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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
Gelaby 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