Tas sitarchias kai tous misthous ([Arist.], Oec. 1351b). Bronze Currencies and Cash-Allowances in Mainland Greece, Thrace and the Kingdom of Macedonia [34 p., 2 pl.]

 

Auteur

 

Selene Psoma, University of Athens, Dept. of History, Panep/poli, GR-15784 Ilissia.
e-mail : spsoma@eie.gr

Abstract

This paper examines cash payments for rations and the types of bronze coinages minted to make these payments. It analyses a passage in the Economica attributed to Aristotle, which describes the introduction of a bronze coinage designed to pay the sitarchia (siteresion, sitonion etc.) and provides a study of these terms used to denote these payments. It looks also at the use of bronze coins for military payments in Mainland Greece, the Kingdom of Macedonia and Thrace, examines the diffusion of Macedonian Royal Currencies in Thrace and Mainland Greece, the places where bronze currencies of the Ptolemies and the Seleucids are found in Thrace and Mainland Greece and studies the bronze currencies struck by cities in relation with war operations. The major innovation in the use of bronze coinage during the Hellenistic period: the minting and distribution of bronze coinage by military officials acting on their own authority.

 

 

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