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Greek Coins and Their Values Volume 2 - Asia and Africa
Greek Coins and Their Values Volume 2 Asia and Africa Author:David R. Sear This volume completes what must surely be the most complete and comprehensively illustrated collectors' guide to the coins of the Greek world ever undertaken. — Part one commences with the earliest electrum coins of Ionia and Lydia and the subsequent autonomous coinages of the city states to Asia Minor, together with those coins stuck under the ... more »Persian rule in the pre-Alexander age.
The second volume 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 secgtion is devoted to the regal issues of the principal kingdoms of the Hellenistic Age ending with Cleopatra VII of Egypt whose death brought to an end the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.
The illustrated preface contained in volume one is here repeated with relevant bibliography.
Over 4500 coins listed with nearly 200 pjotographs, 4 tables of ancient alphabets, 11 maps and an index.
The first volume covers the early Celtic and Greek coins of Europe arranged geographically from Spain in the west to the Peloponnese and Crete, listing some 3395 coins with 1500 illustrations.« less