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Greek, Semitic, Asiatic Coins and How to Read Them. Richard J. Plant. Amherst, New York, Scorpion Publishers, 1979, first edition. Hardback, 257 pages. A very practical handbook for reading coin legends, dates, mints, and titles across a wide range of scripts, set out as a working guide rather than a regional catalogue. Plant moves from Greek and related alphabets, to Semitic scripts and their coinages, then through the major Indian alphabets...

A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks from circ. 700 B.C. to A.D. 270, based on the work of Barclay V. Head. (London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1965). Large octavo, 108 pages of text with 52 plates illustrating numerous coins, issued by the British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals. A handy and well illustrated guide to the principal Greek coin types and series across the wider classical period, especially useful for quick...

Greek Coin Types and Their Identification. Richard Plant (1979). Hardcover, 343 pages. A highly practical identification manual, built around thousands of crisp line drawings arranged by type categories, and designed to allow rapid matching of devices even when coins survive with only partial legends, worn surfaces, or weak strikes. Especially useful as a true bench reference, it remains one of those working books that saves real time when...

King Croesus? Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold Refining. Hardcover, 272 pages. A beautifully researched and highly readable study that links the legendary wealth of Lydia to the real industrial and scientific story behind it, drawing on the Harvard Cornell Sardis Expedition?s discovery of a sixth-century B.C. gold refinery where alluvial gold from the Pactolus River was processed to produce refined gold and silver. The...

Die Elektronmunzen von Phokaia und Mytilene. Friedrich Bodenstedt (Tubingen, 1981). x, 390 pages with 63 plates, together with maps, tables, and indices, in green cloth with gilt and dust jacket. The standard reference for the electrum hekte coinage of Phokaia and Mytilene, long regarded as the essential tool for serious attribution, comparison, and study of these fascinating early issues. A major specialist work, still regularly sought after...

The Archaic and Early Classical Coinages of the Cyclades. Kenneth A. Sheedy (London, Royal Numismatic Society, 2006). RNS Special Publication No. 40. Quarto, 261 pages with 20 plates, dust jacket over red linen with gilt spine lettering. An important modern study of one of the most fascinating and difficult areas of Greek numismatics, breaking new ground in the archaic and early classical coinages of the Cyclades and making highly effective...

Monete di Italia Antica e Magna Grecia. Eupremio Montenegro (Torino, Eupremio Montenegro Editore, 1996, first edition). A massive, single-volume Italian language reference covering the coinage of ancient Italy and Magna Graecia, presenting an encyclopedic run of types with individual listings and descriptive data that make it especially useful for day to day attribution, cataloguing, and price or type comparison across the pre-Roman and Greek...

Greek Coinages of Southern Italy and Sicily. N. K. Rutter (London, Spink, 1997). Octavo, 191 pages, illustrated throughout, in blue cloth with dust jacket. A thoughtful and highly useful survey of the Greek coinages of South Italy and Sicily from the later sixth century B.C. onward, using the numismatic record as a continuous guide to political and cultural development while exploring questions of identity, regional interaction, and the...

Numismatique de la Crete Ancienne, accompagnee de l?Histoire, la Geographie et la Mythologie de l?Ile. J. N. Svoronos (Bonn, 1972 reprint of the 1890 original). Hardcover, 376 pages with 38 plates, gilt lettering. A very important classic reference on the ancient coinage of Crete, uniting a substantial numismatic corpus with the wider historical, geographical, and mythological background of the island, and still regularly consulted and cited...

Ancient Greek Bronze Coins: European Mints from the Lindgren Collection. Henry Clay Lindgren (San Mateo, Chrysopylon Publishers, 1989). Large format (29 cm), xx + 89 pages with 89 plates, full cloth with titles to the front board, in dust jacket, a plate-rich reference drawn from the Lindgren Collection and especially useful for identification and comparison of European Greek bronze issues. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading...

Amphipolis: The Civic Coinage in Silver and Gold. Catherine C. Lorber (Los Angeles, Numismatic Fine Arts International, Inc., 1990). Large format, 22 ? 29 cm, 196 pages with 31 superb plates, seven indices, bibliography, and three appendices, hardbound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and dust jacket. A major die study of Amphipolis, one of the most artistic civic coinages of ancient Greece, recording more than 100 tetradrachms and over 150...

Essays in Greek Coinage Presented to Stanley Robinson. C. M. Kraay and G. K. Jenkins (eds.) (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1968). Hardcover with jacket, 263 pages, 33 black and white plates. A substantial Festschrift bringing together seventeen specialist studies by leading scholars, offering a wide sweep of Greek numismatic research from the earliest electrum and archaic issues through classical and Hellenistic problems, with several papers of...