Athenian tetradrachm, minted after 449 BC.Posthumous tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, minted on the Attic weight at Amphipolis, 315–294 BC.
Attic weight, or the Attic standard, also known as Euboic standard, was one of the main monetary standards in ancient Greece. As a result of its use in the coinage of the Athenian empire and the empire of Alexander the Great, it was the dominant weight standard for coinage issued in the Eastern Mediterranean from the fifth century BC until the introduction of the Roman denarius to the region in the late first century BC.
The Attic weight was based on a drachma of 4.31 grams, but in practice the main denomination was the tetradrachm or four-drachma coin, which weighed approximately 17.26 g[1] in silver. For larger sums, the units of account were the mina (100 drachmae or 435 g), and the talent (6,000 drachmae or 26.1 kg).
In practice, this meant that the Attic weight standard was interchangeable with the Euboic standard used on the island of Euboea, which consisted of a stater of 17.2 g divided into six hektai of 2.86 g. Because of Euboea's role in Greek colonisation in the Archaic period, the latter standard was widespread in the Greek West and Pontic regions.[2]
^Roger S. Bagnall (1976). The Administration of the Ptolomaic Possessions Outside Egypt: With 3 Maps. Brill Archive. ISBN 90-04-04490-6.
Atticweight, or the Attic standard, also known as Euboic standard, was one of the main monetary standards in ancient Greece. As a result of its use in...
its former weight. As the Athenian league's influence expanded over the Mediterranean, the Attic standard became one of the major weight standards adopted...
Hellenistic world, was smaller than the dominant Atticweight (about 17.28 grams) which was the weight of standard Hellenistic tetradrachm. Consequentially...
restricted to a few city-states; others, notably the Attic-Euboean standard, became very widespread. Weight standards tended to decline over time, because mints...
Propontis. Alexander's adoption of the Atticweight brought demise of all other weight standards except for the Attic and Rhodian standards. Rhodian standard...
Alexander the Great, which in turn were based on Athenian coinage of the Atticweight. Many mints and different issues are defined, with mainly base and silver...
regarding the pronunciation of Attic Greek and other Ancient Greek dialects are unknown, but it is generally agreed that Attic Greek had certain features...
the region and he opened a number of mints to produce coinage on the Atticweight standard. After Antiochus I succeeded his father as ruler of the Seleucid...
170-145 BC). Euthydemus' gold and silver issues are all minted on the Atticweight standard with a tetradrachm of ca. 16.13 g and all have the same basic...
in his currency: earlier issues depicted the head of Athena, whilst Attic-weight tetradrachms struck later in Audoleon's reign imitated the coinage of...
Dreyfus, Renée; Schraudolph, Ellen (1996). "Attalid Silver Coinage of the AtticWeight Standard". Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar, Volume...
and 163. ISBN 9780198786924. Psoma, Selene E. (2013). "War or Trade? Attic-Weight Tetradrachms from Second-Century BC Attalid Asia Minor in Seleukid Syria...
respectively), while others conform to the hemiobol and quarter obol of the Atticweight standard (0.315 g and 0.195 g, respectively)." For the larger transactions...
Greek communities in Sicily, it was minted solely in silver on the Attic-Euboic weight standard, and its iconography was mostly adapted from other pre-existing...
problematical at best. Further compounding the problem are differences in how weights were measured. Kleber, Kristin (2015). "Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire"...
gold staters and silver tetradrachms, drachms, and hemidrachms on the Atticweight standard. These coins have the head of a male figure on the obverse shown...
Aegina. The Attic/Euboean standard was supposedly based on the barley corn, of which there were supposedly twelve to one obol. However, weights that have...
was a mint in the new capital. Silver tetradrachms and drachms of the Atticweight are known. Nicomedes I is known to have struck some bronze coinage too...
measure of weight used for large amounts of coinage (bullion, bulk coin), rather than an individual coin. Seven Babylonian talents equalled ten Attic talents...
in Attic Greek, a short vowel followed by a plosive and a liquid consonant or nasal stop remains a short or "open" syllable. This is called Attic correption...
framing to radiate heat downward through the roof space (attic / ceiling cavity) toward the attic floor / upper ceiling surface. When a radiant barrier is...
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