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Levy: Roman Coins in the Princeton University Library. Vol I - Republic to Commodus

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Levy: Roman Coins in the Princeton University Library. Vol I - Republic to Commodus
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Levy, Brooks Emmons & Pierre C.V. Bastien. ROMAN COINS IN THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. VOL I - REPUBLIC TO COMMODUS. Cultura Press, Wetteren. 1985. 4to. xiv, 191, (5) pages. Original brown cloth, gilt. 28 b&w plates. Fine. This book is a catalog of the Roman coins in the collection of the Princeton Library. The catalog is setup as follows: for the coinage of the Republican period, references are given to Crawford (C) and to Sydenham (S). The order and dating of Crawford are followed but should be regarded as approximate: a few suggested revisions of Crawford's dates have already appeared in print, and more are surely to come. For the imperial period (and the end of the Republic), the catalogue employs a division similar to that of the Ashmolean sylloge (AMCRE), which is almost the only modern catalogue to include Greek Imperials with Roman coinage. Where AMC RE uses a fourfold division into state, dynastic, regional, and civic issues, Princeton's arrangement is bipartite, its second division encompassing the material of AMCRE's second, third, and fourth. References for the coinages of state (chiefly, that is, the issues of Rome and Lugdunum, and of branch mints whose products currently seem indistinguishable from Rome's) are regularly to BMC and RIC; the references to RIC2 are given in brackets after those to the first edition, since it is assumed that RIC2 has not yet superseded RIC1 in all libraries and may never do so entirely. For regional and civic issues, the first reference is, where possible, to the British Museum catalogues of Greek coinage (BMC), with at least one additional reference to a more recent, better illustrated, or specialized work. Descriptions are meant to be succinct, though fuller than RI C's: in particular it has seemed advisable, at the cost of some repetition, to describe rather than to label personifications. Of the 1873 pieces in the catalogue's main section 598 appear in the plates. For the Republican period, emphasis is laid on the issues which Crawford's die-estimates suggest were the smaller ones. For the Empire too it has seemed desirable to illustrate, rather than well-preserved common specimens, rarer issues and issues scantily illustrated elsewhere even when the Princeton example is a poorly preserved one.11 Publication of a collection of Roman coins must nowadays be justified by the attention it draws to unknown or inadequately known pieces. The library's holdings in Roman coinages of state include some forty variants on types published in BMC, RIC, and HCC, and there are many more rare pieces in its Greek Imperial series. These are the coins emphasized in the plates. That there should be this much unusual material in a collection somewhat randomly formed, as Princeton's has been, bears out Anne Robertson's observation: what we know today is only a tiny fraction of the coinage issued within the Roman Empire. Lot weight: 2 lbs 7oz. Subject(s): Ancient Coinage.