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1997
This paper puts into perspective recent literature (126 bibliographic references published during the years 1985-1990) for Hellenistic coinages struck in Asia Minor. Besides generalities and main topics (such as the coinages of Alexander the Great, the cistophoric coinage and the wreathed coinages struck c. 150 BC) or the publication of important hoards (such as Meydancikkale), the paper deals specifically with main areas (Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Mysia, Troad, Aeolis, Ionia, Caria, Phrygia, Lycia, Pisidia-PLycaonia-Pamphylia, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Armenia and Commagene).
A full die-study is given of the royal Bithynian tetradrachms for the years 98/7-74/3 BC. Monograms (control-marks) show that two mints were at work at the same type but with no connection (die-link) between themselves during the years 93/2-89/8 BC. Moreover, it seems likely to recognize two different portraits during these years. Hence the hypothesis that one is representing Nicomedes IV Philopator while the other would be for Socrates Chrestos, the usurper supported by Mithridates of Pontus. Surprisingly enough, the last Bithynian royal tetradrachms were struck in 75/4 and 74/3 BC, after many years with no strikes at all. We know that Mithridates of Pontus struck suddenly and intensively from February 75 BC. Instead to consider that Nicomedes IV was kind enough to make a last strike in order to help modern historians to date his death (then in 73 BC), it seems more appropriate tothink that the se last strikes are posthumous and that the intense preparations made by Mithridates in February 75 BC must coincide with the recent news of the death of Philopator and the bequest of his kingdom to Rome.
A Hellenistic tetradrachm of Maroneia recently sold in Paris shows clear marks of overstrike. These marks allow to identify with certainty the overstruck type: a tetradrachm of Mithridates Eupator, king of Pontus, not struck before 88 BC (and likely to date to August 85 BC). This has important and damaging consequences for the chronology of Maroneian tetradrachms as established by E. Schönert-Geiss which is to be lowered from half a century. We also discuss another overstrike (kept in Berlin) of a tetradrachm of Maroneia on Aesillas which also strongly invites us to substantially lower the accepted chronology (most of these Maroneian tetradrachms were issued during the first decades of the 1s c. BC and not during the 2nd c. BC). A connection with the first Mithridatic war is therefore not to be excluded. We gives a review of all the Pontic monetary evidence found on the western shores of the Black Sea.
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The Pontic area was monetized much later than the neighbouring Bithynia. To realize how much it was the case, we need to go further than to consider the simple existence of monetary issues. We need to observe what kind of coins were issued, what kind of hoards were recovered and not to forget the testimony of Xenophon
There is a general agreement that, as a rule (but with exception), ancient coinages were mostly issued to match state expenditures and that military expenses generally come first in any budget before the 19th c. This paper focuses on two particularly well documented cases for the Hellenistic kingdoms: Alexander the Great and Mithridates Eupator. For Alexander, not only the peak of strikes in the years 325-323BC has been related with the paying of the disbanded mercenaries but the very pattern of strikes seems to indicate the geographical origins of these mercenaries. It does not seem random indeed if the mints of Lampsacus and Abydus specialized producing gold staters (for the Thracians on their way back home) while the coastal mints of Western Asia Minor mainly issued drachms (for the continental Greek mercenaries). Since the silver tetradrachms of Mithridates are dated by month, they represent a unique opportunity to study the rhythm of their issues. It turns out that the link with military expenditures is extremely strong (if not the only one in this particular case). Soldiers were paid before or after (if successfull), not during the campaigns. Not all the soldiers were paid (as a quantitative analysis tends to demonstrate) and some actions, as the building of a fleet or the so-called second Mithridatic war (led only with tributary troops), didn't necessitate fresh issues of coins. We are thus left with the following statement: coins were struck for military purposes, but first to pay mercenaries.
O. PICARD et al. (eds.), Royaumes et cités hellénistiques de 323 à 55 av. J.-C., Paris, 2003, p. 218-234.
Les Mithridate du Pont : un exemple périphérique de rapport entre cités et rois hellénistiques2003 •
The paper aims to gather and put into perspectives studies published during the years 1990-1995 for coinages produced in Hellenistic Asia Minor. Beyond general topics such as the coins of Alexander the Great, Lysimachus and the Attalids (including the cistophori), main areas have been systematically investigated (Pontus, Paphlagonia and Bithynia, Mysia, Troad and Aeolis, Ionia, Caria [Karia], Phrygia, Lycia, Pamphylia, Pisidia and Lycaonia, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Armenia and Sophene. The bibliogtraphy amounts 196 entries.
Revue Numismatique, 170, 2013, p. 247-277.
'L. Sulla imperator' et 'imperator iterum' : pour une réévaluation de la chronologie des émissions monétaires de Sylla (RRC 367-368 et 359)2013 •
PUR : Presses universitaires de Rennes
« L’armée de Mithridate VI Eupator d’après Plutarque, Vie de Lucullus, VII, 4-6 », dans Bru (H.), Kirbihler (Fr.) et Lebreton (S.), éd., L’Asie Mineure dans l’Antiquité : échanges, populations et territoires, Rennes, 2009, p. 415-438.2009 •
Revue belge de Numismatique CLVIII, 2012, p. 328-330.
Review of J. DALAISON, L'atelier d'Amaseia du Pont. Recherches historiques et numismatiques, Bordeaux, 2008.F. Delrieux, Fr. Kayser, éd., Hommages offerts à François Bertrandy, Tome 1 : Des déserts d'Afrique au pays des Allobroges, Chambéry
"L'atelier monétaire de Pompeiopolis en Paphlagonie", in F. Delrieux, Fr. Kayser, éd., Hommages offerts à François Bertrandy, Tome 1 : Des déserts d'Afrique au pays des Allobroges, Chambéry, 2010, p. 45-812010 •
Revue Numismatique, 170
"Les divinités d’origine indigène et iranienne sur le monnayage des cités du Pont sous les premiers Sévères", Revue Numismatique, 170, 2013, p. 29-602013 •
Revue belge de Numismatique CLVIII, 2012, p. 320-322.
Review of F. DELRIEUX, Les monnaies des cités grecques de la basse vallée de l'Harpasos en Carie (IIe s. a. C. - IIIe s. p. C., Bordeaux, 2008.Revue belge de Numismatique, CLVIII, 2012, p. 322-325.
Review of B. WOYTEK, Die Reichsprägung des Kaisers Traianus (98-117), Wien, 2010.Anatolia Antiqua, 22
"La cité de Néapolis-Néoclaudiopolis. Histoire et pratiques monétaires", Anatolia Antiqua, 22, 2014, p. 159-1982014 •
L'artiste et l'antiquaire : L'étude de l'antique et son imaginaire à l'Epoque Moderne, dir. Emmanuel Lurin et Delphine Morana Burlot, Paris, INHA, 2017, p. 51-65.
Collectionner et publier les monnaies grecques dans les années 1550
