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This lavishly-produced catalogue presents one of the finest colelctions of Hellenistic coins in Australia. The enlarged pictures are designed to allow close inspection of detail, for the serious collector, but it is also suitable for those who have a more general interest in all things 'Alexander'.

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Author:   Kenneth A. Sheedy
Publisher:   Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies
Imprint:   Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies
Dimensions:   Width: 21.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 30.00cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780646481500

ISBN 10:   0646481509
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   12 December 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

Magically back to life: Some thoughts on ancient coins and the study of Hellenistic royal portraits (K A Sheedy); Rider in the chariot: Ptolemy, Alexander and the elephants (A B Bosworth); Continuity and ambition: The posthumous Philip II gold staters from Colophon/Magnesia (E J Baynham); The coinage of Alexander and his successors: A ‘Common Hellenic Coinage?’ (J Melville Jones); The Westmoreland Collection Catalogue; Philip II; Alexander III; Philip III; Macedonia after the Kings; The Persian Kings; The Antigonid Dynasty; The Seleucid Dynasty; The Attalids; The Ptolemaic Dynasty; Lysimachus; The Greek dynasties in Bactria and India.

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Kenneth Sheedy is director of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney and associate professor in the Department of History and Archaeology. He is the author of The Archaic and Early Classical Coinages of the Cyclades, Royal Numismatic Society SP 40 (London 2006). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the representative of the Academy for the SNG Australia Project at the Union Académique Internationale, and is the author of Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Australia I. The Gale Collection of South Italian Coins (Sydney 2008).

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