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Kraay: Archaic and Classical Greek Coins

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Kraay: Archaic and Classical Greek Coins
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Kraay, Colinn M. ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK COINS. University of California Press. 1976. 8vo. 390 pages. Berkeley. original green cloth, black title plate, gilt, dust jacket. maps. 64 fine plates. Fine. Colin Kraay, Keeper of the Herberden Coin Room at Oxford, has provided a much needed, up-to-date handbook of Greek Coinage. In this descriptive, critical and historical catalogue, Kraay acknowledges a debt to his major predecessors, Babelon. Head, Gardner and Seltman. His taxonomy is practical and sensible. Following the modern trend of mint and die studies, he divides his material geographically according to the emergence of the earliest mints in Asia Minor, then proceeding to subsequent developments on the Mainland and the Aegean Islands, Magna Graecia, and finally the peripheral areas of the Greek East. This arrangement succeeds in organizing his material geographically as well as chronologically while retaining the essential integrity of separate mints. For, as Kraay proposes in his preface, the history of Greek Coinage cannot be dealt with sufficiently by a simply chronological approach, as is the case with Roman and Byzantine coinage, since the Hellenic material. This is the definitive 'textbook' for the student and collector of Greek coins. Lot weight: 2 lbs 14oz. Subject(s): Ancient Coinage.