Monograms on Kibyra’s coins: names or numbers?

Federico De Luca

Résumé


The monograms carried on Kibyra’s coins are actually quantitative indications about the
volume of coin issues. In fact, if we remember that in Greek the numbers were expressed with the
same letters of the alphabet, the inscriptions reported on those coins, instead of being monograms
composed by letters indicating the name of the presumed monetary official (as generally
interpreted), suddenly reveal to be figures indicating the issue’s size, that means the number of
coins minted within that certain monetary series. So here we find that the issues of tetradrachms
minted in Kibyra were composed by 250,000 or 500,000 pieces while the issues of drachms were
very often composed by a million pieces.

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