foreign publications
Anthony John - Collecting Greek Coins, New York 1983, ISBN 0582503108
301 pages, format approx. 14 x 21.5 cm, softcover. A guide to facilitating the collection of Greek coins (and more) using chapters as examples: Coins of the city-states (Archaic period, Magna Graecia, Sybaris, Tarentum, Naples, Sicily, Athens, Aegina, Corinth, Rhodes), Coins of Alexander the Great and his successors (Alexander the Great, Macedonia, Seleucid Empire, Egypt under the Ptolemies), Small Greek Kingdoms (Epirus under Pyrrhus, Pergamon, Bithynia, Pont, Cappadocia, Armenia), Coins of non-Greek territories (Phoenicia, Carthage, Jewish coins, Etruscans and Bruttis, Thrace, Celts), East under Hellenistic influence (Parthia, Sassanid Empire, Bactria and India), Thematic collections (religion, Athena, Dionysus, Hercules, monsters - Medusa, Pegasus, Chimera, non-Greek gods, Greece and the sea, Argonauts expedition, Odyssey). The book includes numerous maps and more than 530 photographs of coins (obverse and reverse) with a description of the legend.
