Early Hellenistic coinage : from the accession of Alexander to the Peace of Apamea (336-188 B.C.) /
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Cambridge ; New York :
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1991.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. General features of the coinage. Metals and weight standards. (a) Metals ; (b) Weight standards
- Coin production and use. (a) Minting technique ; (b) Coin production ; (c) Coin circulation ; (d) The functions of coinage
- Types and inscription. (a) Types ; (b) Inscriptions ; (c) Imitations and style
- Pt. II. Alexander and the Diadochi, 336-c. 280. Coins of Alexander's lifetime
- Philip III and the early posthumous coinage
- Egypt and its neighbours. (a) Ptolemy I ; (b) Cyrenaica and Judaea
- Syria and the East: Seleucus I
- Macedonia, Asia Minor and Greece. (a) Demetrius Poliorcetes ; (b) Lysimachus ; (c) Lesser dynasts and cities of Greece and Asia Minor
- Pt. III. The balance of power: Eastern Hellenism, c. 280-188
- The Ptolemies, c. 283-200
- The Seleucids. (a) The central region, 281-187 ; (b) The eastern satrapies and the Successor States in the East, 281-c. 187 ; (c) Western Seleucid mints
- Asia Minor, Macedonia and Greece. (a) The lesser kingdoms of Asia Minor, c. 281-188 ; (b) The kingdom of Macedon, c. 281-196 ; (c) Posthumous Alexanders and Lysimachi and related coinages ; (d) Leagues and cities in Greece and Asia Minor, c 280-190
- Epilogue. A. The end of Macedonian coinage
- B. Later Hellenistic coinage, by Philip Grierson
- Appendices. List of Rulers. Kings of Macedon ; The Seleucids (Syria and the East) ; The Lagids (Ptolemies) of Egypt ; The Attalids of Pergamum ; Kings of Bithynia ; Kings of Pontus ; Kings of Cappadocia ; the Arsacids of Parthia ; Bactrian and Indo-Greek kings.