Weight variations in Lokroi Epizephirioi bronze coins: reduction of the standard or striking "al marco"?

Marianna Spinelli

Abstract

This paper proposes some observations on the weights of the Lokrian bronze coinage, so far little studied by researchers. Through a careful analysis of the series, aided by the sequence of the coinages that I studied recently in a doctoral research in progress, I have observed many cases of degradation of the coins weights of the same issue. The fact that this oscillation was often observed in coins struck practically contemporaneously from the same pair of dies or from the same obverse die only is not a proof of standard’s reduction within the same issue but of a generalization of “al marco” striking, which we have to be taken into account when we define the metrological system of the Lokroi mint and its relation with the tablets of the local sanctuary of Zeus Olympian tables and other Magna Graecia mints.

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