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The Ionian Confederacy -- Addendum

Author(s): M. O. B. Caspari
Source: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 36 (1916), p. 102
Published by: The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
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THE IONIAN CONFEDERACY.-ADDENDUM.


IN my recent article on the Ionian Confederacy1 I omitted to mention
an important piece of evidence relating to the League in its most critical
days. It has been shown by Prof. P. Gardner that during the Ionian Revolt
a monetary convention was established among a group of insurgent cities.2
Several Ionian towns, whose number cannot at present be shown to have
exceeded nine or ten, but may be extended by further research,3 issued a
set of electrum coins with an identical reverse pattern on the same standard
of weight. The common type would appear to have been derived from Chios;
the standard of weight is that of Miletus.
The affinities between these pieces are sufficient to prove some sort of
political entente among the Ionian cities. Yet they fall far short of constituting a proper federal coinage. They bear no name or mark of a federal
issuing authority, and their obverse types are unmistakably those of the
several federating towns. It is evident that the coins were the product of
various municipal mints, a fact which goes a long way to disprove the
existence of a federal mint.
The coins aptly illustrate the arrested state of development in which
the League stood at the time of its first dissolution by the Persians. Compared with the money of the Chalcidian and Aetolian, and even that of the
Boeotian and Achaean Leagues, they proclaim that the Ionian Confederacy
was a merely inchoate union.
M. 0. B. CASPARI.

J.H.S. 1915, pp. 173-188.


1911, pp. 152-156.
A4 priori, it is more than likely that the
monetary convention was joined by Miletus,
the ringleader in the Ionian Revolt. The
2J.H.S.

inclusion of Priene in the convention, which


Prof. Gardner considered probable on general
grounds, has since been proved by a fresh find
of coins (J.H.S. 1913, p. 105).

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