Gkikaki, Mairi (2017) The earliest coin series of Thyateira : a precursor to the ‘quasi municipal’ Seleucid coinage. Nomismatika Chronika, 2016 (34). (In Press)

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Abstract

In 190 BC, on the eve of the Battle of Magnesia ad Sipylum, the stationing of the armies of Antiochus III in the vicinity of Thyateira occasioned a bronze issue in just one denomination. It can be regarded as the precursor to the “quasi-municipal” coinages, a phenomenon typical for Syria during the late Seleucid period. The issue displays a royal type for the obverse accompanied by the ethnic. The countermarks on both known specimens reveal the revalidation of the coinage in response to new circumstances after Antiochus III’s defeat. The city then passed into the hands of the Attalids and in the later part of the 2nd century BC bronzes were issued in four denominations. The minting activity of the city was discontinued until the Roman imperial period.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CJ Numismatics D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History
Journal or Publication Title:	Nomismatika Chronika
Publisher:	Hellenic Numismatic Society
ISSN:	1105-8498
Official Date:	4 April 2017
Dates:	Date Event 4 April 2017 Accepted
Volume:	2016
Number:	34
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	In Press
Copyright Holders:	Hellenic Numismatic Society

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