Just an update on the
Lydia coinage books
The bronze volume is finished and is at the publishers in Istanbul. I have already sent them a couple of updates but I would say that we have now reached the "cut off" point, so any newly discovered coins or variations will need to go into a supplement.
It is taking a
bit of time to resize and reconfigure the images and make sure that - with the font that they are using - the number of coins on the plates match the number of entries on the text pages.
If I remember correctly, I managed to find 5,640 (or near as dammit) bronze
Lydians, and nearly 90% of them have images. Two very
rare (1 known) issues were hunted down in Prague and
Vienna and I even managed to track the
provenance of the Prague coin back to the early 1800s.
The Bronze volume does
not include "
Sardes" coins of
Alexander III, Philip III,
Lysimachos and the Seleukids with their names.
The person who was supposed to do the silver coins volume has been ill and has been unable to do it, so I have taken on that job as well. At first I thought I would just cover the Lydian
cistophori of Nysa,
Sardes and
Tralles, but then I thought I needed Croesus and the Achaemides, and then I decided to add the
Sardes issues of
Alexander III's and Philip III. But you can't do them without those of
Lysimachos and Eumenes III, and of course there were several
Seleukid kings who struck silver coins in
Sardes and
Magnesia ad Sipylum. So those are being done as well. I am currently on Seleukos I.
I am
still puzzling out how to add the archaic Greek letter Z (not "our" Z but the one which looks like a capital I with a wide top and bottom
bar) to the Word
doc. I can't find it, even when I switch Word to a Greek keyboard. (using the "Greek" keyboard, an Omega, for example, is my V key, Theta is on my U key..). If anyone knows how to do it on a Western keyboard, I would be happy to hear from you!
