In this volume, Erik Christiansen uses Alexandrian coin hoards to explore the use of money in Egypt from its conquest by Augustus in 30 BC to Diocletian's curre

A broadly-illustrated overview of the contemporary state of Greco-Roman numismatic scholarship.

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systemat

There are many books that discuss the coins from specific periods of Egyptian history, but there are none that consider the coins from the whole of that history

Information on the rarity of each type, including estimates of their value when first published in 2000, are presented in a separate table. The numerous, though