Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentatio…
This book, "Handbook of English Coins Giving a Concise Description of the Various Denominations of Coin. from the Norman Conquest to the Present Reign", by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, is a replication of a book originally published before 1…
Some of the most famous stories in the Bible revolve around coins. From the widow's mite to Judas's thirty pieces of silver, the original narratives and their later translations have used local coins to make the Gospels relate to audiences over the…
Potamikon attempts to solve a question that has perplexed scholars for hundreds of years: Who exactly is the man-faced bull featured so often on Greek coinage? It approaches this question by examining the origin of the iconography and traces its dev…
This book, Potamikon, presents an investigation into the origin and identity of the man-faced bull, as well as a catalogue of coins.
Imperial Designs is the first entirely new study of the Ships, Colonies and Commerce tokens of Canada in 100 years. Its aim is to deepen appreciation of a common nineteenth century token which circulated widely in the Canadas, the Maritimes and Newf…
This lavishly illustrated book presents a selection of coins from Asia Minor and the East from the Colin Pitchfork Collection. The enlarged pictures are designed to allow close inspection of detail for the serious collector but it is also suitable f…
English summary: The contributions in this volume are related to the role that coins could play in ancient societies, especially Greek societies. Although the articles in this volume approach the subject of coins from different perspective, they are…
Get to know the Presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Barack Obama. Visit the only surviving residence of James Polk in Columbia, Tennessee, or the Lyndon Baines Johnson ranch near Johnson City, Texas. Divided into three regions…
Spanning the globe! Massive in scope and encyclopedic in detail, The Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, provides the most comprehensive reference to 20th century coins on the market. The 45th edition of this tradition-rich catalog is vetted…
Histoire numismatique de Henri V et Henri VI, rois d'Angleterre pendant qu'ils ont regne en France / par F. de Saulcy, ...Date de l'edition originale: 1878Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d une uvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d une collect…
This book attempts to catalogue all known pattern and proof coins struck in gold, together with off-metal strikes and unofficial fantasies, also in gold. Included are the English series from Edward VI to Elizabeth I (1547-1603) and the coinage of Gr…
This book outlines the medals issued to British soldiers and sailors for military service across the globe. At a time of imperial expansion, British forces were almost constantly in action - against major powers (like Russia in 1854), in wars of con…
This book reviews Samian ware chronology, c. AD 150-275. A dating scheme is proposed, based upon the stratigraphic association of Samian ware with coins, and using the statistical strength of association between potters or styles with each other and…
First published in 2005, this catalogue has become the standard reference work for cast Chinese coins. It covers both the early spade and knife coins that were used from around 600 BC and the square holed "cash" coins that were the coinage of China…
By the IAPN Prize-winning author of The Coins of the English East India Company.The Coinage of the Bombay Presidency: A study of the Records of the EIC is a companion volume to Dr Stevens' widely acclaimed catalogue of the Presidency Series of Coins…
English summary: The extensive Corpus of all available legends of Byzantine metrical seals (ca. 4,500) is to be published in three volumes; the first one appeared in 2011, the second is presented here. These miniature epigrams are sometimes aestheti…
Cities have tended throughout history to be the preferred location for the minting and circulation of coins and coinage has in turn generally reflected the importance of many of these cities. This work, a collection of eleven contributions, explores…
Thanks to the invaluable insight and expertise of 100 coins experts worldwide, the new edition of the Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, is brimming with new issue coinage and value revisions reflecting the growing market for modern commemo…
Learn how to identify inscriptions and determine dates on eastern coins. With many images, charts and conversion tables, this book provides the collector with all of the resources needed to identify eastern coins. It includes 250 images of coins and…
The book begins by tracing the growth and development of monetary systems, from the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia and Egypt to the establishment of coinage in the Greek and Roman world. The following chapters develop a broader world view, exp…
This book is dedicated to, and specifically designed for, the beginning collector of Byzantine coins. Identification can be a challenge particularly with those coins which are the most affordable. You may have to begin with coins which have only par…
This catalogue provides an authoritative guide to the different major coinages of William IV, Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI, with detailed colour illustrations of each coin. This work is based upon that of Major Pridmore (The Coins of…
Some three and a half centuries ago, Britain was convulsed by a series of civil wars. The names of its participants and major battles Oliver Cromwell and Charles I, Cavaliers and Roundheads, Edgehill and Dunbar are still well known today. These wars…
Early numismatic publications contain invaluable evidence which can throw new light upon unsolved numismatic questions. This work contains over 6000 numismatic works published between 1700 and 1800; the authors have studied each publication page by…
A large gap exists in the literature of ancient numismatics between general works intended for collectors and highly specialized studies addressed to numismatists. Indeed, there is hardly anything produced by knowledgeable numismatists that is easil…
When Hesiod, the Greek poet of the eighth century B.C., recounted the history of the world as he understood it, he described the legendary first generation of mortal men, who lived in peace and ease, as the "people of gold." Nearly three millennia l…
This catalogue presents part of the Ozkan Arikanturk Collection 827 coins from the cities of Troas. All coins were bought between the years 1990-2013 by himself in Burhaniye where ancient Adramyteum lies. Alexandria Troas is the city with highest re…
