Objekt 8110
The Greco-Roman World
Description
Coin and un-coined money
The ancient Greeks made the switch from weighed metal to coins towards the end of the 7th century BC with the introduction of coins in electrum, a gold-silver alloy. By contrast the Romans abandoned weighed bronze as commodity money only three centuries later. In the Greek southern part of the Italian peninsula they did, however, mint silver coins based on the Greek model already some decades earlier. But even in Greece, pre-monetary forms of currency like the Black Sea dolphin coinage remained in circulation for a long time.
Object description
upper level, in the middle:
The Beginnings
Electrum (pale gold) bar, dating unsecure
Mytilene/Lesbos, electrum hekte with lion head, c. 500 BC
Teos, silver stater with griffin, c. 500 BC
Aegina, silver drachm with turtle, c. 480 BC
Inv. 1989.595., 1908.1943., 1908.2007., 1908.1442.
on the right:
Drachms and Dolphin money
Amisos and Sinope in the Black Sea area, silver drachms, 4th cent.
BC Olbia/Crimea, dolphin money, 4th cent. BC
Inv. 1908.1904., 1951.307.; 2009.175.1.-5.
right end:
Roman Greek style coins
Roman Republic, mint in Campania, silver staters and copper litrae according to the Greek coinage system, first half of 3rd cent. BC
Inv. 1908.445. (galvano), 1908.442., 1908.453., 1908.455.
lower level:
Raw and standardized bars
Roman Republic, aes rude and aes signatum, 4th to 3rd cent. BC
Cast bronze. Inv. 2006.188.1.-7., 2004.225.
Audios
Berliner Philharmoniker, Dir. Jonathan Nott The Ligeti Project 2, 2002, Teldec 8573-88261-2
Berliner Philharmoniker, Dir. Jonathan Nott The Ligeti Project 2, 2002, Teldec 8573-88261-2
Berliner Philharmoniker, Dir. Jonathan Nott The Ligeti Project 2, 2002, Teldec 8573-88261-2