THE ARTHUR S. DEWING COLLECTION OF GREEK COINS Edited By LEO MILDENBERG and SILVIA HURTER TEXT ANCIENT COINS IN NORTH AMERICAN COLLECTIONS PUBLIsHED BY THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY NEW YORK 1985 Generated for anonymous on 2015-02-15 19:19 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041891659 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 ANCIENT COINS IN NORTH AMERICAN COLLECTIONS No. 6 Generated for anonymous on 2015-02-15 19:19 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041891659 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 ARTHUR STONEDEWING Generated for anonymous on 2015-02-15 19:19 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041891659 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 GL 1/23 í4/</7 -г) n TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD vü ARTHUR STONE DEWING, Three Reflections ix THE COLLECTION Ueli Friedländer, Zurich. Celtic Coins Nos. 1-71 Patricia Erhart Mottahedeh, Princeton. Italy: Etruria-Apulia . 72-121 Keith Rutter, Edinburgh. Italy: Calabria 122-332 Patricia Erhart Mottahedeh. Italy: Lucania-Bruttium .... 333-544 Christof Boehringer, Göttingen. Sicily-Carthage 545-995 Fred S. Kleiner, Boston. Macedonia 996-1235 Hyla A. Troxell, Upper Montclair, New Jersey. Thrace . 1236-1362 Alan S. Walker, Zurich. Thessaly-Aegina 1363-1695 Geraldine Ramer, Boston. Corinth and Colonies 1696-1825 Silvia Hurter, Zurich. Phliasia-Crete 1826-2101 Ursula Pause-Dreyer, Munich and Silvia Hurter. Bosporus-Ionia . 2102-2349 Hyla A. Troxell. Caria-Cappadocia 2350-2555 Arthur Houghton, Malibu. Syria-Mauretania 2556-2797 INDICES 1. Cities, Leagues, Tribes, Areas 181 2. Kings, Satraps, Dynasts, etc. 184 3. Obverse Types 186 4. Reverse Types 189 5. Hoards 193 Generated for anonymous on 2015-02-15 19:19 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041891659 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 FOREWORD Arthur Dewing's cataloguing methods reveal much about him as a collector. Using a card system, Dewing noted a number of details about each coin immediately upon acquir- ing it: the supplier; year of acquisition; the price; and those particulars which he deemed important—such as whether it came from a hoard. For identification, he carefully out- lined each coin on the card. He numbered each new acquisition based on the page numbers of B. V. Head's Historia Numorum. If a new piece of the same or similar type was to be added, it received an A or a or a suffix. A more complicated system can hardly be imagined, but his cards had to serve him alone. And they did it well. When the Dewing Foundation, to whom the coins passed by bequest, decided to publish the collection, these cards proved surprisingly useful, facilitating the work of the authors in their task of providing all essential numismatic data for each coin. The Dewing assemblage of ancient Greek coins cannot easily be compared with other large collections of its kind. Sir Herman Weber amassed about twice the number of Dewing's holdings. But Weber and others gave full attention to the bronze issues which our collector chose to neglect entirely. Did his suppliers not have the stamina to break through his self-forged armor and inspire him to see the beauty and importance of Greek bronze coins? Jameson was drawn to the finest in art and state of preservation; Dewing, however, saw the history behind the coin and the unique accomplishment of each die. He collected the minors—the diminutive silver coins—long before they became fashion- able. At the same time he was literally fascinated by the great series of Syracusan silver coinage and in particular by the decadrachms which he went after in a fantastic if not fanatical way. Has any private collector before or after him acquired even half the number of Dewing's decadrachms? Great Greek coins which he owned, or knew of, were the life companions of a man who excelled as a scholar and businessman. When we first met by chance in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, he immediately pounced on me with his famous query: "Do you have an Aitna tetradrachm in your pocket?" Whereupon I replied, "Is the Brussels Aitna the coin of your dreams?" I saw a quick and piercing look in his eyes before he quietly nodded his bearded head. When, in fact, another unique coin of Aitna came our way, Dewing turned it down—it was different from his dream coin. Our sincere thanks go to Professor Dewing's daughters who made this publication pos- sible; to Kenton J. Ide of the Dewing Foundation; to all the authors; to the late Frances M. Schwartz who rendered invaluable help to the editors; to Robert J. Myers who photographed the coins; to Leslie A. Elam and his colleagues at the American Numismatic Society; and to the printer René de Meester. Leo Mildenberg Bank Leu Ltd. Zurich, Switzerland Generated for anonymous on 2015-02-15 19:19 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041891659 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 ARTHUR STONE DEWING Three Reflections Arthur Dewing was born in Boston on April 16, 1880 and died there on January 19, 1971 in his 91st year. As he often said, he was not a strong child, and his mother had to work hard to give him the best of an early education. He grew healthy through a devotion to the outdoors and the puritan virtues of his New England forebears. His three academic degrees were all earned at Harvard, A.B. in 1902, A.M. in 1903, and the Ph.D. in 1905. Like so many of his generation, he did further graduate study in Germany, at the Univer- sity of Munich. His teaching career was mainly at Harvard, from 1902 to 1913 in philos- ophy and from 1911 to 1933 in economics and finance. He rose to be a professor and one of the founders of the Harvard Business School. Arthur Dewing's family was the happiest. In 1910 he married a fellow philosopher, Frances Rousmaniere, and they are survived by three daughters (Mrs. Lloyd Morain, Mrs. Stuart Avery, Jr., and Mrs. James Ewing), many grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. On April 16, 1970 Mr. Dewing's daughters gave him a big party for family and friends in the ancestral homestead on Waverly Avenue in Newton. Seated in an old leather arm- chair, two great-grandchildren at his knee, Arthur Dewing could have been easily taken for a patriarch of another age, the "Angel of Hadley," for instance. During the last 20 years of his life he liked to refer to himself as "Old Methuselah," and so he seemed on this oc- casion. It is often hard to separate fact from legend in the life of a great man, and so it was with Arthur Dewing, even in his lifetime. His vast and complex business enterprises occupied only part of his time from the Great Depression onwards. His concern for the antiquities of his native New England led him onto the boards of a number of worthy associations, notably the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, of which he was a president. His frugal habits, combined with his tall, spare, commanding presence, made him a walking advertisement for the Spartan life of bygone America wherever he went. Many years ago he and I went together from Stack's, the famous coin store then on West 46th Street in New York City, to the Automat around the corner on Fifth Avenue. "What will you have, sir," asked the man behind the hot dishes, as we pushed our trays along in the line. The reply came like Olympian thunder (and people at the tables nearby turned to look), "Why beans, of course, I'm from Boston!" Arthur Dewing's writings are classics. His Financial Policy of Corporations was first published in 1920 and has gone through many editions and revisions since that date. It is full of classical references, parts having been written or rewritten with the rolling hills above Aulis and the plain of Marathon fresh in mind. Mr. Dewing attributed his love of the classics to the inspired teaching of George Herbert Palmer at Harvard, the Hellenist whose Generated for anonymous on 2015-02-15 19:19 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041891659 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 x Arthur Stone Dewing "wine-dark sea" translations of Homer were read in every school and college throughout the United States at least until the Lattimore translations of the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. Dewing's practical applications of the classics took the form not only of writing and travel in Hellenic lands but of social obligations and collecting. He was long a trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America, president of the Boston Society (the Institute's oldest chapter), a member of the Council of the American Numis- matic Society, and that wonderful organization's president during difficult years of re- organization between 1947 and 1949. During his earlier trips to Greece, Mr. Dewing began collecting Greek vases, Geometric urns, Corinthian aryballoi, and simple Attic lekythoi of the type one used to see in village shops or in the stores of Pandrosou Street ("Shoe Lane") in Athens. He added to the collection by purchasing important black-figure and red-figure Athenian vases of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., the traditional pinnacle of Greek art, at auctions or from dealers in England and America.