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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 4654423, member: 96635&quot;]I remember reading in &quot;The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources&quot; by Peter Thonemann that the cistophoric was introduced by Pergamon to keep control of their silver by closing or limiting the circulation zone. Outside the Pergamene kingdom the coin lost it value as in Pergamon it was worth 4 drachms, but outside the kingdom only 3 (attic) drachms, so the silver would always stay within Pergamon. It is also most likely that the weight is based on the Rhodian standard and that it could circulate within the Rhodian-Pergamene territory, which was vast at that time because these two city states were supporters of Rome and gained quite some territory of them after the Treaty of Apamea.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Pergamene royal currency in Attic standard also stopped during this time, but the king promoted the civic tetradrachms within his territory, these were struck in Attic weight and was used by the king for example to support the pretender Alexander I Balas (there are quite some hoards in Syria with uncirculated civic tetradrachms from Asia Minor).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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