Resumen de Monograms on Kibyra’s coins: names or numbers?
The monograms carried on Kibyra’s coins are actually quantitative indications about thevolume of coin issues. In fact, if we remember that in Greek the numbers were expressed with thesame letters of the alphabet, the inscriptions reported on those coins, instead of being monogramscomposed by letters indicating the name of the presumed monetary official (as generallyinterpreted), suddenly reveal to be figures indicating the issue’s size, that means the number ofcoins minted within that certain monetary series. So here we find that the issues of tetradrachmsminted in Kibyra were composed by 250,000 or 500,000 pieces while the issues of drachms werevery often composed by a million pieces.
