Athenian program of 353 b.c. whereby all of the largerdenomination silver coinage in the city was demonetized and called in for restriking as a means of raising revenue during the fiscal crisis in the aftermath of the Social War. The folded-flan technique and erratic, substandard appearance of the resulting “pi-style” coins, attestations of their hurried production in that year, were retained in all subsequent Athenian silver coinage down into the 3rd century as recognized attributes of good Athenian money.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"36","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annual of the British School at Athens","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.80.2.0229","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:ABSTRACTCombining evidence from Athenian silver coins, an unpublished Agora inscription, and several accounts concerning historical figures, this article reconstructs the Athenian program of 353 b.c. whereby all of the largerdenomination silver coinage in the city was demonetized and called in for restriking as a means of raising revenue during the fiscal crisis in the aftermath of the Social War. The folded-flan technique and erratic, substandard appearance of the resulting “pi-style” coins, attestations of their hurried production in that year, were retained in all subsequent Athenian silver coinage down into the 3rd century as recognized attributes of good Athenian money.
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The School"s major publication, the Annual of the British School at Athens, is an illustrated volume of over 300 pages, with its Centenary volume appearing in 1995. It is a peer-reviewed journal, which publishes accounts of the School"s projects and articles on a wide range of Hellenic subjects. The table of contents for Volumes 103 and 104 (2008 and 2009) are available below, along with information for contributors. The Annual is available to Subscribing Members of the School. Alternatively, contact the London Secretary for subscription information.