Long Table 168. Knossos, Crete. Coins, History, and Economies: Old Data in a New Perspective

Claudia Devoto (Università di Roma La Sapienza) will present her research on the coinage of Knossos, reviewing the coin series produced by the city from the opening of the mint until the Hellenistic age and contextualizing the city’s coin production within the broader historical and archaeological context of Knossos. While the earliest phases of this city have been thoroughly investigated, little is known about the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic age. The analysis of coin production, together with the review of archaeological, epigraphical, historical data, allows to shed light on some aspects of the economic and social dynamics of the city, offering at the same time a privileged point of view on some peculiar features of Cretan coinage such as overstriking, countermarking, and change of weight standard