This book attempts to make accessible to students, scholars, and the lay public annotated, up-to-date information regarding the major coinages of the Greco-Roman world. An international group of experts has been asked to treat their areas of expertise, and the result is a broadly illustrated introduction to the subject.
Contributors
ix
Abbreviations
xiii
Preface
xvii
Introduction
3
(9)
William E. Metcalf
1 The Substance of Coinage: The Role of Scientific Analysis in Ancient Numismatics
12
(21)
Matthew J. Ponting
PART I ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK COINAGE
2 The Monetary Background of Early Coinage
33
(10)
John H. Kroll
3 Asia Minor to the Ionian Revolt
43
(18)
Koray Konuk
4 The Coinage of the Persian Empire
61
(27)
Michael Alram
5 The Coinage of Athens, Sixth to First Century B.C.
88
(17)
Peter G. van Alfen
6 Aegina, the Cyclades, and Crete
105
(23)
Kenneth Sheedy
7 The Coinage of Italy
128
(14)
N.K. Rutter
8 The Coinage of Sicily
142
(15)
Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert
9 Greece and the Balkans to 360 B.C.
157
Selene Psoma
William E. Metcalf is Professor of Classics, Yale University and Ben Lee Damsky Curator of Coins and Medals, Yale University Art Gallery.
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