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Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxii, 273 pages, 45 photographic plates, end paper maps.
Important for the historical background to the coins. Blue cloth with dust jacket. Very
Fine - near new condition. Current publisher's price is US $210.00!
This is the first
full study of early Hellenistic coinage to be published. It provides a general history of
the coinage of Alexander the Great and his successors, and of the cities of Greece and
Asia Minor, over the century and a half 336-188 BC. Dr Mørkholm's detailed descriptions
of the coins, and the 40 pages of plates illustrating over 600 items, will provide a
standard work of reference for ancient historians, numismatists and collectors. His
original intention was to write a survey of Hellenistic coinage down to the Roman
acquisition of Egypt in 30 BC, but he died with his project only half finished. The survey
of early Hellenistic coinage, however, is complete in itself. A short epilogue has been
added by Professor Grierson describing the main features of the coinage after 188 BC.
Contents:
Foreword Philip Grierson; Summary of the plates; Maps, figures and tables;
Abbreviations; Part I. General Features of the Coinage: 1. Metals and weight standards; 2.
Coin production and use; 3. Types and inscriptions;
Part II. Alexander and the Diadochi
336 -c. 280: 4. Coins of Alexander's lifetime; 5. Philip III and the early posthumous
coinage; 6. Egypt and its neighbours; 7. Syria and the East: Seleucus; 8. Macedonia, Asia
Minor and Greece; Part III. The Balance of Power: Eastern Hellenism; c. 280-188
Introduction; 9. The Ptolemies c. 283-200; 10. The Seleucids; 11. Asia Minor, Macedonia
and Greece; Epilogue; A. The end of Macedonian coinage Otto Mørkholm; B. Later
Hellenistic coinage Philip Grierson; Appendices: Lists of rulers; Chronological tables
336-187; Glossary; Select bibliography; Plate captions; Plates.
Review "...the
editors have done a splendid job....a brilliant, thorough handbook of Hellenistic coinage
for the first half of the Hellenistic Age. It will be indispensable for anyone,
numismatist or not, who works in this period, and will stand as a great monument to its
author." American Journal of Archaeology |
