An Athenian Law on Silver Coinage

AMONG the many remarkable epigraphic discoveries of the recent Agora Excava-tions one of the most important for students of Greek numismatics and Athenian political institutions is the complete marble stele discussed in this paper. Valuable new evidence about the Nomothetai, the circulation of silver coins in Athens and Peiraieus, and about a hitherto little-known official, the Dokimastes, is preserved in considerable detail in this document. In addition to specific information about ancient counterfeit coins there are also no fewer than ten different public officials mentioned in this text which is fifty-six lines long and well-enough preserved to require very little restoration.'