Listing 1 - 10 of 17 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Choose an application
"The history of Hellenistic Bactria (northern Afghanistan, and areas of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) is particularly obscure and its reconstruction contentious. Unlike other Hellenistic kingdoms very little evidence survives from literary sources and inscriptions; the best primary source is the large quantity of coinage issued under the Graeco-Bactrian kings who ruled the area from the third century to the mid-second century BC. With limited details of the find spots of the coins and only a few published hoards, their use has often been limited to a superficial analysis of their iconography. Royal Coinage in Hellenistic Bactria will present the results of a die study, an approach to studying the coins that can give many insights into the way they were produced. The coins of six kings (Euthydemus I, Demetrius I, Euthydemus II, Pantaleon, Agathocles, and Antimachus I) are included. Different mints and rhythms of production can be identified, and the overall size of the coinages estimated. Using a thorough understanding and suggested reconstruction of the production of these coins, this book will propose a new, soundly-based history of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom under these kings"--
Coins, Greek --- Coinage --- History. --- Bactria --- History --- Antiquities.
Choose an application
This book collects the most complete, current scholarship on the history of known examples of ancient electrum coinage of the Greek world, with text, catalogue, and images.
Coins, Greek --- Coins, Ancient --- Electrum --- Altertum. --- Coins, Ancient. --- Coins, Greek. --- Electrum. --- Elektron --- Münze. --- Eretz Israel --- Greece. --- Antiquities. --- Coins, Ancient - Greece --- Antiques & Collectibles --- Coins, greek --- Coins, ancient --- Antiques & collectibles
Choose an application
The invention of coinage was a conceptual revolution, not a technological one. Only with the invention of Greek coinage does the concept "money" clearly materialize in history. Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society, bringing with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and elites. In an argument of interest to scholars of ancient history and archaeology as well as to modern economists, David M. Schaps addresses a range of issues pertaining to major shifts in ancient economies, including money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and Greece before the introduction of coinage; the invention of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; and the development of using money to generate greater wealth.
Coins, Greek. --- Coinage --- Legal tender --- Mints --- Money --- Silver question --- Greek coins --- History --- Coins, Greek --- Coinage - Greece - History - To 1500
Choose an application
This book is not a standard coin catalogue, but it focuses on quantities and percentages of the mysterious 5950 sphere images on Roman (76BC-AD 476) coin reverses, and a few Greek coins. This research identifies which Emperors, Deities and Personifications are most frequently shown with a sphere, during reigns and eras, and determines the political, cultural, religious and propaganda trends associated with the coin sphere images, and provides a variety of new findings. The book has 257 illustrations of spheres shown on Roman and a few Greek coins, as well as 109 images of statues, reliefs, mosaics, and other ancient art. Consider that the ancient Greeks (620 BC-30 BC) had the first astronomers in Europe (influenced by Egyptian and Babylonian astronomy) who created the celestial and terrestrial sphere theories, including the popular geocentric theory (Earth is the centre of the Universe). But at that time the Greeks very rarely showed sphere images on their coins – far less than 1%! In comparison, the later Romans during 76 BCAD 476 issued coin reverse sphere types as 15% of their total coin types, and therefore millions of these important coin sphere types were minted. The author explores Constantine’s BEATA TRANQVILLITAS Sphere Reverses (AD 321 – 324) and offers a new interpretation of Christian Trinity symbolism that opposes Arianism. Starting in the late 4th century, the Roman religion began to transfer to Christianity, and coins promoted Emperors holding a Christian cross on a globe or a winged Victory/Angel also holding a globus cruciger. At the end of the book, the Epilogue shows the continuous worldwide use (from 5th to 21st century) of sphere images on coins, reliefs, sculptures, astronomical models, drawings, paintings and large monuments, and some of them suggest that Imperial Roman sphere coins created a long legacy.
E-books --- Coins, Roman. --- Coins, Greek. --- Sphere in art. --- Coins, Roman
Choose an application
Coins, Greek. --- Coins, Roman. --- Numismatics, Ancient. --- Coins, Ancient. --- Greece --- Rome --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities.
Choose an application
Tome 1 Ce colloque consacré au Péloponnèse était le sixième d’une série de rencontres organisées par les Amis du Musée numismatique, autour d’une province particulière de l’espace grec, en collaboration avec les Éphories locales et les Centres de recherche qui y sont actifs. Puisque le colloque s’est tenu à Argos, l’École française d’Athènes s’y est tout naturellement investie et assume aujourd’hui la coédition des Actes. Le nombre des ateliers péloponnésiens autant que l’importance historique de la péninsule, à toutes époques, font de cet Obolos 10 l’un des projets les plus ambitieux de la collection. Par commodité, l’ample matière a été répartie en deux volumes, consacrés le premier à la période antique, le second aux époques postérieures, de Byzance jusqu’à la fondation de l’État grec moderne. L’abondance des fouilles menées chaque année dans le Péloponnèse, le dynamisme des chercheurs qui en exploitent les résultats, mais aussi l’abondance relative des productions monétaires locales expliquent la très riche moisson d’études relatives à l’Antiquité, qu’il s’agisse d’analyses de fond ou de publication de matériel inédit. Leur nombre même a amené les éditeurs à en extraire une dizaine de contributions consacrées à des trouvailles monétaires locales ou au signalement de monnaies de collection, à les traduire en langue française et à les regrouper en un dossier à part publié dans une livraison du BCH 139-140.2 (2015-2016), sous le titre « Monnaies et trouvailles péloponnésiennes. Compléments au Colloque d’Argos 2011 ». Inséparables des contributions publiées dans ce Supplément au BCH, elles attirent notamment l’attention sur quelques travaux plus spécifiques de circulation monétaire antique. Tome 2 Ce colloque consacré au Péloponnèse était le sixième d’une série de rencontres organisées par les Amis du Musée numismatique, autour d’une province particulière de l’espace grec, en collaboration avec les Éphories locales et les Centres de recherche qui y sont actifs. Puisque le colloque s’est tenu à Argos, l’École française d’Athènes s’y est tout naturellement investie et assume aujourd’hui la coédition des Actes. Le nombre des ateliers péloponnésiens autant que l’importance historique de la péninsule, à toutes époques, font de cet Obolos10 l’un des projets les plus ambitieux de la collection. Par commodité, l’ample matière a été répartie en deux volumes, consacrés le premier à la période antique, le second aux époques postérieures, de Byzance jusqu’à la fondation de l’État grec moderne. La production locale ou l’approvisionnement de la Péninsule en espèces monétaires à l’époque byzantine paraissent pauvres, si on les compare aux très abondantes émissions antiques, locales ou importées. Cette relative pénurie documentaire n’en rend que plus insignes tous les témoins retrouvés et patiemment enregistrés, qu’il s’agisse d’émissions impériales, de sceaux, de productions monétaires des Latins ou des Vénitiens, jusques et y compris la médaille du premier gouverneur de l’État grec moderne, Ioannis Kapodistrias. Par l’ampleur de la moisson ici engrangée et la qualité des contributions, ce volume constitue un apport décisif pour l’histoire des périodes médiévales et modernes dans le Péloponnèse, de nature à stimuler durablement la recherche dans les domaines concernés.
Coins, Greek --- Coins --- Money --- Numismatics --- Greek coins --- E-books --- Conferences - Meetings --- Coins. --- Peloponnèse --- monnaie --- monnayage --- circulation monétaire
Choose an application
Coin hoards --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Coins, Ancient --- Coins, Greek --- Coins, Roman --- Money --- Wealth --- Military history, Ancient. --- History --- Syria --- Antiquities.
Choose an application
Since 1974 the University of California at Berkeley has been sponsoring extensive excavations at the Panhellenic athletic festival center of ancient Nemea in the modern Greek province of Korinthia. With its well-documented excavation and clear historical context, the site offers an excellent opportunity for investigation and analysis. This volume, the third in a series of publications on Nemea, is a detailed presentation of the more than three thousand legible coins from all over the ancient world that have been unearthed there. The coins, which are mostly bronze but show an unusually high proportion of silver, reflect the periods of greatest activity at the site-the late Archaic and Early Classical, the Early Hellenistic, the Early Christian, and the Byzantine. More than a compendium of data, the study breaks new ground with its analysis and contextualization of numismatic evidence in an archaeological setting.
Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Nemea Site (Greece) --- Greece --- Neméa (Grèce : Site archéologique) --- Grèce --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Antiquities --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Neméa (Grèce : Site archéologique) --- Grèce --- Antiquités --- Coins, Greek - Greece - Nemea Site. --- Nemea Site (Greece). --- Greek coins --- Coins, Greek. --- Stadiums --- Architecture, Hellenistic --- Coins, Ancient --- Shrines --- Temple of Zeus (Nemea, Greece) --- Stadiums - Greece. --- Coins, Greek.. --- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece.. --- Greece -- Antiquities. --- Greece - Antiquities
Choose an application
Like other volumes in this series, Ancient History from Coins demystifies a specialism, introducing students (from first year upwards) to the techniques, methods, problems and advantages of using coins to do ancient history.Coins are a fertile source of information for the ancient historian; yet too often historians are uneasy about using them as evidence because of the special problems attaching to their interpretation. The world of numismatics is not always easy for the non-specialist to penetrate or understand with confidence. Dr Howgego describes and analyses the main contribution.
Coins, Ancient --- Coins, Greek --- Coins, Roman --- History, Ancient --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- Roman coins --- Greek coins --- Ancient coins --- Numismatique ancienne --- --Coins, Greek --- Coins, Ancient. --- Coins, Greek. --- Coins, Roman. --- History, Ancient. --- Antieke munten --- Coins [Ancient ] --- Coins [Greek ] --- Coins [Roman ] --- Geschiedenis [Oude ] --- Geschiedenis van de oudheid --- Histoire ancienne --- Histoire de l'antiquité --- History [Ancient ] --- Monnaies -- Antiquité --- Monnaies antiques --- Monnaies de l'Antiquité --- Monnaies grecques --- Monnaies romaines --- Munten [Antieke ] --- Munten [Griekse ] --- Munten [Romeinse ] --- Munten van de oudheid --- Oude geschiedenis --- Romeinse munten --- History. --- Research. --- Related Historical Sciences --- History & Archaeology --- Numismatics --- World history
Listing 1 - 10 of 17 | << page >> |
Sort by
|