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AEGINA.
rev. Inc. square, divided into two parts, weight 207 grs. The date of this
remarkable coin can hardly be much latei- than about B.C. 700. It
belongs to the class of early electrum money struck on the Phoenician
standard somewhat reduced. Here therefore perhaps is a clue to the
source whence the merchants of Aegina may have derived their standard
of weight. Putting aside this coin, and some few silver staters of more
than 200 grs., as exceptional, we may take the following scale as repre-
senting the actual maximum weights of the coins of Aegina:—
Stater,
194
grs.
Drachm,
97
grs.
Triobol,
48
grs.
Diobol,
32
grs.
Trihemiobol,
24
grs.
Obol,
16
grs.
Hemiobol,
8
grs.
Tetartemorion,
4
grs.
The following are approximately the chronological periods into which
the money of Aegina falls.
Give. b.c. 700-550.
Tortoise with plain shell and row of
dots down the middle of its back
(Fig. 220).
Incuse square divided into eight tri-
angular compartments, of which four
or more are deeply hollowed out .
At Staters and divisions.
Id.
tfw-c. b.c. 550-480.
Incuse square divided by broad bands
into five parts
Al Staters and divisions.
On these coins the original rough incuse square has already become a
conventional pattern, maintained, there can be no question, not from any
lack of skill on the part of the engraver, who might, if the State had so
willed it, have provided the coin with types on both sides, but, for
fear of damaging the credit of a currency, with the primitive aspect of
which, the traders of the Peloponnesian towns and of all the Aegean
ports, had, for more than a century and a half, been familiar. There
is, however, in the British Museum one very remarkable coin, with
a reverse type, unlike any others known. It may be described as
follows:—
Tortoise, as on the other coins of the I Incuse square, within which Triskelis .
period. I Al 187-5 grs.
AEGINA.
rev. Inc. square, divided into two parts, weight 207 grs. The date of this
remarkable coin can hardly be much latei- than about B.C. 700. It
belongs to the class of early electrum money struck on the Phoenician
standard somewhat reduced. Here therefore perhaps is a clue to the
source whence the merchants of Aegina may have derived their standard
of weight. Putting aside this coin, and some few silver staters of more
than 200 grs., as exceptional, we may take the following scale as repre-
senting the actual maximum weights of the coins of Aegina:—
Stater,
194
grs.
Drachm,
97
grs.
Triobol,
48
grs.
Diobol,
32
grs.
Trihemiobol,
24
grs.
Obol,
16
grs.
Hemiobol,
8
grs.
Tetartemorion,
4
grs.
The following are approximately the chronological periods into which
the money of Aegina falls.
Give. b.c. 700-550.
Tortoise with plain shell and row of
dots down the middle of its back
(Fig. 220).
Incuse square divided into eight tri-
angular compartments, of which four
or more are deeply hollowed out .
At Staters and divisions.
Id.
tfw-c. b.c. 550-480.
Incuse square divided by broad bands
into five parts
Al Staters and divisions.
On these coins the original rough incuse square has already become a
conventional pattern, maintained, there can be no question, not from any
lack of skill on the part of the engraver, who might, if the State had so
willed it, have provided the coin with types on both sides, but, for
fear of damaging the credit of a currency, with the primitive aspect of
which, the traders of the Peloponnesian towns and of all the Aegean
ports, had, for more than a century and a half, been familiar. There
is, however, in the British Museum one very remarkable coin, with
a reverse type, unlike any others known. It may be described as
follows:—
Tortoise, as on the other coins of the I Incuse square, within which Triskelis .
period. I Al 187-5 grs.