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.