Author : Margaret Thompson
Publisher : American Numismatic Society
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780897220682
An inventory of 2387 hoards of Greek hoards with a cut-off point of 30 BC. The hoards are presented geographically, beginning with Greece itself and encompassing the Near East, Egypt, Italy, North Africa, Spain and Gaul.
Author : Margaret Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Ute Wartenberg
Publisher : Spink Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
This, the ninth volume of Coin Hoards, is again dedicated solely to hoards of Greek coins. It includes hoards from all areas around the Mediterranean from the sixth century BC to the second century AD. Coin Hoards IX, together with the previous volumes in the series, thus forms an essential supplement to the Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards, published in 1973 by Thompson, Morkholm and Kraay. Since the last volume, published eight years ago, the number of Greek coin hoards has increased considerably. Not only does this volume list new hoards, but it also updates and often amends information on hoards already published. Overall, the inventory for this volume consists of 744 entries, with detailed references to find-spot (if known), content, approximate burial date and bibliography. In addition to the inventory, Coin Hoards IX also contains the detailed publication of a number of significant hoards. An important aspect of this volume is the inclusion of 66 plates of photographs illustrating a large proportion of those coins described. This volume will be in indispensable tool for all future research in the field.
Author : Sydney Philip Noe
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Coin hoards
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Houghton
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Coins, Ancient
ISBN :
Author : W. V. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 019161517X
Most people have some idea what Greeks and Romans coins looked like, but few know how complex Greek and Roman monetary systems eventually became. The contributors to this volume are numismatists, ancient historians, and economists intent on investigating how these systems worked and how they both did and did not resemble a modern monetary system. Why did people first start using coins? How did Greeks and Romans make payments, large or small? What does money mean in Greek tragedy? Was the Roman Empire an integrated economic system? This volume can serve as an introduction to such questions, but it also offers the specialist the results of original research.
Author : Richard Nelson Frye
Publisher : C.H.Beck
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Iran
ISBN : 9783406093975
Author : Harold B. Mattingly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780472113316
Collects in one volume many rare papers on a range of numismatic studies
Author : Thomas Figueira
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0812201906
Was Athens an imperialistic state, deserving all the reputation for exploitation that adjective can imply, or was the Athenian alliance, even at its most unequal, still characterized by a convergence of interests? The Power of Money explores monetary and metrological policy at Athens as a way of discerning the character of Athenian hegemony in midfifth-century Greece. It begins with the Athenian Coinage Decree, which, after decades of scholarly attention, still presents unresolved questions for Greek historians about content, intent, date, and effect. Was the Decree an act of commercial imperialism or simply the codification of what was already current practice? Figueira interprets the Decree as one in a series concerned with financial matters affecting the Athenian city-state and emerging from the way the collection of tribute functioned in the alliance that we call the Athenian empire. He contends that the Decree served primarily to legislate the status quo ante.
Author : Frank L. Holt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0520920090
Thundering Zeus uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to resolve one of the greatest puzzles in all of Hellenistic history. This book explores the remarkable rise of a Greek-ruled kingdom in ancient Bactria (modern Afghanistan) during the third century B.C. Diodotus I and II, whose dynasty emblazoned its coins with the dynamic image of Thundering Zeus, led this historic movement by breaking free of the Seleucid Empire and building a strong independent state in Central Asia. The chronology and crises that defined their reigns have been established here for the first time, and Frank Holt sets this new history into the larger context of Hellenistic studies. The best sources for understanding Hellenistic Bactria are archaeological, and they include a magnificent trove of coins. In addition to giving a history of Bactria, Thundering Zeus provides a catalog of these coins, as well as an introduction to the study of numismatics itself. Holt presents this fascinating material with the precision and acuity of a specialist and with the delight of an admirer, providing an up-to-date full catalog of known Diodotid coinage, and illustrating twenty-three coins. This succinct, energetic narrative thunders across the history of Hellenistic Bactria, exhuming coins, kingdoms, and customs as it goes. The result is a book that is both a history and a history of discovery, with much to offer those interested in ancient texts, archaeology, and coins.
