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Title: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Joe Sermarini on November 07, 2012, 09:04:25 am
Please use this topic to announce the publication of new numismatic, antiquity, and history books, and/or provide comments or reviews on new books.  
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: mharlan on November 21, 2012, 06:51:30 pm
I want to announce the publication of my new book Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 81 BCE-64 BCE. Some of you may know my earlier book Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 63 BC-49 BC published in 1995 which is now out of print (I am working on a revision). This new volume fills out the early years of the Sullan constitution covering thirty-four moneyers who minted between 81 and 64. I self-published this book in the U.S. and it is now beginning to be distributed through dealers. Forum Ancient Coins will be adding it to their book list soon.    240 pages with 144 enlarged illustrations $24.95    I will be quite happy to discuss any of the coins on the forum board.     Michael Harlan
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: vk on November 22, 2012, 01:22:09 am
Please let us know when we can order it from Forum.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Joe Sermarini on November 26, 2012, 11:14:07 pm
Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 81 BCE-64 BCE is available now from Forum.  I have only just had the opportunity to open to a few random pages and read a few paragraphs.  I was facinated and impressed.  I look forward to reading the entire book. 

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1834&pos=0#Roman Books (https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1834&pos=0#Roman Books)
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Andrew McCabe on November 27, 2012, 02:57:28 am
Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 81 BCE-64 BCE is available now from Forum.  I have only just had the opportunity to open to a few random pages and read a few paragraphs.  I was facinated and impressed.  I look forward to reading the entire book.  

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1834&pos=0#Roman Books (https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1834&pos=0#Roman Books)

I've read it, cover to cover, and discussed it with others who have expertise in the era. There will be a book review by my in the forthcoming Numismatic Chronicle.  
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: ras on February 25, 2013, 05:49:20 am
I'll take Joe's opportunity then to note that I've begun work on the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins.

This new edition is a very ambitious undertaking that aims to take a far more detailed look at the coinage of the periods covered in ERIC II. Because of the complexity of the project and the shoe-string budget I expect it will be several years before the material is ready for press. If it's any indication, two months after having started I have managed to complete less than 2% of the almost 300 sections that make up the book despite putting in 16-18hr workdays. While that could be pretty discouraging my level of enthusiasm is high as the process of building the data is exciting in a nerdy sort of way.

If you would like to become involved (or just keep tabs on the project) please visit http://dirtyoldbooks.com/eric3/

Ras
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Optimo Principi on May 01, 2013, 11:02:09 am
Just wanted to say how pleased I am with the newish "Coins of Rome" books by Daniele Leoni. So far the series consists of Trajan, Hadrian, Nero and Septimius Severus - detailing the significanace of their coinage with wonderful illustration throughout as well as maps and original photography. A history text with well researched numismatic focus. Basically the type of book I've always thought should have been made.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Lerian on May 01, 2013, 11:42:29 am
where can you find the Daniele Leoni books from?

After seeing your post I looked on Forum's book store and at Amazon (UK) but no luck?
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Andrew McCabe on May 01, 2013, 01:41:31 pm
where can you find the Daniele Leoni books from?

After seeing your post I looked on Forum's book store and at Amazon (UK) but no luck?

They are in the bookstore on the Campidoglio. I saw it there last week (yes, really). Presumably all Romans are regular visitors to the Capitoline hill during priestly ceremonies etc. so it should be easy to pick up in passing.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on May 01, 2013, 01:55:15 pm
Andrew,

Were the copies you saw in English or Italian?

I suspect these are just going to be "coffee-table" books rather than anything helpful and well grounded, but I'd like to take a look!
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Andrew McCabe on May 01, 2013, 01:58:29 pm
Andrew,

Were the copies you saw in English or Italian?

I suspect these are just going to be "coffee-table" books rather than anything helpful and well grounded, but I'd like to take a look!

Italian. I took a cursory look at the cover of one but since the Republic was not yet covered I didn't look further.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Optimo Principi on May 01, 2013, 02:09:28 pm
The Nero, Trajan,and Hadrian editions are now in English. I think you would be surprised at the level of detail and amount of excellent illustrations.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on May 01, 2013, 02:21:18 pm
Maybe you could post here or e-mail me (address in my profile) a larger, readable scan of the Circus Maximus page?
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: mauseus on May 01, 2013, 02:43:26 pm
Hi Curtis,

The Circus Maximus page is readable. Click on the image and click again on the one that opens up and it is clear.

Regards,

Mauseus
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on May 01, 2013, 03:16:48 pm
Mauseus, thanks for the tip.

There is nothing on that page that would make me want the book.

Just an architectural history of the Circus, which I can find in any topographical dictionary of Rome.

Very little about Trajan's coin type itself. No mention of the starting gates on the right, from which chariots are sometimes shown emerging, and that at the left we see Titus' arch which is mentioned in the text. No mention of the temple topped by facing head of Sol to l. of the obelisk or of the other monuments on the spina apart from the obelisk and the turning posts.

No mention of Trajan's surviving inscription recording his reconstruction of the Circus and addition of seating for 5000 spectators in 103 AD. No mention of Woytek's recent dating of Trajan's Circus sestertii to that same year, 103, nor his discovery of a die link between the Circus type and the type showing Trajan addressing a crowd in the Circus, proving that the Speech in Circus type was contemporaneous with the architectural type, both of which evidently commemorated Trajan's reopening of the Circus in 103.

But maybe these details are on the following pages, not reproduced here?
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Optimo Principi on May 01, 2013, 03:29:33 pm
Hi Curtis,

I never said the text was an in-depth academic work but as a nice celebration of an emperor's coinage (especially one you collect) it is a welcome addition to the bookshelf. There are a ton of topics over 67 pages, inspired by coin reverses, so it can't go into intricate detail on every one. The plentiful photographs of coin types throughout make it worthwhile alone, in my opinion.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on May 01, 2013, 04:00:51 pm
Kained,

But wouldn't you, as a collector, be more interested in the kind of facts I give, allowing you to appreciate the details of the coin type and the reason for its appearance in 103 AD, rather than the general history of the building recounted by Leoni?
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Joe Sermarini on May 01, 2013, 04:13:33 pm
Kained,

But wouldn't you, as a collector, be more interested in the kind of facts I give, allowing you to appreciate the details of the coin type and the reason for its appearance in 103 AD, rather than the general history of the building recounted by Leoni?

I find both equally interesting. :)
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: SC on May 13, 2013, 10:31:19 am
I originally posted this review in the old Sofaer collection thread but am posting it here at the request of another member.


The ANS (American Numismatic Society) has published a new two volume set:.  

Coins of the Holy Land: The Abraham and Marian Sofaer Collection at the American Numismatic Society and the Israel Museum. (Ancient Coins in North American Collections 8, 2013) by Ya’akov Meshorer with Gabriela Bijovsky and Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, and edited by David Hendin and Andrew Meadows.  
(ISBN-13: 978-0-89722-283-9 Hardback, 2 vols, 344+244pp)

My Initial Thoughts

I have browsed through the whole book but have only started to look at a couple of sections in depth so I only have initial impressions to share.

First of all, about the physical books themselves.  

The first volume of the two volume set covers the text, the second has the plates.  Personally I like this system as you can have both volumes open at the same time - one to the text and one to the plates.  It is far better than flipping through the same volume to consult the plates.  I also find it better than volumes that try to have the plate facing the text as these always seem to have exceptions where you still have to flip back and forth to find the right pages.

The book, printing, paper, binding and illustrations are all extremely high quality as is to be expected in modern ANS publications.  The vast majority of illustrations appear to be "life-size" though there are some small coins, especially in the Samarian section, that are shown life-size and enlarged.

The Coverage

The book details a single collection of coins from a single region.  It is the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Sofaer that is on loan, and in fact in the process of being permanently donated to, the ANS in New York.  The book covers coins of the Holy Land region although in this case that covers modern Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Jordan.  I might be mistaken but I don't think it covers a single city from what is today Lebanon or Syria.  It covers coins from the Persian period, through Seleucid and Ptolemaic occupation, Hasmonaean, Herodian and Nabataean issues, Roman Provincial, Byzantine, Arabic and Crusader.  However, it only covers coins struck in the region and thus, for example, does not cover Seleucid coins struck in Antioch or Ptolemaic coins struck in Alexandria.

The Organization.

The organization is an interesting one, and fairly unique as far as I have seen.  Most of the work is divided by city and under each city entry you find listed Persian, Greek, Roman Provincial, Byzantine, Arab and Crusader coins in chronological order.  The exceptions to this are the Judaean (Hasmonaean, Herodian and revolt) and Nabataean coins which have their own sections.

Assessment

As I noted before this is only an initial assessment.  

You have to keep in mind that the book is a corpus of one collection and not of all coinage and variations from the region.  Thus it is most like the SNG ANS 6 volume (though it goes past that volume to add Byzantine, Arabic and Crusader).  That said it is likely on of the best collections in the world from this region.  Furthermore, much of the coinage of the region has been insufficiently studied to date.

I think you have to examine some of the coinage types separately to determine the extra value of this work.

I do not know enough about the Persian era coinage to know about the coverage but at first glance I do not see any huge leap beyond SNG ANS 6 or, more importantly the recent Hoover volume on this area.  

Similarly it does not look to add a huge amount beyond the Lorber and Houghton Seleucid Coinage volumes although I expect there are several new pieces of information here.  

These days every little bit on Ptolemaic coinage is valuable although I understand that a new important work by Lorber is underway at the ANS.

While the Judaean collection is certainly impressive this work will not replace the need for the 5th edition of David Hendin's book.

It has interesting and up to date info on Nabataean coinage though I do not have the ANS' recent Caravan Kingdoms volumes to compare it with.

The Arabic coinage looks very interesting, and it is useful to have it broken down by mint.  However, I can not comment on degree of coverage knowing little about the recent literature in this area and I simply can not say anything regarding the crusader coinage which I know nothing about.

Even if the book does not represent the full picture in any of these areas it is still an excellent resource for them.  The plates and the fact the information is up to date make it very worthwhile to have.

However, it is in the remaining areas that the book really comes to the fore.

I know very little about Samarian coinage but I see no reason to doubt the comments by the authors and editors themselves who note that this work is a major leap forward in understand this extensive coinage of small silver fractions.

Finally, the real interest for me is in the Roman provincial coinage.  I think that it is here that the book really stands head and shoulder over all others.  My main sources in this area were SNG ANS 6 and Spijkerman and to a lesser extent the Lindgren trio.  True the Sofaer collection book does not present every variant and every possible legend reconstruction but it appears to exceed most other sources in number of types for each city and with the collection's concentration on coins of the highest quality it offers the best legend reconstructions anywhere.  I have looked in particular at some cities like Abila, Pella, Philadelphia/Rabbath-Ammon and Petra and been very impressed.  I have yet to look at other cities in depth.  

My well worn Spijkerman that has been my first go-to source for this coinage for many years will now get a well earned rest on the back shelf.  Still useful for legend variations and such but the Sofaer collection will be front and centre for a long time.

Overall it was worth the long wait and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in coinage of the Holy Land and especially to those interested in Roman provincial coins of the region.

It is not cheap.  The forum book store does not seem to carry it.  It can be found at the ANS bookstore site and people should be aware that there is a substantial discount for members.  In fact the discount is over 50% of the annual membership fee.

Shawn

Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: roamin12 on August 07, 2013, 12:38:39 pm
About Daniele Leoni's books:
I purchased a copy of the Trajan book by Daniele Leoni (in English) at the book store at the Colosseum in Rome in June 2012.  A few brief comments: It is an attractive supplement to my RIC and other coin books, and shows a number of the coins that I have.  I like the balance of many pictures and a moderate amount of text to give some context (indeed, mostly available elsewhere, so nice it is more of a snippet rather than an attempt to be comprehensive).

I would like to purchase the Hadrian book in English; please continue making suggestions of how to find other than returning to Rome!

I periodically check the e-shop ( http://www.lemonetediroma.com/e-shop.html ) listed in her book to see if the English part is active (says under construction as of 7 Aug 2013). I'm assuming that is where a order can be placed some day.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Jay GT4 on August 07, 2013, 01:13:11 pm
Just to clarify, Daniele Leoni is a man!
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: SC on August 19, 2013, 08:44:38 am
I discovered a new book on my visit to Carnuntum last weekend.  It was sitting for sale in the gift shop though I had not heard of it or seen it anywhere else.

Living By The Coins: Roman Life in the Light of Coin Finds and Archaeology within a Residential Quarter of Carnuntum, by Cristian Găzdac and Franz Humer, Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Wien, 2013.

The book is excellent quality, harcover, large (approx 8 1/2 x 11 or A4) format, 370 pages.  It sold for about 40 Euro.

It is entirely in English, which is unusual for a book published by and about Carnuntum.  One author is Romanian, one Austrian, which I think is why English was chosen.  The English is quite good though there are a couple places where it is stilted to the point of requiring a couple of read-throughs.

Despite the name the work is in effect an excavation report. It is extremely well done and can serve as a model for certain types of excavation reports.  It covers the quarter of Carnuntum (in actuality approximately 0.5% of the site) that has been excavated and opened to the public.  This section is known as the Spaziergarten, Insula VI or the Open-Air Museum.  For those who know Carnuntum it consisted of the main grounds of the site that is open to the public - the site that today includes the 3.5 reconstructed buildings, a couple of buildings still in ruined/foundation state and several stone roads.

It begins with a 25 page section, profusely illustrated in colour, outlining the history of Carnuntum, the excavations there,  the buildings and roads covered by the work and the history of the reconstruction of the buildings.  

This is followed by 27 pages of Numismatic Comments.  This summarizes the finds and provides details on the one hoard (a small hoard of Tetrarchic nummi and argentei).  It also details the many moulds found at the site for making limesfalsa (which the authors use to mean cast bronze copies of second century large bronzes and of third century denarii and antoninani).

Other than bibliography and maps the rest of the book is dedicated to the catalogue of finds and related tables and charts.  The catalogue is not done by the entire quarter but is broken down into individual sites: North Street (181 coins); South Street (177 coins); East Street (9 coins); West Street (204 coins); Portico (21 coins); Baths (135 coins); Valetudinarium (50 coins); East Building (25 coins); Villa Urbana (503 coins); House I (217 coins plus hoard of 50 coins); House II (81 coins); House III (30 coins); House IV (183 coins); House V (63 coins); Info centre/Restaurant (24 coins); Stray finds (11 coins).  

There is a separate entry for each of these, by my count, 1864 coins.  The entry includes: date, denomination, mint, reference (usually RIC), die axis, diameter, weight, inventory #, find year and archeological context (period, level, etc).  

Mint and field marks are sometimes shown under reference, though sometimes only the RIC number is given and a look at RIC is required.  The inclusion of full RIC number and mint and field marks is something sadly lacking in many catalogues.  I was very happy to see it here in particular as I am interested in which exact issues of the Siscia issues of the SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE and GLORIA ROMANORVM types of Valentinian I and Valens appear at Carnuntum.  

The tables list number found by denomination and by Emperor/period for each site.  The graphs show similar information but also show number/reign divided by year.  At the back are 22 black and white plates illustrating around 300 coins total.


Overall the work is excellent.  However, as it is mainly a catalogue I would not recommend it to everyone.  It would be of little interest to many collectors.  Though, that said anyone who actually visits Carnuntum should pick it up as a souvenir.  For those though interested in site catalogues this is an excellent one.

Shawn




Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: PeterD on January 08, 2014, 07:55:06 am
I have just received a copy of a new book 'Collecting Medieval Coins: A Beginner's Guide' by Paul A. Torongo.

Even those of us who are not complete beginners should benefit from this book. The book is a 386 page large format paperback. It is not a catalogue of coins but there are illustrations in colour with descriptions of hundreds of coins. There are many different topics including how to decipher those strange looking letter forms found on medieval coins, contemporary imitations and modern forgeries. Some Islamic and Asian coins are covered as well as Europe.

The book is only available on Amazon at quite a reasonable price, where you can see selected pages. In fact it is self-published. See http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n37a10.html for an interesting blog about the trials and tribulations of doing this.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Optimo Principi on January 23, 2014, 05:34:00 pm
This looks like it will be quite a tome! Packer's work on Trajan's Forum was incredibly detailed and I imagine this will be even moreso..

The Roman Forum: A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Roman-Forum-Reconstruction-Architectural/dp/0521192447/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1ST1K2JW2A4IR&coliid=I2YX7HKR94E4V5 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Roman-Forum-Reconstruction-Architectural/dp/0521192447/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1ST1K2JW2A4IR&coliid=I2YX7HKR94E4V5)
Title: Essays in Honour of Roberto Russo
Post by: Andrew McCabe on March 26, 2014, 09:43:44 am
Yesterday I received a new book, Essays in Honour of Roberto Russo, that may be the most important serious publication on Roman Republican coinage since Essays Hersh was published in 1998. Roberto Russo, 1945-2012, is known to most as the proprietor of NAC; less well known was that he was also a respected numismatist, who wrote perhaps the most significant paper within the Essays Hersh volume; it has been my honour to fulfil a similar role for Essays Russo, as my own 175 page paper on Republican bronzes is a cornerstone of the new book. I'll address my own paper in a separate thread on the Roman Coins board, but this is an introduction to the book as a whole. For the moment, advance copies of Essays Russo are available direct from the publisher, NAC in Milan (details bottom of this note), but other distribution channels are being arranged.

Format: 426 pages, hardback with dustcover, very heavy paper, illustrations throughout, see pictures below.

Contents (picture of index below)

Witschonke - Preface
Arturo Russo - Biography of Roberto Russo, a sample page below (note me in the picture!)
Bibliography

Papers on Greek Numismatics:
Rutter - Early Coinages of Sicily, Cyprus and Crete
Boehringer - Maestro della foglia
Campana - Emissione Siciliana a nome di Hermas e Pan
Santelli - Contromarche di Zeus Eleutherio
Morcom - Mint Sharing in Western Sicily
Gitler - Samarian types inspired by Athens

Papers on Roman Numismatics
Vagi - Rome's first Didrachm
Burnett - a Puzzling Early Roman Coin
McCabe - Anonymous Struck Bronze Coinage of the Roman Republic
Schaefer - A Find from Campamento Ampurias
Pancotti - Attis nella monetazione romana repubblicana
Russo - The Retariffing of the Denarius (an important unpublished paper by Roberto)
Buttrey - Grammer and History, Thoughts on Republican coins
Witschonke - Unpublished Roman Republican coins
Stannard - Quartered and Countermarked Republican Asses
Woytek - Unpublished Denarius Hybrids, and the Sestertius of Considius Paetus
Amandry - L.Atratinvs Avgvr / Antonivs Imp
Kovacs - Eusebeia, Civic bronzes

Papers on Mediaeval Numismatics
Travaini - Corrado IV

I will write more on my own paper in a separate note on the Roman Coins thread. Pending arrangements for distribution (especially in the US) the book is already available direct from NAC, Milan. Price USD $150 +p&p, or equivalent in other currencies, payable by Paypal or bank transfer. To order please contact NAC Milan Tatiania Granata, tatianagranata@arsclassicacoins.com
Title: The RBW Collection of Roman Republican Coins, by Roberto Russo
Post by: Andrew McCabe on March 26, 2014, 10:19:29 am
Yesterday I also received my copy of another wonderful new book, the single volume, hardback book edition of the RBW Collection of Roman Republican Coins. As the NAC61 and NAC63 auction catalogues (that this book is partly based on) were written by Roberto Russo (1945-2012), Roberto is credited as the principal author, together with Alberto de Falco; the book represents a comprehensive revision with a great deal of extra material and many extra coins as compared with NAC61/63, with extra historical notes by David Vagi, and extra numismatic notes throughout by myself, and Richard Witschonke.

I show a variety of pictures of the book below, but I want to highlight the substantial differences between this and the catalogues that it was based on.

- It includes all the gold coins of the RBW collection which were not included in NAC61/63, as well as some other coin types that had been omitted from the original sales. Some of the sample pictures below illustrate gold, e.g. a portrait aureus of Brutus and the famed first Roman portrait gold of Flamininus, both coins of great rarity, and that were not in NAC61/63, as well as many dozen more rare gold types

- The book has been rearranged in strict Crawford order (unlike the sale catalogues) and thus will be a useful and relatively inexpensive alternative to buying Crawford's RRC, and in fact illustrates far more coin types than Crawford

- The book is in SNG format, with the pictures on pages facing the cataloguing and text. However unlike SNG volumes, it is in full colour, and as such it may be the first comprehensive catalogue presented in this format. You can see in the example below, the entire Sickle series, Crawford 26, arranged on a single page with silver, struck bronze and aes grave. Such a picture of an entire large Crawford series, in all metals, has never been seen before, and this book is full of such pages.

- Every effort has been made to arrange pictures for clarity, for example, it avoids breaking Crawford series across two pages, unless the series is too long for one page, and enlargements are chosen to illustrate varieties, in the pictures below you will see that the varieties of Scarpus denarii, are enlarged for comparison; this selective enlargement has been used throughout the book to illustrate difficult series.

- The coin descriptions have been corrected throughout; it's not well known that hastily assembled auction catalogues often have many errors; especial care has been taken to eliminate these errors; overall there are perhaps some hundreds of corrections relative to NAC61/63

- The notes written by Roberto Russo and RBW have been kept throughout the book, but in addition, there are many historical descriptions written by David Vagi (most of which were not in NAC61/63) as well as numismatic notes added by Andrew McCabe and by Richard Witschonke (none of which were in NAC61/63). Some of these numismatic notes comment on special coin types. Other notes comment on research work that is underway or will be done in future, as an example, the note on the page of Luceria bronzes that comments on future work.

- prices realised as well as estimates are shown for all coins; rarity is also indicated for scarce or rare coins. As such it provides a much better indication of actual prices and rarities than Sear's handbook

I expect this book to become a standard reference in the future. As with Essays Russo which I discussed in an earlier note, pending arrangements for distribution (especially in the US) the book is already available direct from NAC, Milan. Price USD $150 +p&p, or equivalent in other currencies, payable by Paypal or bank transfer. To order please contact NAC Milan Tatiania Granata, tatianagranata@arsclassicacoins.com

Andrew
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Molinari on March 26, 2014, 10:20:14 am
Congratulations on the publications Andrew.  I can't wait to get my copies!
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Andrew McCabe on March 26, 2014, 10:21:54 am
Congratulations on the publication Andrew.  I can't wait to get my copy!

Just to further tempt you, the Vagi article in Essays Russo seems to be mostly about man-faced-bull bronzes....
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Molinari on March 26, 2014, 10:29:39 am
Congratulations on the publication Andrew.  I can't wait to get my copy!

Just to further tempt you, the Vagi article in Essays Russo seems to be mostly about man-faced-bull bronzes....

No further temptation needed :)

I'm also very excited about Rutter's article, and I was lucky enough to see some of Campana's already.  Now I'm just wondering if I get both at once to save on shipping, in which case I would have to wait a couple more weeks.  The shipping on books from Europe to the US is insane.  I just got Jenkins' Punic for $60, and the seller paid 21 euros in shipping costs!
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Andrew McCabe on March 26, 2014, 10:35:08 am
Congratulations on the publication Andrew.  I can't wait to get my copy!
Just to further tempt you, the Vagi article in Essays Russo seems to be mostly about man-faced-bull bronzes....
No further temptation needed :)

I'm also very excited about Rutter's article, and I was lucky enough to see some of Campana's already.  Now I'm just wondering if I get both at once to save on shipping, in which case I would have to wait a couple more weeks.  The shipping on books from Europe to the US is insane.  I just got Jenkins' Punic for $60, and the seller paid 21 euros in shipping costs!

There will likely be a US distributor in due course (with luck that will include Forum's coin shop) but that may take some time to arrange. Whilst I wrote at least a third of the pages in Essays Russo (yes ... I am very long-winded), and am an editor of Russo's RBW book, the distribution is an NAC matter.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Carausius on March 26, 2014, 11:26:21 am
Well, you've been busy! Seriously though, thanks for sharing the news of these very important releases.  While I've only recently added Roman Republic coins to my collecting interests, I can see the need for more publication of current scholarship on this fascinating series. I'm excited to order my copies!
Title: Editorial and ISBN data for Essays Russo and RBW collection
Post by: Andrew McCabe on March 26, 2014, 11:54:24 am
Dear Forum

In my excitement at describing the new books I omitted to provide the details of authorship, editorship etc. Here they are:

Essays in Honour of Roberto Russo
Edited by Peter G. van Alfen and Richard B Witschonke
Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG,
Zurich - London 2013
ISBN 978-88-7794-837-3

The RBW Collection of Roman Republican Coins
by Roberto Russo
With the collaboration of Alberto de Falco
With historical notes by David Vagi
Edited by Andrew McCabe, Arturo Russo, Giuliano Russo, Claire Hallgarth
Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG,
Zurich - London 2013
ISBN 978-88-7794-835-9

Advance copies of both books available from NAC, Milan, for $150 + p&p each, contact Tatiania Granata, tatianagranata@arsclassicacoins.com
US and other distributors to be confirmed.
Title: Re: Editorial and ISBN data for Essays Russo and RBW collection
Post by: Molinari on March 26, 2014, 12:27:39 pm
Dear Forum

In my excitement at describing the new books I omitted to provide the details of authorship, editorship etc. Here they are:

Essays in Honour of Roberto Russo
Edited by Peter G. van Alfen and Richard B Witschonke
Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG,
Zurich - London 2013
ISBN 978-88-7794-837-3

The RBW Collection of Roman Republican Coins
by Roberto Russo
With the collaboration of Alberto de Falco
With historical notes by David Vagi
Edited by Andrew McCabe, Arturo Russo, Giuliano Russo, Claire Hallgarth
Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG,
Zurich - London 2013
ISBN 978-88-7794-835-9

Advance copies of both books available from NAC, Milan, for $150 + p&p each, contact Tatiania Granata, tatianagranata@arsclassicacoins.com
US and other distributors to be confirmed.

I just heard back from NAC, it isn't available until next week :(
Title: Re: Editorial and ISBN data for Essays Russo and RBW collection
Post by: Andrew McCabe on March 26, 2014, 12:36:32 pm
I just heard back from NAC, it isn't available until next week :(

They've already been printed, I suspect that time's just to get a bulk shipment arranged from Bologna to Milan. It took 3 years to get these two books into print, running in parallel, so a week should (?) be bearable, although it's easy for me to say because I've got my copies already!
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Sam on March 26, 2014, 12:49:55 pm
Who ever writes a book or helps on one , always seeks rewards , except who partakes in a book about coins. Lucky if was not blamed.

But I would say Congratulations , Andrew for this Honor . :)
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on March 26, 2014, 01:25:10 pm
Both books sound excellent!

I can imagine that the RBW catalogue will become a useful standard reference to be consulted alongside Crawford!
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Arados on March 26, 2014, 02:31:44 pm
Just wanted to say how pleased I am with the newish "Coins of Rome" books by Daniele Leoni. So far the series consists of Trajan, Hadrian, Nero and Septimius Severus - detailing the significanace of their coinage with wonderful illustration throughout as well as maps and original photography. A history text with well researched numismatic focus. Basically the type of book I've always thought should have been made.

I picked up my copy of Nero in the Colosseum shop of all places and possibly slightly overpriced due to the location. A wonderful pictorial journey through Nero´s life and a very fascinating read indeed.

Edit: I know, better late than never.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Meepzorp on March 29, 2014, 09:18:15 am
Hi Andrew,

Both books sound very interesting to me. I am somewhat interested in Roman Republic coins. I have Crawford.

Please let us know when there is a US distributor, especially if Forum is one.

Meepzorp
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Molinari on April 02, 2014, 08:11:09 am
I hope there is a US distributor soon.  The titles, with shipping, equal 145 euros each, so the shipping charges amount to about $100 for the two books!  FYI, they are now available from NAC at the address Andrew provided above.

I want these badly, but unfortunately I cannot justify the $100 in shipping fees, so I'll have to wait for a US distributor, I think :(

Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Molinari on April 02, 2014, 08:35:31 am
I was wrong, if one buys both books the shipping is 47 euros, so roughly $65 USD.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: carthago on April 02, 2014, 09:57:39 am
The books are in from the printer and available for purchase according to NAC.  I just received confirmation of my order and paid for it today. 
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Molinari on April 02, 2014, 10:39:39 am
  I just received confirmation of my order and paid for it today. 

Me too.  I couldn't wait around for a US distributor and from what I gather that might be a long time away!

Can't wait to read your work, Andrew.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Molinari on April 07, 2014, 11:43:53 am
Apparently $65 in shipping fees means fast service.  I received my copies today!
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Andrew McCabe on April 07, 2014, 12:01:50 pm
 ;D  +++

You are better off than me then, I had to bring my copies to show my mum on mother's day's, where of course they were held for safe-keeping, so at the moment I don't have a copy of either book. Enjoy!
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Andrew McCabe on April 08, 2014, 04:00:33 am
I've received some nice off list comments via PM from people who have bought either Essays Russo, or RBW. The books are indeed being delivered.

One question was asked on the numbers at the end of each coin listing: they are: estimate / price realised (hammer) in Swiss Francs. The estimate is there for more than decoration - Roberto Russo paid careful attention to the estimates and they reflect the minimum that he considered each coin to be worth in a normal auction market environment. Some of the silver sold for very frothy prices, and some of the bronzes, due to the great numbers offered, were unsold, but the estimate was, in Roberto's opinion, somehow a fair indication of minimum long-term value for both.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: carthago on April 08, 2014, 01:53:20 pm
Just received mine.  It's a beautiful book and a quick look through it shows McCabe's footprints all over it.  

Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: dafnis on April 09, 2014, 05:51:23 am
I received it yesterday as well - I already had the NAC 61, 63 catalogues (though not the Triton III where most of the gold was auctioned off), but this is clearly in a different league. Very pleased with the purchase! Love the SNG-type composition, makes for wonderful and easy reading-looking. Will be an invaluable companion to my Crawford.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Carausius on April 10, 2014, 10:51:56 am
I was going to wait a month or two before ordering my copies, as I'm still paying - off some recent coin purchases, but you guys make it difficult to resist. I just ordered both books!
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Molinari on April 10, 2014, 10:59:53 am
You'll be glad you did.

My only complaint, and it is a very small one, is that the RBW book does not have a table of contents, so if I wanted to look up a specific moneyer's coins, say, L. Sempronius Pitio, I'd have to know chronologically when his coins appeared.  A moneyer-specific index might have solved this problem too.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Carausius on April 10, 2014, 11:58:05 am
I expect the RBW book to serve as a companion to Crawford. As long long as the arrangement follows Crawford, the lack of an index shouldn't bother me too much.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Andrew McCabe on April 10, 2014, 12:41:03 pm
I expect the RBW book to serve as a companion to Crawford. As long long as the arrangement follows Crawford, the lack of an index shouldn't bother me too much.

The arrangement follows Crawford exactly. Various rearrangements in NAC61/63 needed to be undone to achieve this (whew! a major piece of work), for example the aes grave and the gold (Triton 3) were separated from the NAC61/63 sequence, and Roberto used NAC61 to explore various new arrangement ideas - these again have been undone so as to revert to proper Crawford arrangement, however where such ideas were proposed by Roberto they have been replaced with text that synthesises those ideas, usually with added commentary by me to say what I think of them.

As for being a companion - yes, to expert collectors who would want both books given that RBW has countless more photographs than are shown in RRC, and up to date commentary, and complements the text in Crawford. But, for the average collector, RBW plus RSC1 (see my next comment) are all you will ever need. The few types missing from RBW will be in RSC1, and the latter serves as an index to Crawford numbers.

My only complaint, and it is a very small one, is that the RBW book does not have a table of contents, so if I wanted to look up a specific moneyer's coins, say, L. Sempronius Pitio, I'd have to know chronologically when his coins appeared.  A moneyer-specific index might have solved this problem too.

Moneyer's index: we didn't think a cross-reference from Babelon was worth the pages it would take up: Crawford's RRC does give such a concordance but it is 40 pages long (!!) and that would have added 10% or $15 to the cost of the book. The ever handy and inexpensive Roman Silver Coins volume 1, by H.A. Seaby (still in print) follows the Babelon arrangement and serves as such an index. You can look up Sempronia in RSC1 (any printing from 1978 onwards) and it'll give the Crawford numbers. I suspect it is very rare that any owner of Crawford RRC actually uses that 40 page concordance given that it's so much quicker to look up RSC.

There are concordance tables from Triton 3 / NAC61 / NAC63 to the RBW book.

I was just reading Vagi's article in Essays Russo .....

I'm glad Nick commented on Essays Russo. In all the discussion on RBW I'd like to prompt a reminder for Essays Russo, which is the real new research volume in contrast to the synthesised information within RBW, by listing its contents

Essays Russo:
Witschonke - Preface
Arturo Russo - Biography of Roberto Russo, a sample page below (note me in the picture!)
Rutter - Early Coinages of Sicily, Cyprus and Crete
Boehringer - Maestro della foglia
Campana - Emissione Siciliana a nome di Hermas e Pan
Santelli - Contromarche di Zeus Eleutherio
Morcom - Mint Sharing in Western Sicily
Gitler - Samarian types inspired by Athens
Vagi - Rome's first Didrachm
Burnett - a Puzzling Early Roman Coin
McCabe - Anonymous Struck Bronze Coinage of the Roman Republic
Schaefer - A Find from Campamento Ampurias
Pancotti - Attis nella monetazione romana repubblicana
Russo - The Retariffing of the Denarius (an important unpublished paper by Roberto)
Buttrey - Grammer and History, Thoughts on Republican coins
Witschonke - Unpublished Roman Republican coins
Stannard - Quartered and Countermarked Republican Asses
Woytek - Unpublished Denarius Hybrids, and the Sestertius of Considius Paetus
Amandry - L.Atratinvs Avgvr / Antonivs Imp
Kovacs - Eusebeia, Civic bronzes
Travaini - Corrado IV
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: carthago on April 11, 2014, 05:53:40 pm
It's really a wonderful work.  It will no doubt become a standard reference for comparative analysis of available types, quality of issues, and particularly pricing.  Some of the prices seemed nutty for individual lots at the time, but it seems many have been supported by more recent auctions for similar issues.   I know that dealers/collectors use large RR collection auctions such as the Leu Nicolas and Haeberlin collections to get a feel for market pricing comparisons, but this work will augment if not supplant that in many cases.   

I'm so glad that NAC and the contributors undertook the project and delivered!  +++
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Stkp on April 17, 2014, 09:21:08 am
I have just received a copy of a new book 'Collecting Medieval Coins: A Beginner's Guide' by Paul A. Torongo.

Even those of us who are not complete beginners should benefit from this book. The book is a 386 page large format paperback. It is not a catalogue of coins but there are illustrations in colour with descriptions of hundreds of coins. There are many different topics including how to decipher those strange looking letter forms found on medieval coins, contemporary imitations and modern forgeries. Some Islamic and Asian coins are covered as well as Europe.

The book is only available on Amazon at quite a reasonable price, where you can see selected pages. In fact it is self-published. See http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n37a10.html for an interesting blog about the trials and tribulations of doing this.

Peter,
I just bought the Torongo book based on your recommendation and I am enjoying it.  There is not enough literature published on the medieval period, and I appreciate what I can find.

Stkp
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: snapapuss on April 22, 2014, 01:54:02 pm
The Leone Trajan and Nero books in English  are available under the books section on the Lanz website on German ebay

steve
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS -Marcus Agrippa Right Hand Man of Caeasar Augustsus
Post by: snapapuss on June 04, 2014, 10:29:28 pm
I was on Amazon looking around and saw this one coming out on Jul 30th 2014
By Lindsay Powell
Looks like a history of Agrippa

I am looking forward to reading it

steve
Title: The Future of Numismatics in the UK
Post by: Andrew McCabe on August 24, 2014, 03:33:57 am
The publication that came out of the conference held in 2011 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals, The British Museum and the Future of UK Numismatics edited by Barrie Cook, is now available online.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publications_series/2011/the_future_of_UK_numismatics.aspx

94 pages, the book is available online in its entirety.

Andrew
Title: RBW and Essays Russo at the ANS
Post by: Andrew McCabe on August 24, 2014, 06:16:23 am
The ANS is now offering the RBW collection book and Essays Russo:

http://numismatics.org/Store/RBWcollection
http://numismatics.org/Store/EssaysRusso

This may interest those US collectors who did not wish to have them shipped from Europe.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: SC on September 09, 2014, 04:20:46 am
I have no idea about this new book but saw it advertised in a catalogue I just got and thought I would share.

Numismatic Archaeology of North America
A Field Guide
Marjorie H Akin (Author); James C Bard (Author); Kevin Akin (Author)

Numismatic Archaeology of North America is the first book to provide an archaeological overview of the coins and tokens found in a wide range of North American archaeological sites. It begins with a comprehensive and well-illustrated review of the various coins and tokens that circulated in North America with descriptions of the uses for, and human behavior associated with, each type. The book contains practical sections on standardized nomenclature, photographing, cleaning, and curating coins, and discusses the impacts of looting and of working with collectors. This is an important tool for archaeologists working with coins. For numismatists and collectors, it explains the importance of archaeological context for complete analysis.

http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=517



Interestingly the cover shows four pictures, the largest by far is a picture of a pile of Chinese cash.  I am considering buying the book just to learn why.

Shawn
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: PeterD on September 09, 2014, 05:58:39 am
It seems the authors have a life-long interest in Asian/American coins and culture. This from Amazon:

Marjorie (Margie) Akin has spent most of her life in California where she completed her education (Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, 1996), married, and raised four children. Her area of specialization within the field of historic archaeology is numismatics and included among her publications are contributions to Roberta Greenwood's Down by the Station: Los Angeles Chinatown 1890-1933, Julia Costello's The Luck of Third Street, and many articles and reports about Asian coins recovered in North America. Her publications in other fields include the seminal essay Passionate Possession: the Formation of private collections (Smithsonian 1992) which examined the world of collectors and the often-fractious relationship between archaeologists and collectors. She has been active in the Riverside "Save Our Chinatown Committee" to protect the archaeological remains of Riverside's Chinatown from development (see www.saveourchinatown.org). James (Jim) Bard completed his education (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1979), married, and raised three children. He has worked professionally as an archaeologist since 1977 when he cofounded a cultural resources management consulting firm, Basin Research Associates, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jim currently is the Pacific Northwest Cultural Resources Lead for Cardno, Inc. in Portland, Oregon. He has worked throughout the western U.S. as a principal investigator and project manager specializing in precontact and historical archaeology. Recovery of Asian as well as U.S. and Canadian coins in varied archaeological contexts focused his lifelong passion for coin collecting into deeper concern for the treatment of numismatic materials by historical archaeologists. His writings include several published articles in regional journals and agency-sponsored cultural resources management compliance reports. Jim believes that much can be gained by cooperation between professional archaeologists and amateur archaeologists, numismatists, and private collectors.Kevin Akin, a retired steam engineer, has provided physical labor for Margie Akin's archaeological projects for 41 years. He is a longtime collector of coins and tokens, an active member of several numismatic organizations, and has designed medals for coin clubs and community organizations.
Title: Re: RBW and Essays Russo at the ANS
Post by: Carausius on October 15, 2014, 01:17:07 pm
The ANS is now offering the RBW collection book and Essays Russo:

http://numismatics.org/Store/RBWcollection
http://numismatics.org/Store/EssaysRusso

This may interest those US collectors who did not wish to have them shipped from Europe.


Oliver Hoover's positive review of both books appears in this month's (2014 Issue 3) ANS magazine.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: PeterD on October 30, 2014, 07:09:42 am
David Sear's website says "Volume V of "Roman Coins and Their Values" (Constantine II to Zeno, A.D. 337-491) is currently in production and should be available by the end of the year."

Spink publishes it but I can't see any mention on their website yet.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Lerian on October 30, 2014, 12:34:30 pm
According to Spink it is now available to pre order.
Title: The Numismatourist
Post by: Andrew McCabe on December 09, 2014, 07:29:30 am
Just received, from the US, an inexpensive volume, The Numismatourist by Howard M. Berlin 2014, Zyrus Press. "The Only Worldwide Travel Guide to Museums, Mints, and Other Places of Interest for the Numismatist". It partly does what it says on the cover. It has 105 museum reviews, most typically 3 pages in length, and most illustrated by three photos, of the museum, of a display, and of some coins. Picture below.

For the museums covered, the reviews are very useful and give a good guide what to expect.

There is however a staggering anti-European bias in the coverage, or it may be a staggering anti-ancients bias.

It DOES feature the History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan, the Central Bank of Oman Currency Museum in Muscat, The Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank of Surinam, Paramaribo, The Reserve Bank of New Zealand Museum in Wellington, the Federal Reserve Bank Money Museum in Kansas City, and The Bank Al-Maghrib Museum in Rabat Morrocco. Well done for broad coverage of the world's continents. All boxes ticked.

It DOES NOT feature The Capitoline Museum, Rome, The Museo Nazionale Rome, nor in fact a single Italian museum south of the River Po. Nor does any museum in France feature, not even the nice display in the Bibliotheque Nationale. Nor any in Austria, which has a splendid series of coin rooms open to the public in the national museum. Not even Greece features, whose numismatic museum in Athens must rank among the best in the world.

It's a nice read, but given those omissions and no doubt dozens of other European numismatic museums, of limited practical use as a worldwide guide, unless you often find yourself in Yerevan, Rabat, Paramaribo or Kansas City. Sorry Dorothy!
Title: Monnaies Romaines, Depeyrot
Post by: Andrew McCabe on December 09, 2014, 07:42:48 am
Just received, from France, "Monnaies Romaines, Histoire et vie d'un Empire", Georges Depeyrot, Archeologie Nouvelle 2014. I bought it because Depeyrot does a marvellous service to numismatic studies and history with his Moneta publications, and because it had a lovely cover full of gold aurei (picture below), and it was inexpensive.

For those who read French it is an excellent, well illustrated book. It's Georges' personal story about what interests him and seems less bland than most general books on ancient coins. For better illustrated than any Wayne Sayles book and therefore of interest to those who do not read French so well.

The illustrations are rather naïve, with sometimes quite worn coins used for illustration, which I rather, like, and quite a lot of variations in colour reproduction, which is actually ok as the pictures are still clear, but this isn't a Danner-machine production. The golds are rather green and the silvers rather brown. I think my picture below gives a fair representation of a typical page. You get a lot of illustrations for your money however.

As with the prior book I commented on, available on Amaz (dot fr, but your UK or US or German sign-in and payment details will work just fine).
Title: Essays Blackburn: Early Mediaeval Monetary History
Post by: Andrew McCabe on December 09, 2014, 09:16:02 am
Borrowed from my library, Essays Blackburn: Early Mediaeval Monetary History, Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn, eds Rory Naismith, Martin Allen, Elina Screen, Ashgate 2014, part of the Studies in Early Mediaeval Britain and Ireland series.

A substantial academic work, 650 pages, I borrowed it because Mark Blackburn was a rather famous and well respected numismatist, curator of the Fitzwilliam, before his untimely death in 2011. 30 essays on mediaeval coinage, of which seven essays on the use and circulation of currency are relevant to earlier periods as well. Lots of interesting stuff, and mostly dealing with coins in the context of hoards, archaeology, economic history etc. Likely of more interest to others than me.
Title: Re: The Numismatourist
Post by: dafnis on December 13, 2014, 04:16:26 am
For the museums covered, the reviews are very useful and give a good guide what to expect.

There is however a staggering anti-European bias in the coverage, or it may be a staggering anti-ancients bias.

It DOES NOT feature The Capitoline Museum, Rome, The Museo Nazionale Rome, nor in fact a single Italian museum south of the River Po. Nor does any museum in France feature, not even the nice display in the Bibliotheque Nationale. Nor any in Austria, which has a splendid series of coin rooms open to the public in the national museum. Not even Greece features, whose numismatic museum in Athens must rank among the best in the world.

Thanks for the review Andrew, had it in my list of upcoming books to acquire, somehow with previous/publisher's descriptions I had been misled.
Probably a very nice book but based on my ancients bias (and I would have hoped to discover in it less known ancient coinage museums) I won't be purchasing it after all.
Title: The Punic Mediterranean
Post by: Andrew McCabe on December 13, 2014, 10:25:18 am
Borrowed from my library today, The Punic Mediterranean, Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule, Quinn and Vella eds, Cambridge, 2014.

Worth noting here as this won't be on the sale shelves of numismatic booksellers, yet there are two chapters on Carthaginian coinage, one by Suzanne Frey-Kupper, "Coins and their use in the Punic Mediterranean: Case studies form Carthage to Italy from the fourth to the first century BCE", 35 pages; and one by Alicia Jiminez, "Punic after Punic Times? The case of the so-called Libypheonician coins of southern Ibera", 15 pages. Other chapters are about archaeological evidence of the Carthaginians from across the Mediterranean world.

Publishers's blurb
The role of the Phoenicians in the economy, culture and politics of the ancient Mediterranean was as large as that of the Greeks and Romans, and deeply interconnected with that 'classical' world, but their lack of literature and their oriental associations mean that they are much less well-known. This book brings state-of-the-art international scholarship on Phoenician and Punic studies to an English-speaking audience, collecting new papers from fifteen leading voices in the field from Europe and North Africa, with a bias towards the younger generation. Focusing on a series of case-studies from the colonial world of the western Mediterranean, it asks what 'Phoenician' and 'Punic' actually mean, how Punic or western Phoenician identity has been constructed by ancients and moderns, and whether there was in fact a 'Punic world'. A host of leading international scholars tests ancient and modern definitions of 'Phoenician' and 'Punic' against case studies, thereby integrating theory with practice. Combines the use of archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic, and literary sources. Brings out the diverse nature of areas hitherto subsumed under the generic label 'Punic' and so gives an insight into the complexities of western Mediterranean history in antiquity.

Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Molinari on December 13, 2014, 01:27:35 pm
On my list.  Thanks, Andrew.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Vincent on December 30, 2014, 10:45:47 am
Author Lee Toone forwarded this announcement of a forthcoming new book from Spink on the London Mint of Constantius and Constantine. Thanks. -Editor

Constantine coin London Mint The London Mint of Constantius and Constantine
 by Hugh Cloke and Lee Toone

A comprehensive catalogue and survey of the output of the London mint from AD 296 to 325. From when Constantius invaded Britain to regain the Britannic Empire back from Allectus to its closure in 325 when Constantine began to shift his power base to the East, the London mint was responsible for a vast output of Roman coinage. In The Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) around 600 types were listed; the authors of this book have increased the number of known types to 995 and have illustrated nearly 95% of these with images on plates facing the catalogue tables in sylloge style. They have also provided a hoard census which lists numbers for each type found in four major hoards. This enables an objective rarity value to be assigned to each coin type.

Supported with a comprehensive narrative, indices and a concordance with RIC, this will become the standard reference work on the London mint for years to come.

Published by Spink
 Expected early 2015
 Price : to be confirmed
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v17n46.html#article4
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: S3VERVS on January 03, 2015, 10:24:06 am
Maybe I advertise also here in my newest book: ”Rahan synty” (2014) (eng. The Birth of Coinage) which is the first book about greek & roman numismatics written in Finnish.

There is 174 pages, lot of colour pics in 1:1 ratio. I’m maybe the wrong person to review it. ☺

Here is some pics...

- Jani
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on January 03, 2015, 11:19:48 am
”Rahan synty” (2014) (eng. The Birth of Coinage)

Congratulations on your book! Unfortunately few of us will be able to read it, however.

Is Finnish always so compact? Do 800-page books contract to 600 pages in Finnish?
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: S3VERVS on January 03, 2015, 12:18:28 pm
Thank you Curtis. You probably won't miss anything because it is similar basic book like for example Howgego's Ancient History from Coins or Carradice & Price's Coinage in the Greek World.

Finnish language is quit different than English so it is hard to compare them.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Alisdair on January 14, 2015, 05:10:51 am
Finally, after many months' work, I'm pleased to announce the publication of 'Late Roman Bronze Coinage – An attribution guide for poorly preserved coins'. It is a translation of Guido Bruck's famous 'Die spätrömische Kupferprägung : ein Bestimmungsbuch für schlecht erhaltene Münzen,' originally published  in 1961.

Bruck based his work on the very important Vienna collection. The book assumes that the mint mark is too worn to be read, and provides the necessary iconographical breakdown to identify coins using other elements: the image, field marks, bust types, legend breaks, etc. Line drawings are used, as opposed to photographs to illustrate the various types. The idea being that a line drawing allows the user to focus on the details which are of significance.

I originally translated this for my own purposes, as it has proved to be a very useful resource, but other numismatists encouraged me to publish this in order to make it available to the community at large – the book has been out of print for more than 50 years and definitely deserves to be known.

Curtis Clay and Shawn Caza have been of huge help in reviewing the text and translation - many thanks to them!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and that it is useful to some of you.

More info can be found here:

http://www.lateromanbronzecoins.com/ (http://www.lateromanbronzecoins.com/)

Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Molinari on January 14, 2015, 04:10:40 pm
Congratulations, that's a very big accomplishment!

And the website is really top-notch, too.

Nick
Title: Re: RBW and Essays Russo at the ANS
Post by: Meepzorp on January 16, 2015, 05:58:21 am
The ANS is now offering the RBW collection book and Essays Russo:

http://numismatics.org/Store/RBWcollection
http://numismatics.org/Store/EssaysRusso

This may interest those US collectors who did not wish to have them shipped from Europe.

Hi folks,

Yesterday, I received in the mail my copies of RBW and Essays Russo. I ordered them form the ANS.

They are quite expensive, but I think they are worth every penny. I gave them a quick look.

It is amazing that RBW owned all of those RR coins.

I liked the photos at the beginning of Essays Russo. There is a nice photo of Roberto Russo and his 2 sons standing in front of what appears to be a (Italian?) villa. And there is a photo of Andrew with Roberto Russo and another man sitting on a sofa. The third man is smiling as if he just "cut the cheese". Andrew, is that what happened?

Offhand, I think Andrew's essay is 172 pages long. It is quite impressive.

Meepzorp
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Alisdair on January 19, 2015, 06:40:40 am
Congratulations, that's a very big accomplishment!

And the website is really top-notch, too.

Nick

Thanks for the encouragement, Nick (and those others who've PM'd me)! Just to let you guys know: the book is now available in both formats at the usual sales outlets (Amazon, B+N, etc.), as well as the Lulu and Createspace sites.

Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: altanbilgen on February 15, 2015, 07:46:40 am
First International Congress of the Anatolian Monetary History and Numismatics book was published.

More detail is here:

http://akmed.kaleicimuzesi.com/en/index.php?page=kitap&kid=91
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: SC on February 18, 2015, 05:03:56 am
I now have both a hard copy and a soft copy of Alisdair's new translation of Guido Bruck's Late Roman Bronze Coinage: An attribution guide for poorly preserved coins.

Caveat: I did assist Alisdair in a tiny way with this project so I am biased.

That said this is a great book available at an extremely low price.  It is simply a must for everyone who deals with late Roman bronze coins, especially ones that are poorly preserved or still uncleaned.  

The original has been out of print since 1961 and hard to find, especially for those outside Austria and Germany.   It is also hard to get.  I think I paid 90 Euro for my copy several years ago.  It is also in German, though it was still pupular with non-German speakers due to the fact it is primarily based on charts and line drawings.

I have filed my hard copy on my shelf next to my original Bruck.  I have taken the lighter and cheaper soft copy and now use it as a checklist of my collection.  I simply circle each example I have on the charts and lists.  Not every late Roman coin type, mint issue or Emperor issue is found in Bruck - if it wasn't in the Vienna collection in 1961 it is not there - but most are.  If I have one in my collection that is not it is easy to add it into the chart as an extra check.  So the small soft cover is what I now drag around to shows and dealers.

Shawn



Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on February 19, 2015, 07:31:26 pm

Curtis Clay and Shawn Caza have been of huge help in reviewing the text and translation - many thanks to them!

I am not a collector or student of late Roman bronze coinage, but have come to know the value of Bruck's book since taking up the position of Roman coin cataloguer for Harlan Berk in 1994. It's very useful to have most of the essential information about any late Roman type in one place: the size of the coins, AE II, III, or IV; what mints struck it, and for which emperors and Caesars; what obverse legends and bust types occur on those coins; any variations in the reverse legend, or in the rendering of the reverse type; field marks that occur on obverse or reverse.

Most of that same information can of course be found in RIC VII-IX, but there each type is treated mint by mint, in its chronological order within the mint's production, and with the obverse legends and bust types rendered by codes and so needing looking up. The information about each type is scattered throughout the books, and there is no quick, simple way to look it up. Bruck has done that laborious task of compilation for us.

Dependence on the Vienna collection alone is hardly a handicap, since Vienna has by far the best collection of late Roman bronze coins in existence, chiefly by virtue of having acquired Otto Voetter's immense private collection of them shortly before the First World War. There are very few types or varieties that Vienna is lacking.

The one thing missing from Bruck's book is a compilation of the forms of mintmark that occurred for each type at each mint. Bruck generally doesn't give mintmarks, because he assumes that they will have been worn away on the excavation coins that you may have before you to catalogue.

My own contribution to Alisdair's translation and re-edition of Bruck's work was virtually exclusively linguistic: I spent probably forty or fifty hours comparing Alisdair's English version with the German original, and suggesting a great many corrections and revisions, almost all of which Alisdair has taken over. I hope that the result, through Alisdair's efforts and my own, is a mainly accurate and idiomatic rendering of Bruck's German!

Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Tom Mullally on February 19, 2015, 11:36:49 pm
Where can one purchase the new copy of Bruck?  I have the German version, but I know several people who would like to have an English version.

Tom
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: SC on February 20, 2015, 04:00:25 am
Alisdair's site is:

www.lateromanbronzecoins.com

You can order from there though dealers interested in stocking a few copies should probably contact Alisdair directly.

Shawn
Title: Essays Mayhew: Money , Prices and Wages
Post by: Andrew McCabe on March 06, 2015, 09:14:36 am
Borrowed from my library, Essays Blackburn: Early Mediaeval Monetary History, Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn, eds Rory Naismith, Martin Allen, Elina Screen, Ashgate 2014, part of the Studies in Early Mediaeval Britain and Ireland series.

A substantial academic work, 650 pages, I borrowed it because Mark Blackburn was a rather famous and well respected numismatist, curator of the Fitzwilliam, before his untimely death in 2011. 30 essays on mediaeval coinage, of which seven essays on the use and circulation of currency are relevant to earlier periods as well. Lots of interesting stuff, and mostly dealing with coins in the context of hoards, archaeology, economic history etc. Likely of more interest to others than me.

Small coin was often the exception rather than the rule. There was no such thing in medieval England, for instance, suggesting that many transactions were barter-based. Small coin only appears in large quantities at the time of the Industrial Revolution, when the old village economy was breaking down. There are several hoard finds from Judea which suggest that people used the small coins to accumulate the money for the Temple tax, but how much they were used otherwise is unclear as always.

It's odd to start a new book announcement with quotes from other threads, but in this case, Essays Blackburn (very recently published) was also on the subject of money use in medieval times, and Robert's mention of money use in in medieval England recently shows it's a topic of current interest but perhaps without a great deal of reference material. So, two major volumes on money in medieval Europe is quite something. Being lazy, I'll just post the contents list of Essays Mayhew rather than commenting further. I should get around to doing the same thing for Essays Blackburn in time.
Title: Holland, Harris and Beard: an early Christmas
Post by: Andrew McCabe on September 02, 2015, 10:09:51 am
There's a rush of popular books on Roman history for Christmas. I just ordered (for myself)

- Tom Holland, Dynasty, The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (covers the Julio Claudians)
- Robert Harris, Dictator (Cicero in the 40s BC, contra Caesar and then Antony)
- Mary Beard, SPQR A History of Ancient Rome

Holland's new book supposedly comes out tomorrow, but what prompted me to look for it was a nice shiny pile of them already on sale in Waterstone's, Piccadilly. Then I looked to see was it cheaper on Amazon (it was, by a lot) and was offered the Harris and Beard books to pre-order. All in hardback of course.
Title: Re: Holland, Harris and Beard: an early Christmas
Post by: David Atherton on September 02, 2015, 10:14:18 am
There's a rush of popular books on Roman history for Christmas. I just ordered (for myself)

- Tom Holland, Dynasty, The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (covers the Julio Claudians)
- Robert Harris, Dictator (Cicero in the 40s BC, contra Caesar and then Antony)
- Mary Beard, SPQR A History of Ancient Rome

Holland's new book supposedly comes out tomorrow, but what prompted me to look for it was a nice shiny pile of them already on sale in Waterstone's, Piccadilly. Then I looked to see was it cheaper on Amazon (it was, by a lot) and was offered the Harris and Beard books to pre-order.

These are all on my reading list too. In particular, I am looking forward to Beard's tome on the history of Rome. I wonder what her sceptical take on it will be?
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: SC on September 03, 2015, 03:11:12 pm
I understand that Dictator is the long awaited third part of Harris' Cicero trilogy that started in Imperium and continued in Lustrum.  I am going to have to back and re-read the other two volumes.  As I recall it was a fun and fascinating, though not uncontroversial portrayal of Cicero.

Shawn
Title: RBW Collection Book and Essays Russo
Post by: Andrew McCabe on September 18, 2015, 05:10:51 am
Some of you will have downloaded my paper on Roman Republican bronzes from Academia over the last few days. But it's always nicer to hold and read a book in its hardbound paper version.

I noticed in the back of the latest NAC sale catalog two new flyers for Essays Russo (wherein my lengthy paper was published) and for the RBW collection book. I show both flyers below (without the sales blurb) taken from a screenshot of the NAC auction pdf. I noticed that NAC has adjusted the pricing to reflect the fall in the euro and the relative strength of the pound and dollar - and is offering either of the books post-paid anywhere in the world for 120 euros (£88, $137). That compares extremely favourably with Fides (Essays Witschonke) which the ANS is offering at $275 or $190 for members plus shipping whereas Essays Russo and RBW include shipping. So if you've hesitated, this may be a good time to get them.

Some nice photos below.
Title: SPQR by Mary Beard
Post by: Andrew McCabe on October 21, 2015, 06:08:05 pm
I've been browsing my copy of the new book by Mary Beard, SPQR. It's a history of Rome. 80% of its coverage is either Roman Republican history or general historical matters from the Republic onwards eg religion and constitutional matters. There's just a single chapter on the Roman Empire in fact specifically on the 14 emperors from Tiberius to Antoninus Pius where wisely the history of mankind ends. In format and contents it's truly innovative. It doesn't plod through all those events we've all read about countless times. Instead it assumes we've a basic knowledge of the course of history and presents us with a whole load of genuinely new insights that use new physical evidence eg inscriptions that are less well known. Like all good movies it does a flash-forward scene in the opening chapter, starting us near the end of the story in 63BC before becoming somewhat chronological for a while and then finishing on a thematic note. I expect to greatly enjoy it.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Jay GT4 on October 21, 2015, 06:19:53 pm
Thanks for that Andrew.  I love Mary Beard's work.  Will pick this book up.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: David Atherton on October 21, 2015, 09:32:26 pm
I've been following Beards' progress on this book for most of the year via her blog A Don's Life. Glad to hear it's met your critical approval Andrew. I'll pick up a copy in the next week or two.

Also, she was recently awarded a Leverhulme grant for a research project titled 'The Twelve Caesars'. Hmmmm ...
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: PtolemAE on October 22, 2015, 02:09:13 am
Please use this topic to announce the publication of new numismatic, antiquity, and history books, and/or provide comments or reviews on new books.  

Three new books purchased at the XV International Numismatic Congress in Taormina in Sept. 2015...

A number of publishers - Spink, ANS, CNG, Vatican, etc. had 'booths' with lots and lots of numismatic books at the conference.  I got these three despite the additional weight and bulk just to get them back home :)

1. Le Monete Della Zecca Di Gela - Coins of the Mint of Gela
by Giancarlo Alteri and Eleonora Giampiccolo
Published by Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Vatican publishing company)
hardbound with dust jacket, 265 pages, many color plates including terrific enlargements of important coins
On the last day this publisher had their booth set up at the conference they offered this beautiful volume (full of Gela's man-headed bull coins, of course) for only TEN EUROS (!) So it was impossible to not get one... :)

2. Monete Tolemaiche Oltre L'Egitto (transl. 'Ptolemaic Coins Outside Egypt')
by Alessandro Cavagna (professor at Univ. of Milano and expert on Ptolemaic coinage)
published by Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario
paper, 355 pages, with a huge bibliography and list of citations concerning the find locations and data
A thorough examination of finds of Ptolemaic coins in many places outside Egypt - from Italy to Turkey to the Balkans, etc.  A great read even though it's in Italian.  Nice coverage of the recent discoveries about Ptolemaic (and imitation) coins minted in, and found in, Sicily.  Hot off the presses.  This makes an excellent companion to the phenomenal book by Mariangela Puglisi on isolated coin finds on Sicily, which includes many of the Ptolemaic-minted and Syracusan-imitative-Ptolemaic coins.

3.  SNG Italia - Agrigento - Maria Caccamo Caltabiano (professor of ancient numismatics at University of Messina and also president of the INC and organizer of the congress)
Although the cover says 1999, this is one I'd never seen.  Covers coins in the museum at Agrigento (ancient Akragas) on the southern coast of Sicily, site of the major Greek/Roman temple site 'Valle de Templi' (Valley of the Temples). 
hardbound, 87 pages, large SNG format, glossy pages with coin information on with pairs of facing information/plate pages as in other SNG volumes.  The publisher had 5 copies at their booth and I'd planned to get one on the last day but decided it might be unwise to wait - which turned out to be the correction decision so I purchased one right then and there when I saw it.  They sold all five.

PtolemAE
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: mharlan on January 08, 2016, 11:12:49 am
In December Spink published my revised second edition of Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 63 BCE-49 BCE and they are planning on having copies at the New York Show.

The following are notes that I made on the changes to the first edition.

This second edition comes twenty years after the first giving me time to digest some of the criticisms of the first edition as well as of the second book Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 81 BCE-64 BCE published in 2012 and to rethink some of the interpretations and dating. Besides being more heavily illustrated, small changes or additions have been made to all the chapters, but significant changes have been made to the following chapters listed as they appear in this edition:

Chapter 2 Lucius Scribonius Libo: I have a reassessment of the Puteal Scribonianum using information on the Altar of Veius which was called to my attention by a reader, Claudio Scaetta from Rome, Italy.

Chapter 5 Marcus Aemilius Lepidus: I have a much fuller discussion of his two S•C coins and this has led to a re-dating of those two coins.

Chapter 12 Gaius Memmius: The identity of Gaius Memmius the imperator of the coin’s inscription is discussed in light of an inscription unknown to me at the time of the first edition.

Chapter 14 Marcus Plaetorius Cestianus: I had dated his seven coins to 68/7 in Roman Republian Moneyers and Their Coins 81 BCE- 64 BCE, but have now redated his five non-curule aedile S•C coins to 57 and added a revision of that portion of his chapter.

Chapter 19 Publius Licinius Crassus: I have added a much fuller discussion of his reverse design.

Chapter 20 Gaius Considius Nonianus: This moneyer was dated to 57 in the first edition. I have re-dated him to 55 and associated him with Crassus’ consulship.

Chapter 22 Publius Fonteius Capito: I have made a reassessment of the moneyer’s identity.

Chapter 23 Quintus Cassius Longinus: I have reconsidered the identification of the obverse head on one of the types Cassius minted.

Chapter 25 Marcus Valerius Messala: I have made a major reassessment of the interpretation of the reverse design.

Chapter 26 Quintus Pomponius Musa: I have redated his coins to ca. 52 and added a revision of his chapter from Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 81 BCE- 64 BCE.

Chapter 30 Manius Acilius Glabrio: I have added a discussion on Caesar’s elephant coin.

Chapter 32 Quintus Sicinius: I have expanded the information on his joint issue with Coponius.

I have also added the Crawford numbers for the coins. They are now at the beginning of each chapter and appear elsewhere in the text in parentheses and are prefixed with RRC.



Title: Balance Weights in the Aegean World. Classical and Hellenistic Periods
Post by: altanbilgen on February 04, 2016, 11:10:14 pm
Hi Everyone,

I want to announce the new book by Professor Oguz Tekin "Balance Weights in the Aegean World. Classical and Hellenistic Periods"

Historically, balance weights are as old as the balances themselves. Actually, balance and weight examples of Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Hittite civilisations are known from wall paintings, reliefs, papyri and collections. However, the scope of this book is the balance weights produced and used in the Aegean world during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Balance weights were among the instruments of public sphere (instrumenta publica) of antiquity and they constitute an important group of antiquities worth studying for their unit marks, symbols, depictions, inscriptions and ornaments. However, balance weights have been among the most neglected artefacts within archaeological research. Certainly, this work at handbook level should not be expected to fill the gap entirely, but rather call attention to this field. The examples were chosen from the city-states in the Aegean world and cover only those which bear ethnic or symbol (parasemon).

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

    Scope, material, and sources
    History of research in the light of basic publications

1. AN OVERVIEW OF WEIGHTS

    Form, material, and manufacture
    Symbols (parasema) and other depictions
    Denominations
    Ethnic
    State guarantee (Demosion)

2. WEIGHT SYSTEMS, STANDARDS AND SOLON’S REFORM

    Weight systems
    Standards and changes in the standards
    Solon’s reform

3. MARKET PLACES AND MARKET CONTROLLERS

    Agoras and their functions
    Magistrates in charge of the agora and the weights

4. CITIES AND THEIR WEIGHTS

    Athens
    Corinth
    Olympia
    Olynthos
    Thasos
    Maroneia
    Ainos
    Lysimachia
    Bisanthe
    Byzantion
    Kalchedon
    Kyzikos
    Lampsakos
    Abydos
    Ilion
    Tenedos
    Gentinos
    Alexandria Troas
    Skepsis
    Myrina
    Kyme
    Smyrna
    Chios
    Kolophon
    Ephesos
    Priene
    Miletos
    Alabanda
    Herakleia under Latmos
    Rhodos

GENERAL EVALUATION
APPENDICES

    Appendix 1: Balances, steelyards and steelyard weights
    Appendix 2: Civic weights under the Roman Empire

ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
IMAGE SOURCES
TECHNICAL ABBREVIATIONS
GLOSSARY
PLATES

Where to buy,
https://www.zerobooksonline.com/eng/product_details.asp?cat=1&subcat=10&product=17491

Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: tetsubu on June 04, 2017, 03:41:39 pm
Recently, a new book, connected with Roman Numismatics, was published on Amazon: “Coinage of Roman Empresses, Volume I, Antonia Minor – Didia Clara, 41 – 193 AD”. This is the catalogue, which describes 295 denarii, struck in the name of Roman empresses. Each denarius is supplemented with a photo. The denarii are divided according to the reverse type, and the frequency of these denarii is given.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1547152419/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496593325&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Coinage+of+Roman+Empresses
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Joss on October 17, 2018, 07:15:31 am
Next tome of the HGC series by Oliver Hoover, this time on Italy.  :)
https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=368948
Title: RIC II (Part 3): NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Anaximander on October 01, 2019, 03:27:49 pm
The Royal Numismatic Society has brought to our attention that a new edition of RIC II (Part 3), is available for pre-order at Spink.  

The notice can be found on the RNS site (Publications):  https://numismatics.org.uk/society-publications-2/ (https://numismatics.org.uk/society-publications-2/).

I have the second revised edition of Volume II (Part 1).  I am unclear on the availability of Part 2. Perhaps Part 3 was ready before Part 2.  Stranger things than that have happened...

Anaximander.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on October 01, 2019, 04:54:01 pm
Last I heard, over five years ago, B. Woytek was working on Nerva and Trajan, Richard Abdy on Hadrian, and all three emperors were to be treated in a single new volume, RIC revised II.2.

Apparently it was decided that the planned single volume should be split into two. Woytek's new RIC II.2 on Nerva and Trajan has certainly not yet appeared.
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Anaximander on January 12, 2020, 07:25:34 am
I'm not seeing the new RIC II edition at my local bookseller (nor will I). I had expected a bit more of a groundswell of news and offers, but am not hearing or seeing anything.  My usual numismatic booksellers in the U.S. do not seem to be on the front line of this one.  Ordering from the UK is a tad annoying, as I have paid dearly for shipments (GBP 25 in one instance, and two ill-packaged book shipments badly damaged).  Perhaps copies will appear in the Forum bookshop!

Another desired pick-up for 2020 will be the book on Bactrian coinage, announced by the ANS for publication this year, along with several others:

Royal Coinage in Hellenistic Bactria, by Simon Glenn.
The Tiflis Dirhams of Mongke Khan, by Kirk Bennett.
Old Regime France and its Jetons, by Jim McClellan.

Anaximander
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: leseullunique on June 10, 2020, 05:30:25 pm
Dear friends, it's time for me to inform you about my first book, freshly arrived

You can find it near Paul Francis Jacquier on ma-shops or directly near the editor (CEN) on this link

"Le monnayage impérial de Gordien III (238-244 après J.C.)

794 references, 714 illustrations, 162 pages with all types and variant I knew in november 2019

Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on June 10, 2020, 10:35:26 pm
Congratulations!

Is there anywhere we can see a few sample pages of your text?
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: leseullunique on June 11, 2020, 04:29:07 pm
Congratulations!

Is there anywhere we can see a few sample pages of your text?

Thank you Curtis,

Here are some pages (sestertius, silverquinarius and bronze medallions)
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: SC on June 11, 2020, 06:34:12 pm
Magnifique!  Even as someone not focussed in this area I need to put this on my shopping list.

SC

PS Is Georges Depeyrot still active at CERN?
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: curtislclay on June 11, 2020, 07:20:58 pm
Briac,

Thanks for showing the three sample pages!

Does your book also include a diagram of Gordian's coin issues, that is what types made up each issue and what the order and date of the issues was?
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: leseullunique on June 12, 2020, 01:44:41 am
Briac,

Thanks for showing the three sample pages!

Does your book also include a diagram of Gordian's coin issues, that is what types made up each issue and what the order and date of the issues was?

As you can see in the quinarius page, in the beginning of each issue are the estimed dates but I didn't made the diagram.

to Otlichnik, I will ask and provide you answer ;)
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Joe Sermarini on June 12, 2020, 09:39:57 am
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/NumisWiki/view.asp?key=Michaux
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Altamura on June 12, 2020, 12:52:21 pm
… PS Is Georges Depeyrot still active at CERN? ...
He seems to be retired from CNRS: https://georgesdepeyrot.academia.edu/cv

(CERN is science too, but nuclear physics  :))

Regards

Altamura
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: leseullunique on June 12, 2020, 04:31:42 pm
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/NumisWiki/view.asp?key=Michaux

Thank you so much for that wonderfull publicity Mr Sermarini
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Joe Sermarini on June 12, 2020, 06:58:26 pm
Please call me Joe. 
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: SC on June 13, 2020, 08:57:58 am
Yes, my spell check tries to change CRNS to cans to cars or cern....

SC
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: SC on September 27, 2020, 12:04:31 pm
I recently found a new book on the Tang Dynasty cash coin type Qian Yuan Zhong Bao by Matthew H. Dick.  It was just published and is available via amazon.  I have read through it and provide below the review I left on amazon:


Matthew H. Dick’s “Tang Dynasty Qian Yuan Zhong Bao Cash Coins: Guide to Common Plain-Reverse Varieties” (2020) is an excellent and important new addition to Asian Numismatics.  Although the Qian Yuan Zhong Bao (QYZB) type is the second most common coinage of the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD), this is the first serious study of this type in English.  The study lists 457 varieties, broken down into 26 groupings, and illustrates them with 461 original rubbings.  While it only covers the plain-reverse varieties, it will hopefully be followed one day by a second volume covering the marked-reverse varieties.  The structure of the book and the analytical tools provided allow for a relatively quick and simple identification of QYZB coins.    The book discusses the history, dating and manufacture of these coins, and the provides a classification system and the means for identifying and attributing QYZB coins.  The book also provides a valuable Quick ID chart that ranks to 20 most common varieties in order – the first ten varieties comprise 60% of the coinage, all 20 comprise 70%.  This chart saves a great deal of time as most QYZBs can be found on it.  If a coin is not found on the chart, then it is likely that the chart will have at least pointed out the grouping that the coin belongs to.  Many other guides to cash coins would benefit from this simple tool.

In addition, Dick’s book has value well beyond the study of the QYZB coinage.  He discusses the importance of field sizes – a very important but almost entirely neglected aspect of all cash coinage. The book provides a simple technique for measuring, recording and comparing field sizes.  Furthermore, this books sets the standard for the identification and study of character varieties.  Dick provides clear illustrations outlining the four characters of the QYZB coins and breaking each down into its key parts (radicals and individual parts of radicals).  The book then provides clear illustrations of the variations of each part.  For example, showing the reader Zhong heads that are triangular vs. curved vs. irregular vs. straight vs. degenerate.  Then, when the reader comes across a term in the classification and identification section – the main body of the text – they can easily turn to this illustration of variations to see exactly what detail to look for.  Studies of any cash coin type or series would benefit greatly from following Dick’s methodology.

SC
Title: Re: NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS
Post by: Stkp on September 28, 2020, 12:12:19 am
That is a great review, Shawn. And the book is modestly priced. I'm tempted to order it, even though I don't (yet) have any Qian Yuan Zhong Bao coins. Stkp