The Changing Pattern of Achaemenid Persian Royal Coinage

Christopher Tuplin ()
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Christopher Tuplin: University of Liverpool

A chapter in Explaining Monetary and Financial Innovation, 2014, pp 127-168 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter deals with coinage minted during the Achaemenid Persian imperial period that may be regarded as royal: (a) the gold darics and silver sigloi first created in the late sixth century BC as a successor to the royal coinage of Lydia and (b) other issues from the late fifth century onwards which draw on the iconography of the daric/siglos coinage or have other royal associations and which began to appear at a time when the production of darics and sigloi had diminished. Coined money was a cultural feature, even peculiarity, of the empire’s Aegean and East Mediterranean edges, and the various innovations involved in the story of royal coinage (a specifically west Anatolian phenomenon) are most readily understood in political or ideological terms rather than economic ones.

Keywords: Fourth Century; Gold Coin; Silver Coin; Greek City; Coin Design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06109-2_6

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