The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman coinage / edited by William E. Metcalf.

"A large gap exists in the literature of ancient numismatics between general works intended for collectors and highly specialized studies addressed to numismatists. Indeed, there is hardly anything produced by knowledgeable numismatists that is easily accessible to the academic community at large or...

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Other Authors: Metcalf, William E.
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Coins, Greek > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Coins, Roman > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Greece > Antiquities > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Rome > Antiquities > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genre:
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Physical Description:xviii, 688 pages : illustrations ; cm.
Variant Title:
Handbook of Greek and Roman coinage.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / William E. Metcalf
  • 1.The Substance of Coinage: The Role of Scientific Analysis in Ancient Numismatics / Matthew J. Ponting
  • pt. I Archaic and Classical Greek Coinage
  • 2.The Monetary Background of Early Coinage / John H. Kroll
  • 3.Asia Minor to the Ionian Revolt / Koray Konuk
  • 4.The Coinage of the Persian Empire / Michael Alram
  • 5.The Coinage of Athens, Sixth to First Century B.C. / Peter G. van Alfen
  • 6.Aegina, the Cyclades, and Crete / Kenneth Sheedy
  • 7.The Coinage of Italy / N.K. Rutter
  • 8.The Coinage of Sicily / Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert
  • pt.2 The Hellenistic World
  • 10. Royal Hellenistic Coinages from Alexander to Mithridates / Francois de Callata
  • 11. The Hellenistic World: The Cities of Mainland Greece and Asia Minor / Richard Ashton
  • 12. The Coinage of the Ptolemies / Catharine C. Lorber
  • 13. The Seleucids / Arthur Houghton
  • 14. Greek Coinages of Palestine / Oren Tal
  • 15. The Coinage of the Parthians / Fabrizio Sinisi
  • The Roman World
  • 16. Early Roman Coinage and its Italian Context / Andrew Burnett
  • 17. The Denarius Coinage of the Roman Republic / Bernhard E. Woytek
  • 18. The Julio-Claudians / Rienhold Wolters
  • 19. Ancient Spain / Pere P. Ripolles
  • 20. Flavian Coinage / Ian Carradice
  • 21. The Coinage of the Provinces through Hadrian / Michel Amandry
  • 22. Trajan and Hadrian / Martin Beckmann
  • 23. Antonine Coinage / Liv Mariah Yarrow
  • 24. The Provinces after Commodus / Ann Johnston
  • 25. Syria in the Roman Period, 64 B.C. - A.D. 260 / Kevin Butcher
  • 26. Roman Coinages of Palestine / Haim Gitler
  • 27. The Severans / Richard Abdy
  • 28. From Gordian III to the Gallic Empire (A.D. 238-74) / Roger Bland
  • 29. The Later Third Century / Sylviane Estiot
  • 30. The Coinage of Roman Egypt / Angelo Geissen
  • 31. Tetrarchy and the House of Constantine / Richard Abdy
  • 32. The Coinage of the Later Roman Empire, A.D. 364-498 / Sam Moorhead
  • 33. The Transformation of the West / Alan M. Stahl
  • Appendix 1: Marks of value on later Roman coins / Roger Bland
  • Appendix 2: The earliest Christian symbols on Roman coins / Richard Abdy
  • Indices: a. Mints
  • b. Persons
  • c. General.