This large volume comprises forty-two essays given in honour of
the late Martin Jessop Price, a leading authority on Greek coinage, and an
active member of the Royal Numismatics Society and the British Academy's
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum project. The essays cover a broad range of subjects
and issues including coins from Phyrgia, Pergamon, Samos, Athens, Syracuse,
Lydia, Cyprus, the Black Sea and Poseidonia-Paestum, addressing questions of
history, iconography, subject matter, links to political and social change and
economic values. Contributors include: John Barron, Andrew Burnett, Nicholas
Hardwick, Ann Johnston, Georges Le Rider, John Morcom, N K Rutter, Jeffrey
Spier and Ute Wartenberg . Includes a bibliography of Martin Jessop Price.
Essays in English and French.
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