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Author Topic: Fourree's & War time issues  (Read 4468 times)

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Offline Reid Goldsborough

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Re: Fourree's & War time issues
« Reply #25 on: December 07, 2010, 01:34:50 pm »
If they were minting coin during the siege, they'd have had problems. But did they? The owl was a universally used trade coin, but there was no trade with the city during the siege, so quite possibly no need for new-minted coin. How long did the siege last?

Athens still needed money to pay its soldiers, its mercenaries, and suppliers of food, war supplies, and other goods. Large transactions were handled by large denominations such as the tetradrachm.
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