Note on the Coinage of the Ionian RevoltAuthor(s): P. GardnerSource: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 33 (1913), p. 105Published by: The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/624091 .

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NOTE ON THE COINAGE OF THE IONIAN REVOLT.

WHEN I wrote my paper on this coinage which was published in this Journal (1911, pp. 151-160) I was unaware that a find of coins had then

recently taken place at Vourla (Clazomenae), which at once added to our

knowledge of the coins of the Revolt, and confirmed my attribution of them. This find has been published in the Revue Numismatique (1911, p. 60), by M. R. Jameson, who being unacquainted with my previous paper published in the Proceedings of the British Academy for 1908 (vol. iii. pp. 119-122) came independently to the same conclusions as myself and gave the find to the time of the Ionian Revolt. Such support as that of M. Jameson greatly strengthens my position.

The Vourla find contained thirty-eight coins, all with incuse squares on the reverse. Five are staters of electrum: four are of the known types of a sphinx, a cock, a sow, a horse: the fifth bears a new type, an archaic head of Athena to r. in close-fitting helmet. Twenty-one are hectae in electrum, all from one die on the obverse side: the type is the head and neck of a bull to r.; the weight 2-31 to 2-36 grammes (about 36 grains). Twelve are silver coins: type, forepart of a winged boar to r.; weight 6-50 to 6-70 grammes (101-103 grains).

I fully agree with M. Jameson that the stater with the head of Athena must be of Priene - and turning to my paper of 1911 I observe that I there wrote that we must expect to find coins of this class struck at Priene, which hope has thus soon been justified. The silver coins are precisely of the class of money of Clazomenae which I attributed to the Ionian revolt; and their appearance in company with the electrum staters strongly confirms this attribution.

The hectae of electrum are unpublished before. The type of a bull's head and neck occurs on the silver coins of Samos,1 and there can be scarcely any doubt that these hectae were issued at Samos. They prove, what before was doubtful, that the Ionian League struck hectae as well as staters in electrum.

The archaeologist is so well accustomed to find theories which he put forth in full confidence wrecked by the discovery of fresh facts, that I may be pardoned if I feel some satisfaction in the quick confirmation of my views as to the coinage of the Revolt by new results of excavation.

P. GARDNER.

1 Gardner Nu~m. Chron. 1882, Pl. VIII: Babelon, Trait4, P1. XI: Br. Mus. Cat. Ionia, PI. XXXIV.

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