Meadows A. & R.W.C. Kan. History Re-Stored: Ancient Greek Coins from the Zhuyuetang Collection. (Hong Kong, 2004).
Meadows, Andrew and Richard W.C. Kan. History Re-Stored: Ancient Greek Coins from the Zhuyuetang Collection. 2004. Hardbound with dust jacket and slip cover. 117 pp., illustrated throughout with color photographs and maps. Eighteen tightly linked chapters bridging coinage and history, illustrated with 126 coins from the Zhuyuetang Collection as exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of History.
Andrew Meadows (Curator of Greek Coins at the British Museum) and Richard W.C. Kan have written a thought-provoking text treating highlights of Greek coinage from its origin through to the end of the Hellenistic era. The 18 individual chapters place Greek coinage in its cultural and historic setting, with special attention to subjects such as the nature of coinage, early electrum, Athens, the Olympic games, monetary alliance, Northern Greece, Alexander the Great, royal portraiture, the coming of Rome, and other topics. The readable text presents up to date scholarship which is accessible to the layman while illuminating to the expert. Each chapter is accompanied by suggestions for further reading.
The book is illustrated by 126 coins, many of great rarity and beauty, from the Zhuyuetang Collection. Included are milestones of Greek coinage such as an electrum stater of Phanes, a dekadrachm of Athens, a dekadrachm of Alexander the Great as well as an example of the enigmatic Poros Dekadrachm, the first scholarly publication of the recently discovered silver drachm of Philip VI (Andriscus) of Macedon, a selection of important large silver coins from Northern Greece, a gold stater of Flamininus, and so on. Each coin is illustrated in actual size and color enlargements.