Le salaire de Dexios : retour sur la frappe du nouvel amphictionique
(2011) Bulletin de correspondance hellénique — Vol. 135, n° 1, p. 237-259 (2011)
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- (en) In Spring 336 BCE, the Delphic Amphictyony decided to create a new full-weight Aeginetic coinage: the “new Amphictyonic”. A re-examination of the preliminary estimate of the minting (CID II 75, col. I, l. 46-56), allows us to establish that the minter was paid at a rate of 9 Amphictionic obols per delivered mina, and had a margin of a sixtieth (1.67%) of the total silver mass, in order to cover the losses in melting. An allowance for those two expenses, as well as the actual weight shortage of the different lots of coins intended for the melting pot, were entered in the account of the global ἀπουσία (l. 48-49). Such a complex calculation fits perfectly with the practices of Greek goldsmiths. In Spring 335 BCE, the experiment of the new Amphictyonic was brutally interrupted, while about 46 talents of metal were still to be struck. This raw silver mass, intended to produce 44.31 talents of Amphictyonic coins, was exchanged for 45.31 talents of Attic coins — which meant a saving of a little more than a talent (CID II 76, col. III, l. 38-42).
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Doyen, C. (2011). Le salaire de Dexios : retour sur la frappe du nouvel amphictionique. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, 135(1), 237-259. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/268430 (Original work published 2011)