Sapio Vitrano, Miscellaneous of ancient coins

Francesco Sapio Vitrano, Miscellany of Ancient Coins, Società generale pubblicità, Palermo 1966, pp. 157, 37 plates reproducing coins, 1 folded geographical plate, 28 cm, solid full cloth binding with dust jacket.

Limited edition work. Numbered and signed by the author.

Contents: Introduction; Consulted texts; Metals; Counterfeits; Greek monetary system; Some abbreviations; Minting cities; Roman monetary system; Minted magistrates of the Republic; Abbreviations on republican coins; The various monetary reforms of the imperial period; Imperial mints and their abbreviations; Coiners during the civil wars; Empire: Emperors and their depicted relatives; Abbreviations on imperial coins; Legends common to different Emperors; Legends on Alexandrian coins; Byzantine monetary system; Coiners of the Byzantine period; Main mints for the Eastern Empires; Technological nomenclature; Historical-numismatic summary of Sicily; Greek coins - descriptions of the tables; Main texts and periodicals cited; Gaul; Italy; Bruttium; Campania; Lucania; Sicily; Africa; Zeugitania; Ptolemaic dynasty; Cyrenaica; Libya; Mauretania; Mainland Greece and Islands; Thrace; Kingdom of Thrace; Macedonia; Kingdom of Macedonia; Thessaly; Aetolia; Phocidia; Boeotia; Attica; Islands of Aegina and Corinth; Peloponnese; Crete; Asia; Kings of Pontus; Paphlagonia; Mysia; Island of Lesbos; Ionia; Caria; Carian dynasties; Island of Rhodes; Kings of Lydia; Lycian dynasties; Pamphylia; Island of Cyprus; Kingdom of Syria; Phoenicia; Achaemenid kings; Roman coins - description of the tables; Main texts and periodicals cited; Republic; Civil wars (48-30 BC); Empire; Contorniati; Byzantine coins - description of the tables; Main texts and periodicals cited; Weights; Numismatic tables; Greek coins; Roman coins; Byzantine coins.

Dust jacket with traces of use, some tears and minor losses, slight foxing in the text, otherwise in good condition.

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