Mint of Athens

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The Mint of Athens was an ancient Greek facility in the Athenian Agora where the city’s coinage, including its famous silver drachmas, was produced.

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Label Occurrences
Athenian mint 1
Laurion silver mines 1
Mint of Athens canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient mint
archaeological site
associatedWith Athenian democracy
Athenian economy
Athenian imperial coinage
coinTypeProduced Athenian drachma
surface form: Athenian owl drachma

owl tetradrachm
country Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
culture Ancient Greek
currencyStandard Attic standard
depictionOnCoins head of Athena
owl of Athena
economyRole production of state coinage
support of Athenian military finance
support of Athenian trade
governedBy Athenian financial officials
Athenian magistrates
hasSiteType industrial facility
public building
heritageStatus archaeological remains
languageOfInscription Ancient Greek
locatedIn Ancient Agora of Athens
surface form: Athenian Agora

Athens
Attica
Greece
locatedNear other public buildings of the Athenian Agora
materialUsed silver
operatedBy polis of Athens
surface form: Athenian polis

city of Athens
ownedBy Athenian Empire
surface form: Athenian state
partOf urban center of Classical Athens
period Classical period of Ancient Greece
product Athenian drachma
Athenian silver coinage
Athenian tetradrachm
regionServed Athenian Empire
Delian League
relatedTo Ancient Agora of Athens
surface form: Athenian Agora excavations
significance major center of coin production in the ancient Greek world
source of the famous Athenian owl coins
technologyUsed struck coinage
timeOfUse 4th century BCE
5th century BCE
usedFor coin production
minting of drachmas
minting of silver coins
minting of tetradrachms

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Ancient Agora of Athens hasPart Mint of Athens
Ways and Means discusses Mint of Athens
this entity surface form: Laurion silver mines
ΑΘΕ (abbreviation of Athēnaiōn) usedBy Mint of Athens
subject surface form: ΑΘΕ
this entity surface form: Athenian mint