In the Hellenistic period, Alexanders and other coins of Attic weight were used as common currency, but local currency didn't disappear. While several states adopted a closed or open monetary system, many cities chose a mixed system where both local and common currencies were admitted in circulation. Epigraphic and literary sources provide us interesting informations about this system, especially about public and prived use of both coinages. Some products and services could only be purchased in local currency, whereas some others were regularly paid for in common currency. Such a system was flexible and advantageous.
Le « trésor » publié ici se compose de 135 monnaies et de deux lingots d'argent trouvés dans la cella du temple de Léto en 1975, 2001 et 2002. L'ensemble réunit une monnaie lycienne d'époque dynastique, des monnaies de types rhodiens (imitations et plinthophores), du Koinon des Lyciens, d'Antiphellos, d'Attaleia, un denier de Titus, une monnaie provinciale romaine et deux intrusions tardives (type Securitas reipublicae). Pour les monnaies rhodiennes et celles du Koinon des Lyciens, l'auteur est amenée à corriger la chronologie, certaines attributions et l'identification de certaines dénominations, en s'appuyant sur les inscriptions. Si l'interprétation de ce « trésor », qui n'est pas un ensemble clos, est difficile, il atteste en tout cas l'importance des monnaies rhodiennes dans la circulation monétaire en Lycie à la basse époque hellénistique.
Among other innovations in coinage, the portrait tetradrachms of Eumenes II testify to the interest that the Attalid king showed in coinage. It is difficult to date these coins using purely numismatic criteria. The generally favoured late dating is based on the notion that this was a short-lived coinage, but it may well have been struck – possibly at intervals – over a relatively long period of Eumenes II’s reign. In this paper I defend an early dating for the starting point of this coinage, in the first half of the reign and even in the first years, before the Treaty of Apamea. The historical context of the rising power of Rome in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Second Macedonian War may explain the original features of this coinage and its iconography, which shows a will to affirm a personal power and also suggests a connection with Rome through the Pergamene cult of the Kabeiroi.
Les recherches récentes sur les monnaies de bronze ont permis de progresser dans la définition de leur valeur, mais on discute encore pour savoir s’il a existé ou non une subdivision du chalque. Les monnaies seules ne permettant pas de répondre à cette question, le présent article passe en revue les sources épigraphiques et littéraires et analyse le sens des mots grecs dans lesquels on a proposé de voir le nom d’une subdivision du chalque. Il en ressort que ces mots ont un sens général de menue monnaie, tiré de leur sens premier, mais qu’ils ne désignent pas une dénomination précise. En outre, des inscriptions montrent que le chalque était la plus petite valeur du système.
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