Greek Coins and Their Values Volume 2: Asia and Africa - Hardcover

Sear, David R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713478500 ISBN 13: 9780713478501

Publisher: Spink Books, 1979

Synopsis

The second volume of this catalogue deals with the issues of mints in Asia Minor (including the islands and Cyprus), Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine (including Jewish coins of the Hasmonaean dynasty), Arabia, Mesopotamia, and other regions of the East, Egypt, Cyrenaica, and other regions of North Africa (including Carthage); also covered are the coinages of the Hellenistic Monarchies (Macedon, Thrace, Seleucids of Syria, Ptolemies of Egypt, Pergamum, Pontus, Bithynia, Cappadocia, Armenia, Parthia, Bactria and Indo-Greeks). The primary arrangement is geographical (clockwise around the Mediterranean basin) and the listings for Asia Minor are divided between Archaic issues (before circa 480 BC) and Classical and Hellenistic (later 5th century down to 1st century BC).

About this title

Synopsis:

This catalogue of Greek coins commences with the earliest electrum coins of Ionia and Lydia and the subsequent coinages of Asia Minor, together with those coins struck under the Persian rule in the pre-Alexandrine age; the second part covers the city coinages of the Greek east from Syria and Phoenicia to Babylonia and Baktria. North Africa, including the important mints of Kyrene and Carthage forms the third part of the catalogue. The final section is devoted to the vast regal issues of the principal kingdoms of the Hellenistic Age ending with Cleopatra V11 whose death brought to an end the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. Historical notes provide background information.

About this edition

• Publisher: Spink Books
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0713478500
• ISBN 13: 9780713478501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 762