The Thera/1910 hoard: a contribution to the history of Mesa Gonia, Santorini
(Ο «θησαυρός» Θήρα/1910: συμβολή στην ιστορία της Μέσα Γωνιάς Σαντορίνης)
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The publication, through the author’s documented text and rich illustrations, presents the hoard of coins discovered in 1910 at Mesa Gonia of Thera. The hoard, consisting of 450 charcoal coins of the 1167-1208 era, is now in the Numismatic Museum of Athens.
Serie: Memoranda Numismatica Atheniensia, No 3
ON 20 JUNE 1910 the German archaeologist Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen, excavator of Ancient Thera, donated to the Numismatic Museum at Athens a highly important numismatic find, discovered by a farmer in the village of Mesa Gonia, in the wider area of Episkopi. Hiller von Gaertringen’s experience and insightfulness, but mainly his view that a place’s history should be studied over time, led him to purchase the find and then to donate it to the Greek State. A laudable and moving gesture that bespeaks a virtuous and cultured scholar.
The said coin hoard not only enriches the still patchy historical testimony we have with respect to Byzantine Thera but also, as we shall see in due course, constitutes a critical document for extracting conclusions relating the area of Mesa Gonia in the early thirteenth century. […] (From the publisher)
