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Steve Minnoch:
Can anybody tell me how many parts and pages the volume (Band II) of AMNG dealing with Thrace is made up of?
Many thanks,
Steve
curtislclay:
Only Part 1 was ever published, covering Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos, 308 pp., 8 pl., F. Muenzer and M.L. Strack, Berlin 1912.
Steve Minnoch:
Thanks Curtis.
A small matter of World War I intervening one presumes.
Steve
curtislclay:
The lost war ended the funding for any such work, plus a lot of the younger generation of German numismatic scholars were killed in the war, including, I believe, M.L. Strack. Of course the effects were just as devastating on the European "winners", France, Britain, and Italy!
The only AMNG volume publ. after the war, III.2, Macedonia and Paionia, 1935, by H. Gaebler, is a sad spectacle. It has 40 plates, which however had been printed 40 years earlier, in 1895, and whose existence was the only reason that something, anything, finally had to be published!
This volume is a description EXCLUSIVELY of the coins illustrated in the plates, with a fair number of interesting notes and explanations appended to the descriptions.
How inadequate this is may be judged from the fact that the plates were the WEAKEST part of the superb earlier AMNG volumes. The strength of those volumes is the exhaustive, meticulous cataloguing of all specimens of the coinages in question that were found in existing collections or had been published in earlier works, plus the illuminating introductions to the provinces and the individual mints, all with, unfortunately, far too few illustrations.
The exhaustive catalogue and excellent introductions, the meat of the earlier volumes, were entirely omitted from III.2 of 1935. All we get is a description of the interesting, but far too selective plates, plus comments which go some way towards replacing the missing introductions.
Steve Minnoch:
I am discovering some of that myself, having got my hands on the Dacia/Moesia and Thrace parts (hence the initial question) - though it is difficult to get anything like the full value of it when your German is limited to ordering coffee and asking the way to the railway station.
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