Essays on the Coinage of Alexander the Great Bellinger, Alfred R. (Alfred Raymond), 1893-1978 Numismatic Studies Issue 11 American Numismatic Society New York Original Publication: 1963 Digital Edition: http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan23257 31 August 2016 About this Digital Edition Since the dimensions, font, and other stylistic attributes of this document may differ from the original printed work, the page numbers may not correspond precisely to the original. As a result, when citing this resource, be sure to state that you are citing the Digital Edition, with the date of access, and URI. The Table of Contents page in this document is a programmatically-generated replacement for the printed original. Example Bellinger, Alfred R. (Alfred Raymond), 1893-1978, Essays on the Coinage of Alexander the Great (Digital Edition), Numismatic Studies 11, (New York: American Numismatic Society, 1963). http:// numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan23257 (accessed May 14, 2017). NUMISMATIC STUDIES No. II i THE CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER (Reproduced from L. M.W. Laistner, History of the Greek World, through courtesy of Methuen & Co., Ltd.) ii ESSAYS ON THE COINAGE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT By ALFRED R. BELLINGER THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY NEW YORK 1963 iii ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY NEW YORK PRINTED IN GERMANY AT J.J.AUGUSTIN, GLÜCKSTADT iv CONTENTS • Preface v • Abbreviations • vii • The King's Money • 1 • The King's Finances • 35 • The Successors and the Cities • 80 • The Sequence of Events • 94 • Bibliography • 114 • Index to the Plates • 131 v PREFACE The study of Alexander's coinage has been pursued for a long time and has interested a number of eminent numismatists. It is, of course, merely a part of the study of Alexander and a part which omits or only slightly illumines the most famous aspects of that famous man. Yet the coins have some things to show which the texts pass over in silence and their evidence is as yet far from exhausted. The prodigious number of coins still in existence which bear his name and types has made it natural that a large part of the interest of those who have dealt with them should be devoted to trying to determine where they were struck and when. Much has been accomplished in this primary task of arrangement but much is still to be done. And beyond this question is the more fundamental one of what part the coinage played in the total functioning of Alexander's empire. We need to know not only where the coins were struck and when but by whose agency, in what quantity, with what purpose and to what effect. These pages raise and discuss some facets of the problem. They are essays only and far from a definitive treatment. In some cases they are premature, propounding questions which further evidence will presently resolve, and sometimes new evidence has accumulated during the time the book was being composed. I must beg the reader's indulgence on the plea that what I am trying to do is not to settle questions so much as to raise them in the hope that they may ultimately be settled by the combined efforts of many with new material at their command and with different points of view which may supplement or invalidate my own. I have set down the phenomena that seemed to me most important from the beginning of Alexander's coinage to the end of its imitations. If the essays should attract new students to the Alexandrine coinage and somewhat advance the understanding of the experts they will, I believe, have justified their existence. The book has been a pleasure to write. It was begun and finished at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, for me certainly the ideal place for such a composition. The thought of my colleagues there and in the American Numismatic Society will always color these essays with the happiest memories. As in other cases, I have submitted my ideas to my most valuable mentors: E. S. G. Robinson, Henri Seyrig and Margaret Thompson, not always convincing them but always profiting by their counsel. vi ABBREVIATIONS • BCH • Bulletin de Correspondence hellenique. • BMC • Catalogues of Greek and Roman Coins in the British Museum. • Beloch • Karl Julius Beloch, Griechische Geschichte IV. I, Berlin, 1925. • CAH • Cambridge Ancient History. • CIA • Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum. • CIG • Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum. • Cohen • Henri Cohen, Description historique des Monnaies de l'Empire romain. • Demetrius • E. T. Newell, The Coinages of Demetrius Poliorcetes. • Demanhur • E. T. Newell, Alexander Hoards II. Demanhur 1905. • ESM • E. T. Newell, The Coinage of the Eastern Seleucid Mints from Seleucus I to Antiochus III. • Gaebler • Hugo Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen von Makedonia und Paeonia. • HN • B. V. Head, Historia Numorum. • IG • Inscriptiones Graecae. • JHS • Journal of Hellenic Studies. • JIAN • Journal international d'Archéologie numismatique. • JRS • Journal of Roman Studies. • Kyparissia • E. T. Newell, Alexander Hoards I. Introduction and Kyparissia Hoard. • MN • Museum Notes American Numismatic Society. • Myriandros • E. T. Newell, Myriandros Kat'isson. • NC • Numismatic Chronicle. • NNM • Numismatic Notes and Monographs American Numismatic Society. • NZ vii • Numismatische Zeitschrift. • Noe • S. P. Noe, A Bibliography of Greek Coin Hoards Ed. 2. • OGIS • Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae. • Olympia • E. T. Newell, Alexander Hoards IV. Olympia. • REG • Revue des Etudes grecques. • RIC • Roman Imperial Coinage. • RN • Revue numismatique. • Reattribution • E.T. Newell, The Reattribution of Certain Tetradrachms of Alexander The Great • SNG • Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. • Sicyon • S. P. Noe, The Alexander Coinage of Sicyon arranged from Notes of Edward • T. Newell. • Sidon and Ake E. T. Newell, The Dated Coinage of Sidon and Ake. • Sylloge • Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum. • Tarsos • E. T. Newell, Tarsos under Alexander. • Traité • Ernest Babelon, Traité des Monnaies grecques et romaines. • WSM • E. T. Newell, The Coinage of the Western Seleucid Mints from Seleucus I to Antiochus III. • ZfN • Zeitschrift für Numismatik. viii