Why Did the Greek "Polis" Originally Need Coins?

Authors

Thomas R. Martin, College of the Holy CrossFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1996

Abstract

Why did the ancient Greek polis originally need coins? This question, so simple to pose and so difficult to answer, leads to more specific queries such as what practical purposes coins served in the polis and what messages they communicated either explicitly through their types and legends or implicitly by their very creation as products of the political community of the polis.

Comments

This is the publisher‘s version of the work. This publication appears in The College of the Holy Cross’ institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

Originally published in Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 45, H. 3 (1996), pp. 257-283

Repository Citation

Martin, Thomas R. "Why Did the Greek Polis Originally Need Coins?" Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 45 (1996): 257-283.