Early Hellenistic Coinage from the Accession of Alexander to the Peace of Apamaea (336-188 Bc)

ISBN-13: 9780521395045 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 348 str.

Otto Morkholm

Opis

This is the first full study of early Hellenistic coinage to be published. It provides a history of the coinage of Alexander the Great and his successors in the Near and Middle East, and of the cities of Greece and Asia Minor, down to the establishment of Rome as a major power in the East as a result of her defeat of Antiochus III of Syria at the battle of Magnesia in 189 BC. It is fully illustrated and will provide historians and collectors with a detailed and authoritative guide to the coinage of the period.

Recenzje

"...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

Spis treści

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.