Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World

Waldemar Heckel, Richard Sullivan

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Through the ages, coins have been more than a common standard or a means of exchange between peoples for goods and services. The development of coinage gave men freedom to move beyond their communities, served as a propaganda tool for advancing armies and visually showed people the source of politics which governed their lives. Today, these same bits of metal, these ancient video disks, transmit through time information that might otherwise be lost to us.

This volume comprises a selection of papers given at a conference held at the Nickle Museum of The University of Calgary, Alberta, by perhaps the most distinguished gathering of numismatists ever to assemble in North America. Topics include specific coins of the Graeco–Roman world as well as discussions on coinage and propaganda, art, architecture, and archaeology.

Archaeologists, historians, coin collectors, students of the Classics, in fact, anyone who is interested in art and life as it existed in ancient times will be captivated by this collection.

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• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 30 octobre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781554586998
• Langue: English

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Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World The Nickle Numismatic Papers
Edited by Waldemar Heckel and Richard Sullivan
Through the ages, coins have been more than a common standard or a means of exchange between peoples for goods and services. The development of coinage gave men freedom to move beyond their communities, served as a propaganda tool for advancing armies and visually showed people the source of politics which governed their lives. Today, these same bits of metal, these ancient video disks, transmit through time information that might otherwise be lost to us.
This volume comprises a selection of papers given at a conference held at the Nickle Museum of The University of Calgary, Alberta, by perhaps the most distinguished gathering of numismatists ever to assemble in North America. Topics include specific coins of the Graeco-Roman world as well as discussions on coinage and propaganda, art, architecture, and archaeology.
Archaeologists, historians, coin collectors, students of the Classics, in fact, anyone who is interested in art and life as it existed in ancient times will be captivated by this collection.
Waldemar Heckel is Associate Professor of Classics at The University of Calgary, specializing in Macedonian History and Prosopography. He was also chairman of the Nickle Conference Organizing Committee.
Richard Sullivan is Adjunct Professor of History at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He is author of numerous articles on the Greek East in Roman times and has a book forthcoming on Eastern Royalty.
Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World The Nickle Numismatic Papers
Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World The Nickle Numismatic Papers
Edited by Waldemar Heckel and Richard Sullivan
Essays by
C. M. Kraay Richard Sullivan
M. B. Wallace Duncan Fishwick
Nancy Moore B. Levy
Stanley M. Burstein Richard Weigel
Frank Holt Frances Van Keuren
Otto M rkholm P. Vison
Bluma Trell Alexander G. McKay
Robert L. Hohlfelder
Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for The Calgary Institute for the Humanities
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Ancient coins of the Graeco-Roman world
Revised versions of papers presented at the Nickle Conference, held in the Nickle Arts Museum of the University of Calgary, Oct. 19-23, 1981. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-88920-130-7.
1. Coins, Greek - Congresses. 2. Coins, Roman - Congresses. I. Burstein, Stanley Mayer. II. Heckel, Waldemar, 1949- III. Sullivan, Richard, 1936- IV. Calgary Institute for the Humanities. V. Nickle Conference (1981 : Nickle Arts Museum)
CJ233.A5 1984 737.4938 C84-099646-2
Copyright 1984 Wilfrid Laurier University Press Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 84 85 86 87 4 3 2 1
No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system, translated or reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
EDITORS NOTE
PROGRAMME OF CONFERENCE
ABBREVIATIONS
PART I: GREEK COINAGE
Greek Coinage and War C. M. Kraay, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The Reduced Euboio-Attic Coin Weight Standard M. B. Wallace, University of Toronto
PART II: ALEXANDER AND THE HELLENISTIC EAST
The Silver Coinage of Alexander from Pella Nancy Moore, Princeton University
Lysimachus the Gazophylax : A Modern Scholarly Myth? Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles
The So-Called Pedigree Coins of the Bactrian Greeks Frank Holt, Concord Virginia
The Monetary System in the Seleucid Empire after 187 B.C. Otto M rkholm, National Museum, Copenhagen
PART III: THE PHOENICIAN WORLD
The Coins of the Phoenician World-East and West Bluma Trell, New York University
PART IV: COINS AND PROPAGANDA
Royal Coins and Rome Richard Sullivan, Simon Fraser University
An Altar Coin in Heidelberg Duncan Fishwick, University of Alberta
Nero s Liberation of Achaea: Some Numismatic Evidence from Patrae B. Levy, Princeton University
The Commemorative Coins of Antoninus Pius Re-Examined Richard Weigel, University of Western Kentucky
PART V: COINS AND ARCHAEOLOGY
A Coin Copy of Lysippus s Heracles at Tarentum Frances Van Keuren, University of Georgia
Foreign Currency in Etruria circa 400-200 B.C.: Distribution Patterns P. Vison , University of Michigan
Art and Architecture as Severan Coin Types Alexander G. McKay, McMaster University
Caesarea Maritima in Late Antiquity: An Introduction to the Numismatic Evidence Robert L. Hohlfelder, University of Colorado
PART VI: ABSTRACTS
S. P. Bellier
T. V. Buttrey
Frederick M. Lauritsen
William E. Metcalf
G. M. Woloch
PLATES AND FIGURES
FOREWORD
Established in 1976, the Calgary Institute for the Humanities has as its aim the fostering of advanced study and research in all areas of the humanities. Apart from supporting work in the traditional arts disciplines such as philosophy, history, ancient and modern languages and literatures, it also promotes research into the philosophical and historical aspects of the sciences, social sciences, fine arts, and the various professional disciplines.
The Institute s main raison d tre is to provide scholars, both established academics and post-doctoral fellows, with time to carry out their research. It also sponsors gatherings of persons who share common academic and intellectual interests, with a view to promoting discussion and disseminating ideas.
The Nickle Conference, held (appropriately) in the Nickle Arts Museum of the University of Calgary in October 1981, was such a gathering. Devoted to numismatics, a passionate avocation of the Nickle family, to whose munificence the University of Calgary is much indebted, this conference brought together a distinguished collection of numismatists from Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and Continental Europe, the most distinguished gathering of numismatists ever to assemble in Canada, and perhaps in North America. The Institute is very pleased to publish here revised versions of the papers delivered on that occasion, and we are sure that this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students interested in the coins and history of the Ancient World.
We wish to record here our gratitude to the Research Services Office and the Development Office of the University of Calgary, and to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for the grants which made the conference possible, and also to the Department of Classics, the Nickle Arts Museum, the Faculties of Humanities and Continuing Education, University of Calgary, for their support. Thanks are due also, of course, to the editors of the volume, Waldemar Heckel and Richard Sullivan, and also to John Humphrey who generously assisted with the final version of the manuscript. As ever, we thank Gerry Dyer for her painstaking work in typing the final version, and indeed so many earlier versions, of the volume.
J. C. Yardley, Acting Director
EDITORS NOTE
This volume represents the culmination of the efforts that have gone into the organization and staging of the Nickle Conference since September 1979. Sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, the Office of the Curator of Numismatics, and the Faculty of Continuing Education of the University of Calgary, the conference was held October 19-23, 1981, at the Nickle Arts Museum. In addition to providing a forum for the presentation of new ideas--many of which are published here--the congress introduced to the scholarly community the significant numismatic collection that has been brought together at the University. The organizers thought it fitting that the conference should be named in honour of Samuel C. Nickle, an Alberta pioneer whose generous donation to the University resulted in the establishment of the Nickle Arts Museum, and of his son. Carl, whose gift forms the nucleus of that museum s coin collection.
The present selection includes most papers given at the October meeting, though in slightly revised forms. Aside from conventions required by the Press, no effort has been made to harmonize these papers stylistically. As to abbreviations of ancient titles and modern scholarly books or periodicals, we have in general followed the Oxford Classical Dictionary and L ann e philologique. If citations in a paper differed from these but left no likelihood of confusion, we did not alter them.
Some speakers presented tentative conclusions or reports of work in progress, and their views are published only in abstract form; others felt that publication of even a summary would be premature. Hence, we wish to acknowledge the contributions of those individuals whose papers do not appear in this collection: Drs. Vladimir and Elvira Clain-Stefanelli (Smithsonian Institution), Dr. A. A. Barrett (University of British Columbia), Mrs. A. H. Easson (Royal Ontario Museum), and especially Mr. C. Orton, Curator of Numismatics (Nickle Arts Museum). Professor F. E. Shlosser presented a report in conjunction with that of Dr. G. M. Woloch; her subject is alluded to in Dr. Woloch s abstract. Regrettably, the format of the article by Professor Francis Cairns (Liverpool) could not easily be accommodated by the IBM Displaywriter; the article has been published in ZPE 54 (1984), 145-155. Professor Duncan Fishwick s article also could not appear and will be published elsewhere. He has, however, contributed another paper to the volume.
We wish also to thank those people who helped with the organization of the Nickle Conference: Drs. M. B. Walbank and J. W. Humphrey of the Department of C