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THE

IONIAN

CONFEDERACY.-ADDENDUM.

IN

my

recent article

on

the

Ionian

Confederacy1

I

omitted

to mention

an

important

piece

of evidence

relating

to the

League

in

its

most critical

days.

It

has been

shown

by

Prof.

P. Gardner that

during

the

Ionian

Revolt

a monetary convention was established among a group of insurgent cities.2

Several

Ionian towns,

whose number

cannot at

present

be shown

to

have

exceeded

nine

or

ten,

but

may

be extended

by

further

research,3

issued

a

set

of electrum

coins

with

an

identical

reverse

pattern

on

the

same standard

of

weight.

The common

type

would

appear

to have been

derived

from

Chios;

the standard

of

weight

is that

of

Miletus.

The

affinities between

these

pieces

are sufficient

to

prove

some

sort

of

political

entente

among

the

Ionian

cities.

Yet

they

fall

far short

of

con-

stituting

a

proper

federal

coinage. They

bear

no name or

mark

of a

federal

issuing authority, and their obverse types are unmistakably

those

of

the

several

federating

towns.

It

is

evident

that

the

coins were

the

product

of

various

municipal

mints,

a fact which

goes

a

long

way

to

disprove

the

existence

of

a federal

mint.

The

coins

aptly

illustrate

the arrested state of

development

in

which

the

League

stood

at

the time of

its first dissolution

by

the Persians.

Com-

pared

with

the

money

of the

Chalcidian

and

Aetolian,

and

even

that of

the

Boeotian

and

Achaean

Leagues,

they

proclaim

that

the

Ionian

Confederacy

was

a

merely

inchoate

union.

M. 0.

B.

CASPARI.

J.H.S.

1915,

pp.

173-188.

2J.H.S.

1911,

pp.

152-156.

A

4

priori,

it

is more

than

likely

that

the

monetary

convention

was

joined

by

Miletus,

the

ringleader

in

the

Ionian

Revolt.

The

inclusion of

Priene

in the

convention,

which

Prof. Gardner

considered

probable

on

general

grounds,

has since

been

proved

by

a fresh

find

of

coins

J.H.S.

1913,

p.

105).

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