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Methods of Chemical and Metallurgical Investigation of Ancient Coinage. E. T. Hall and D. M. Metcalf (eds.) (London, Royal Numismatic Society, 1972). RNS Special Publication No. 8, small 4to, viii, 446 pages with figures, charts, tables, and 20 plates, in original red cloth with dust jacket. A scarce and important collection of specialist studies on the scientific examination of coinage, bringing together a wide range of analytical methods...

Samarian Coinage. Yaakov Meshorer and Shraga Qedar. Jerusalem, Israel Numismatic Society, 1999 (Numismatic Studies and Researches, Vol. IX). Large hardback in the original red dust jacket, 127 pages of text plus 31 full-page plates. The standard modern corpus for Samarian coinage of the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, laid out for accurate attribution with a clear numbering system, historical background, and detailed technical chapters...

Guide to Ancient Jewish Coins. David Hendin (New York, Attic Books, 1976, first edition). Hardcover with dust jacket, 8vo, 134 pages, black and white illustrations, with values by Herbert Kreindler. An early and highly useful collector?s guide to the coinage of ancient Judaea and related biblical era issues, written to support practical attribution through clear descriptions and well chosen illustrations, and valued for bringing order and...

Guide to Biblical Coins, 4th Edition. David Hendin (Nyack, New York, Amphora, 2001). The expanded fourth edition of the most widely used practical reference for ancient Biblical and Jewish coinage, produced to serve both beginning and advanced collectors while preserving the familiar Hendin numbering system used in earlier editions. This edition is the most complete at the time of publication, listing more than 550 different coins with...

Guide to Biblical Coins, Fifth Edition. David Hendin (2010). Hardcover. The fully revised and updated edition of Hendin?s bestselling standard reference for ancient Judaean and Biblical coinage, expanded to reflect new archaeological discoveries and the work of a new generation of specialists, and long established as the everyday attribution tool for collectors, dealers, and scholars in this field. This edition adds a complete illustrated...

The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War. Leo Mildenberg (Aarau, 1984). 396 pages with 44 plates, published as Typos VI, red cloth with dust jacket. The definitive corpus of the Bar Kokhba coinage, cataloguing 6,393 coins with 602 die couples and establishing the standard framework for attribution, die study, and further research into this major Jewish series. A fundamental scholarly reference, long valued for the precision of its corpus structure...

Ancient Bronze Coins of Asia Minor and the Levant from the Lindgren Collection, Volume I. Henry Clay Lindgren and Frank L. Kovacs (San Mateo, Chrysopylon Publications, 1985). A highly useful specialist reference devoted to the bronze coinages of Asia Minor and the Levant, forming the opening volume of the well known Ancient Coins from the Lindgren Collection series and valued for its practical catalogue format, broad regional coverage, and...

Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian Coins in the Smithsonian Institution. Osmund Bopearachchi (Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1993). Hardcover with dust jacket, 143 pages with map and 41 fine plates, printed in India for the Smithsonian. A compact and very useful institutional catalogue of the Smithsonian holdings of Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian, and Indo-Parthian coinage, especially valuable for attribution and close comparison...

Indo-Scythian Coins and History, Volume I: An Analysis of the Coinage. R.C. Senior. Lancaster, PA and London, Classical Numismatic Group, 2001. Paperback. The opening volume of Senior?s three-volume study, setting out the historical background and a full chronological and typological analysis of Indo-Scythian and related coinages, with many attributions re-examined through hoard evidence, monograms, control letters, and changing weight...

Indo-Scythian Coins and History, Volume IV Supplement: Additional Coins and Hoards; The Sequences of Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian Kings. R.C. Senior. Lancaster, PA and London, Classical Numismatic Group, 2006, first edition. Paperback. ISBN 0-9709268-6-3. The long-awaited companion to Senior?s three-volume set (2001), extending and correcting the series with newly recorded varieties, additional rulers and types, and a major hoard dossier that...

Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum (Paris, Berlin, Wien), Band I: Ardashir I to Shapur I. Michael Alram and Rika Gyselen, with contributions by P.O. Skj?rv?, R. Linke, M. Schreiner, and J.-N. Barrandon. Vienna, Verlag der ?sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2003, produced with the Biblioth?que nationale de France, the Berlin M?nzkabinett, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Silver-blue pictorial hardback, approx. 393 pages, packed with...

Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum (Paris, Berlin, Wien), Band III/1: Shapur II, Kawad I, Second Reign. Nikolaus Schindel, with contributions by S. Stanek, R. Linke and M. Schreiner. Vienna: Verlag der ?sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004. ISBN 3-7001-3314-6. Pictorial hardback, c. 510 pp., extensively illustrated with plates, charts and analytical tables. An important volume in the SNS corpus, treating the coinage from Shapur II (AD...