Editing Persepolis (section)

====Apadana Palace coin hoard====
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| image1            = KINGS of LYDIA. Time of Cyrus to Darios I. Circa 545-520 BC.jpg
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| caption1          = Gold [[Croeseid]] minted in the time of [[Darius I|Darius]], of the type of the eight Croeseids found in the Apadana hoard, {{c.|545–520 BC}}. Light series: {{cvt|8.07|g}}, [[Sardis]] mint.
| image2            = Aegina Stater achaic.jpg
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| caption2          = Type of the [[Aegina]] stater found in the Apadana hoard, 550–530{{nbsp}}BC. Obverse: [[Sea turtle]] with large pellets down centre. Reverse: incuse square punch with eight sections.<ref name="ACH29">{{cite journal |last1=Zournatzi |first1=Antigoni |title=The Apadana Coin Hoards, Darius I, and the West |journal=American Journal of Numismatics |volume=15 |date=2003 |pages=1–28 |jstor=43580364}}</ref>
| image3            = THRACE, Abdera. Circa 540-35-520-15 BC.jpg
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| caption3          = Type of the [[Abdera, Thrace|Abdera]] coin found in the Apadana hoard, {{c.|540/35–520/15 BC}}. Obverse: Griffin seated left, raising paw. Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.<ref name="ACH29"/>
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{{Main|Apadana hoard|Achaemenid coinage}}
The [[Apadana hoard]] is a hoard of coins that were discovered under the stone boxes containing the foundation tablets of the [[Apadana Palace]] in Persepolis.<ref name="ACH29"/> The coins were discovered in excavations in 1933 by [[Erich Schmidt (archaeologist)|Erich Schmidt]], in two deposits, each deposit under the two deposition boxes that were found. The deposition of this hoard is dated to {{c.|515 BC}}.<ref name="ACH29"/> The coins consisted in eight gold lightweight [[Croeseid]]s, a [[tetradrachm]] of [[Abdera, Thrace|Abdera]], a stater of [[Aegina]] and three double-[[sigloi]] from [[Cyprus]].<ref name="ACH29"/> The Croeseids were found in very fresh condition, confirming that they had been recently minted under Achaemenid rule.<ref name="CHI"/> The deposit did not have any [[Daric]]s and [[Sigloi]], which also suggests strongly that these coins typical of [[Achaemenid coinage]] only started to be minted later, after the foundation of the Apadana Palace.<ref name="CHI">{{cite book |last1=Fisher |first1=William Bayne |last2=Gershevitch |first2=I. |last3=Boyle |first3=John Andrew |last4=Yarshater |first4=Ehsan |last5=Frye |first5=Richard Nelson |title=The Cambridge History of Iran |date=1968 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0521200912 |page=617 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBbyr932QdYC&pg=PA618 |language=en |access-date=20 November 2018 |archive-date=20 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420100934/https://books.google.com/books?id=BBbyr932QdYC&pg=PA618 |url-status=live }}</ref>