%0 Book %A Μάρκου, Ευαγγελινή %E %E Fondation Nationale de la Recherche ScientifiqueEditor %D 2011 %T L’or des rois de Chypre. Numismatique et Histoire à l’époque classique %@ ISBN: 978-960-7905-55-0 %I Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity/National Hellenic Research Foundation %P 379 %U https://hdl.handle.net/10442/13002 %X During the fourth century BC certain Cypriot kingdoms issued gold coinage. This is a remarkable phenomenon because the issue of coins in this metal was extremely rare before the gold staters of Philip II of Macedon, with the exception of the gold darics of the Great King of Persia. Which Cypriot kings issue gold coins? In which kingdoms? When and why? What are the sources of gold? Are these issues regular? What is the relation between these coinages and the political history of Cyprus? What is the role of the coinages in the coin circulation of the classical period and what is the weight standard and the exchange rates between gold and silver coinage? These are only some of the questions addressed in the present book, which focuses on the analysis of the monetary policy of the Cypriot kings through a corpus of their gold coinages organised by dies; it also discusses thoroughly the metrology and the metallurgical composition of these coinages. The literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources are related to the testimony of the coins, to illuminate the history of Cyprus down to the extinction of the autonomous kingdoms. %7 Α %> Αποθετήριο Ήλιος / ΕΙΕ