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Author Topic: Dating Euboea, Histiaia, AR Tetrobol  (Read 439 times)

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Offline Diego G

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Dating Euboea, Histiaia, AR Tetrobol
« on: April 06, 2023, 04:16:10 pm »
Hello, I would like help to date this coin. Thanks. Best regards, Diego.

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Re: Dating Euboea, Histiaia, AR Tetrobol
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2023, 10:24:10 pm »
Unfortunately, the portion of the design most important for identifying these is missing (the controls and/or magistrate initials on the lower part of the reverse). So it may be hard to identify it beyond a century unless you notice a die match. The conservative dating would probably be 300-100 BCE. I don't have HGC 4 ("Northern and Central Greece," Hoover, 2014); it may give more precise dates, but you might need to see the missing symbols/controls.

One major reference, BCD Euboia, is effectively available online. Here are the Histaia Tetrobols of this type (dated 4th - 1st cent. BCE): https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=histiaia+tetrobol+-bronze&category=1-2&company=86&auction=164
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Re: Dating Euboea, Histiaia, AR Tetrobol
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2023, 05:00:52 am »
Quote from: Curtis JJ on April 06, 2023, 10:24:10 pm
... The conservative dating would probably be 300-100 BCE. ...
300 BC is probably too early, see e.g. a recent paper on this coinage (there are many more) by Sophia Kremydi, "Macedonia and Histiaia: Political and economic relations", in Vasileios Pappas, Dimitra Terzopoulou, "Ancient Macedonia VIII. Macedonia from the Death of Philip II to Augustus’ Rise to Power", Thessaloniki 2021, pp. 587-601:
https://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/bitstream/10442/18305/1/5.%20Kremydi%CE%91ncientMacedonia2021.pdf

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Re: Dating Euboea, Histiaia, AR Tetrobol
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2023, 08:49:03 am »
Very interesting paper Altamura, thank you for the link!

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Re: Dating Euboea, Histiaia, AR Tetrobol
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2023, 08:08:43 pm »
recent paper on this coinage (there are many more) by Sophia Kremydi, "Macedonia and Histiaia: Political and economic relations", in Vasileios Pappas, Dimitra Terzopoulou, "Ancient Macedonia VIII. Macedonia from the Death of Philip II to Augustus’ Rise to Power", Thessaloniki 2021, pp. 587-601

Very helpful indeed, thanks Altamura! Read and downloaded. The hoard appendix will be useful for other Pelop. coins. I wouldn't have guessed that Euboian currency would be found in hoards in Gaul (or that Histiaia was called Oreos!).
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