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Grierson: Byzantine Coins

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Grierson: Byzantine Coins
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Grierson, Philip (Ed.). BYZANTINE COINS. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London. 1982. 4to. 411 pages. Original green cloth, black title plate, gilt, jacket. Map endpages. Tables. Charts. Concordance. 95 b&w coin plates. English text. Jacket/Book Fine. This is the first comprehensive survey of Byzantine coinage to have been published for many years. Professor Grierson has written a general history of the coinage and a descriptive guide to the coins which will serve the general reader and the historian on the one hand and the numismatist and collector on the other. The standard authority on the subject for the first half of the century was Warwick Wrath's catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the British Museum, published in 1908. It was not until the late 1960s that this began to be superseded by the introductions to the catalogues of the collections of the Dumbarton Oaks Center of Byzantine Studies at Washington and of the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. The first of these, however, of which Professor Grierson is joint editor, and author of two volumes, does not at present go beyond 1081, while the second ends in 1204. The present work carries on to the end of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantine coinage is generally taken to begin with the monetary reforms of the emperor Anastasius I in 498, and Professor Grierson's book contains a full account of the ways in which it developed over the nine and a half centuries between that date and the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. Partly as a result of the preliminary research involved in the preparation of the two catalogues referred to, and partly through the stimulus of the often novel arrangements of material which these embodied, the subject is one on which great progress has been made in our knowledge in recent years. For the period after 1081 Professor Grierson has been able to take account of our new understanding of twelfth and thirteenth-century coinage and of his own research on the coinage of the Palaeologid period. The text is fully annotated throughout, so that the reader can follow the most recent discussion of each theme, and there is a select bibliography. The ninety-five pages of plates illustrate over 1500 coins, mainly chosen from the Dumbarton Oaks collection with whose growth and study much of the author's scholarly life has been associated. Lot weight: 3 lbs 7oz. Subject(s): Ancient Coinage.