Numismatic Conference: Coinage in Imperial Space. Continuity or change from the Acheamenid to Hellenistic kingdoms? Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University; the National Museum in Cracow; University of Oxford 28th June - 2nd July 2017 The second book of the pseudo-Aristotelian Oikonomika famously divides economies into four types: Royal (βασιλική), Satrapal (σατραπική), Civic (πολιτική) and Personal (ἰδιωτική). As a theoretical examination of the nature of economies in the ancient Greek world it is all but unique. Although generally given to late 4th century BC, and the school of Aristotle, it is clear from the structure and the terminology of this broad analysis that it was written certainly with the Achaemenid Empire and its satrapal institutions in mind, even if it does belong to the period of foundation of the first Macedonian kingdoms in the East. It is thus a text of capital importance for the investigation of the transition from the practices of the Persian Empire to the Greeks. In this context, its discussion of monetary administration becomes a matter of potentially major significance in the interpretation of the nature and role of coinage in this period of profound change. The administration of coinage, for the author of this treatise, belongs solely in the realm of the King. This presupposition raises a number of questions. Is this true for the period of Achaemenid reign over coin-producing areas? It has become conventional among numismatists to attribute coinages to cities, satraps, karanoi, minor kings and dynasts as well as to the Great King himself. Do we need to re-think the categorisation of these coinages? Do we need to reassess the agents behind these coinages and their ability to strike coinage? Or is the Oikonomika simply wrong? And what about the years after Alexander’s conquest? Can the new world of his empire and the kingdoms that immediately followed provide a better or different context for the assumption so strongly asserted in the Oikonomika? Did the post-Achaemenid world see a transformation in the role and nature of coinage on the new imperial territories? Did coinage become the prerogative or concern of the king alone? Did the Macedonian conquest mark a period of massive change in the monetary administration of large imperial territories? This conference is designed to arrange a dispute over these questions and to discuss other issues related to the monetary administration of the Mediterranean Achaemenid empire and of Alexander the Great and the early successor kingdoms. It will in part take a regional approach by asking experts in specific regions to examine the coinages either side of the conquest and apply the filter of ps.-Aristotle to the data they find there. Historians and historians of the economy will attend it either to set this specifically monetary history against a broader framework of administrative and economic practices from the ‘Achaemenid’ to the ‘Hellenistic’ period. Among the confirmed speakers are: Peter van Alfen (American Numismatic Society), Michael Alram (Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna), Jarosław Bodzek (Jagiellonian University), François de Callataÿ (Royal Library of Belgium), Karsten Dahmen (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Frédérique Duyrat (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Haim Gitler (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem), Panagiotis Iossif (Université de Liège/Belgian School of Archaeology at Athens, Greece), Aleksandra Jankowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), Alicja Jurkiewicz (Jagiellonian University), Koray Konuk (French National Center for Scientific Research - CRNS), Evangeline Markou (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens), Andrew Meadows (University of Oxford), Mariusz Mielczarek (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Łódź), Marek Jan Olbrycht (University of Rzeszów), Ulrike Peter (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Selene Psoma (University of Athens), Sławomir Sprawski (Jagiellonian University), Oren Tal (Tel Aviv University), Christopher Tuplin (University of Liverpool), Ute Wartenberg-Kagan (American Numismatic Society), Bernhard Weisser (Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin). Venue: The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum, 12 Józefa Piłsudskiego Street, 31-109 Krakow, Poland Language: English Conference fee: Regular participants - 75 €/330 PLN; Students and PhD students - 25 €/110 PLN FEE PAYMENT DEADLINE IS 31st MAY 2017 Registration: http://www.konferencje-uj.pl/?lang=en&go2rej=1&kid=215 REGISTRATION IS OPEN UNTIL 31st MAY 2017 More information: http://www.coinageinimperialspace.org/ Questions and information about the registration & conference: coinageinimperialspace@gmail.com Other: The organizers are not able to pay travel or accommodation expenses. However, all the instructions how to get to the conference venue can be found on our website. You will also find there some recommendations for various accommodation options. Scientific Committee: Andrew Meadows, Jarosław Bodzek Organising Committee: Andrew Meadows, Jarosław Bodzek, Barbara Zając, Alicja Jurkiewicz, Paweł Gołyźniak