This book attempts to make accessible to students, scholars, and the lay public annotated, up-to-date information regarding the major coinages of the Greco-Roman world. An international group of experts has been asked to treat their areas of expertise, and the result is a broadly illustrated introduction to the subject.

Table of Contents

PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION, WILLIAM E. METCALF; 1. THE SUBSTANCE OF COINAGE: THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS IN ANCIENT NUMISMATICS, MATTHEW PONTING; ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK COINAGE; 2. THE MONETARY BACKGROUND OF EARLY COINAGE, JOHN H. KROLL ; 3. ASIA MINOR TO THE IONIAN REVOLT, KORAY KONUK ; 4. THE COINAGE OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE, MICHAEL ALRAM ; 5. THE COINAGE OF ATHENS, 6TH - 1ST CENTURY B.C., PETER VAN ALFEN ; 6. AEGINA, THE CYCLADES AND CRETE, KENNETH SHEEDY ; 7. THE COINAGE OF ITALY, N. K. RUTTER ; 8. THE COINAGE OF SICILY, WOLFGANG FISCHER-BOSSERT ; 9. GREECE AND THE BALKANS TO 360 B.C., SELENE PSOMA; THE HELLENISTIC WORLD; 10. ROYAL HELLENISTIC COINAGES FROM ALEXANDER TO MITHRIDATES, FRANCOIS DE CALLATAY ; 11. THE HELLENISTIC WORLD: THE CITIES OF MAINLAND GREECE AND ASIA MINOR, RICHARD ASHTON ; 12. THE COINAGE OF THE PTOLEMIES, CATHARINE C. LORBER ; 13. THE SELEUCIDS, ARTHUR HOUGHTON ; 14. GREEK COINAGES OF PALESTINE, OREN TAL ; 15. THE COINAGE OF THE PARTHIANS, FABRIZIO SINISI ; THE ROMAN WORLD; 16. EARLY ROMAN COINAGE AND ITS ITALIAN CONTEXT, ANDREW BURNETT ; 17. THE DENARIUS COINAGE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC, BERNHARD E. WOYTEK; 18. THE JULIO-CLAUDIANS, RIENHOLD WOLTERS ; 19. ANCIENT SPAIN, PERE P. RIPOLLES ; 20. FLAVIAN COINAGE, IAN CARRADICE ; 21. THE COINAGE OF THE PROVINCES THROUGH HADRIAN, MICHEL AMANDRY ; 22. TRAJAN AND HADRIAN, MARTIN BECKMANN ; 23. ANTONINE COINAGE, LIV MARIAH YARROW ; 24. THE PROVINCES AFTER COMMODUS, RANN JOHNSTON ; 25. SYRIA IN THE ROMAN PERIOD, 64 B.C. - A.D. 260, KEVIN BUTCHER ; 26. ROMAN COINAGES OF PALESTINE, HAIM GITLER ; 27. THE SEVERANS, RICHARD ABDY; 28. FROM GORDIAN III TO THE GALLIC EMPIRE (A.D. 238-74), ROGER BLAND ; 29. THE LATER THIRD CENTURY, SYLVIANE ESTIOT ; 30. THE COINAGE OF ROMAN EGYPT, ANGELO GEISSEN ; 31. TETRARCHY AND THE HOUSE OF CONSTANTINE, RICHARD ABDY; 32. THE COINAGE OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE, A.D. 364-498, SAM MOORHEAD ; 33. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WEST, ALAN M. STAHL ; APPENDIX 1: MARKS OF VALUE ON LATER ROMAN COINS, ROGER BLAND ; APPENDIX 2: THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS ON ROMAN COINS, RICHARD ABDY ; INDICES; A. MINTS; B. PERSONS; C. GENERAL