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Interpretation of coin finds is not quite an easy thing. How to distinguish, e. g., material of ‘hoards’ from that of ‘votive deposits’? Where are the ‘border lines’ dividing numismatic find categories from each other? Questions like these deserve a closer scrutiny. This book tries to face the problems by: proposing clear definitions for categories and sub-categories of coin finds; by collecting and interpreting written testimonies (from ancient literature, epigraphy and papyrology) casting light on reasons and circumstances of coin deposition and coin loss in antiquity; by describing differences of composition between the categories; by discussing difficulties of ‘differential diagnosis’; and the role of secondary finds. For each problem and for each find category a large number of examples is offered.

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Prof. Günther E. Thüry (born Vienna 1950) has been a university lecturer in Ancient History at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg since 1980 (at times in combination with teaching assignments at the universities of Basel, Krems, Leipzig and Vienna). He completed his studies in the fields of prehistory and early history, archaeobiology and classical philology (Latin and Greek studies) with a master's thesis in numismatics and a dissertation in provincial archaeology. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel for services to cooperation between archaeology and natural sciences; and in 2018, he was awarded the title of professor by the Austrian Federal President. Prof. Thüry is the author of 345 publications (including 18 published books).

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