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Plan of the 2nd floor of Ilios Melathros
The Hall of the Hesperides presents the genesis of the coin, the method of its manufacture and the spread of its use in the ancient Greek world. In the 6th century BC, the Greek city-states began to issue their coins. The turtles of Aegina, the poloi of Corinth, the glaufkes of Athens were the first coins minted in Greece. Important information about monetary circulation and the economy in many areas of the Greek world is provided by “hoards”, closed sets of coins.
View of the Hall of the Hesperides "Treasure" of silver staters from Aegina (turtles), hidden around 440 BC. Found in Myrina, Karditsa, in 1970 A "treasure" of silver Athenian coins (glafkes), hidden in the last decades of the 4th century BC. Found in a funerary monument in Agios Ioannis Rentis, Attica, in 1962 "Treasure" of silver staters from Corinth and its colonies (polei), hidden in the first decades of the 3rd century BC. Found in Cephalonia in 1935