Athena in der Schmiede des Hephaistos - Militär-, wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtliche Implikationen von Münzbildern

Abstract

A coin of the Phrygian, not the Galatian Ancyra from the time of Philippus I (A. D. 244/249) on the reverse shows the goddess Athena in Hephaestus' smithy and not, as assumed before, a scene of striking coins. As shown by the comparison of medaillons, Hephaestus is forging a thunderbolt, symbol and arms of Athena, who in the old times had been a goddess of lightning and of the roads. Contrary to imperial coinage Hephaestus rather often is represented on the local coinage of the East. In some of the mints there are allusions to mining and metalwork, sometimes also to the production of arms. The coin from Ancyra Phrygiae published here refers to the production of arms in this City

Suggested citation

Nollé, Johannes: Athena in der Schmiede des Hephaistos - Militär-, wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtliche Implikationen von Münzbildern. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 45 (1995), pp. 51–77.