Argyrocopeum, also transliterated as
Argyrocopeion or
Argyrokopeion () was the place where money was coined in
ancient Greece, especially minting with silver. In
Classical Athens it appears to have been in or adjoining the chapel (heroön) of a hero named Stephanephorus, in which were kept the standard weights for the coins. In similar fashion, standard weights were kept in the Temple of Juno Moneta in the
Roman Forum.
See also
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Laurium, the place of the silver mint in Attica, outside Athens.
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Julius Pollux, vii. 103; Harpocration.; Suda.,; Bockh, Corp..Inscr. vol. i. p. 164, and the explanation of that inscription in his Public Economy of Athens^ p. 144,. 2nd ed.; comp. talentbm.)
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αργυροκοπ- inscriptions.
