Overview

The Abraham and Marian Sofaer collection consists of 4,000 coins and related objects produced by the peoples who inhabited the Holy Land from the Persian period in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE through the Crusader Kingdom in the 13th century of the modern era. Assembled over more than 30 years, the collection contains gold, silver and bronze coins of the Persians, Greeks, Samarians, Jews, Nabataeans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and Crusaders. Highlights of the collection include a rich selection of the fractional silver coinage of Samaria; a comprehensive assemblage of the coins of the Hasmonaean and Herodian Jewish dynasties; superb examples of coinage issued during the Jewish revolts from Rome; fully representative runs of the coinages of the cities of Galilee, Samaria, Judaea, Idumaea and the Decapolis under Roman rule; and rare examples of the Umayyad and Abassid coinages produced in Jerusalem and elsewhere. All coins are fully described and illustrated on 238 plates. These volumes will serve as standard reference works for archaeologists, historians and numismatists studying two millennia of the history of the Holy Land.

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Author:   Ya'akov Meshorer ,  Gabriela Bijovsky ,  Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert ,  David Hendin
Publisher:   American Numismatic Society,U.S.
Imprint:   American Numismatic Society,U.S.
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 22.40cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 28.70cm
Weight:   2.585kg
ISBN:  

9780897222839

ISBN 10:   0897222830
Pages:   588
Publication Date:   30 April 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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David Hendin is an expert in coins and weights of the ancient Levant. His original research has been published in more than 75 journal articles and book chapters, and he has written of hundreds of magazine articles. Hendin is first vice president and adjunct curator at the American Numismatic Society. In 1985 and 1986 he was chief numismatist of the Joint Sepphoris Project under the auspices of Duke University and Hebrew University and Duke’s Sepphoris Research Project in 2011. Once the Deputy Director of the American Numismatic Society, Meadows now teaches ancient history at Oxford University.

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