Note on the Coinage of the Ionian Revolt

Author(s): P. Gardner
Source: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 33 (1913), p. 105
Published by: The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
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NOTE ON THE COINAGE OF THE IONIAN REVOLT.

WHEN I wrote my paper on this coinage which was published in this
Journal (1911, pp. 151-160) I was unaware that a find of coins had then
recently taken place at Vourla (Clazomenae), which at once added to our
knowledge of the coins of the Revolt, and confirmed my attribution of them.
This find has been published in the Revue Numismatique (1911, p. 60), by
M. R. Jameson, who being unacquainted with my previous paper published in
the Proceedings of the British Academy for 1908 (vol. iii. pp. 119-122)
came independently to the same conclusions as myself and gave the find to
the time of the Ionian Revolt. Such support as that of M. Jameson greatly
strengthens my position.
The Vourla find contained thirty-eight coins, all with incuse squares on
the reverse. Five are staters of electrum: four are of the known types of a
sphinx, a cock, a sow, a horse: the fifth bears a new type, an archaic head of
Athena to r. in close-fitting helmet. Twenty-one are hectae in electrum, all
from one die on the obverse side: the type is the head and neck of a bull to
r.; the weight 2-31 to 2-36 grammes (about 36 grains). Twelve are silver
coins: type, forepart of a winged boar to r.; weight 6-50 to 6-70 grammes
(101-103 grains).
I fully agree with M. Jameson that the stater with the head of Athena
must be of Priene - and turning to my paper of 1911 I observe that I there
wrote that we must expect to find coins of this class struck at Priene, which
hope has thus soon been justified. The silver coins are precisely of the class
of money of Clazomenae which I attributed to the Ionian revolt; and
their appearance in company with the electrum staters strongly confirms
this attribution.
The hectae of electrum are unpublished before. The type of a bull's
head and neck occurs on the silver coins of Samos,1 and there can be scarcely
any doubt that these hectae were issued at Samos. They prove, what before
was doubtful, that the Ionian League struck hectae as well as staters in
electrum.
The archaeologist is so well accustomed to find theories which he put
forth in full confidence wrecked by the discovery of fresh facts, that I may be
pardoned if I feel some satisfaction in the quick confirmation of my views as
to the coinage of the Revolt by new results of excavation.
P. GARDNER.
1 Gardner Nu~m. Chron. 1882, Pl. VIII:

PI. XXXIV.

Babelon, Trait4, P1. XI: Br. Mus. Cat. Ionia,

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