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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.

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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

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Ce livre donne un état des récentes découvertes de monnaies de fouille en Méditerranée orientale dont celles faites en Égypte lors des fouilles sous-marines dans le delta du Nil en Égypte ou en Grèce sur les sites royaux de Macédoine. Une grande partie de ce matériel est inédite. L’ambition des auteurs est d’abord méthodologique : les monnaies de fouille sont des monnaies principalement perdues, souvent de faible valeur ou hors d’usage (décri, monnaies modifiées, fausses monnaies). L’objectif classique de leur étude est de fournir des marqueurs chronologiques aux archéologues, d’enrichir les corpus monétaires ou d’étudier la circulation. En réalité, elles offrent bien d’autres possibilités à la recherche (étude des phases de circulation et de décri, des pratiques monétaires, histoire économique, histoire des pratiques sociales, etc.), qu’elles soient trouvées en groupe ou isolées, dès lors qu’elles sont remises en contexte archéologique, de concert avec les autres artefacts, notamment céramiques. This book gives an overview of recent discoveries of excavation coins in the Eastern Mediterranean, including those made in Egypt during underwater excavations in the Nile delta in Egypt or in Greece on the royal sites of Macedonia.

Monnaies antiques --- Circulation monétaire --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Monnaies grecques --- Monnaies lagides --- Monnaies islamiques --- Monnaies byzantines --- Numismatique grecque --- Actes de congrès. --- Coins, Greek --- Archaeology --- Archéologie --- Congresses --- Methodology --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Méthodologie --- Coins, Greek. --- Methodology. --- Mediterranean Region. --- Archéologie --- Congrès --- Méthodologie --- Mediterranean Region --- Numismatique --- Numismatique. --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Actes de congrès --- Ancient history --- Humanities --- Social Sciences --- Egypt --- Greece --- Israel --- Middle East --- Syria --- Turkey --- numismatique --- archéologie --- archéométrie --- histoire ancienne grecque --- monnaies de fouille --- économie; trésors; cartographie; SIG; fouilles sous-marines; épaves