Table of Contents

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.

Promotional Information

This book, first published in 1991, is a full study of early Hellenistic coinage.

Reviews

"...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