Coins, Banknotes, Medals, Seals (Numismatics)

The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English. The...

‘Cosy and classy in equal measure’ JANICE HALLETT‘Beautifully unguessable ... bursting with life ... brilliant!’ ALEX HAYThe Maid meets Only Murder...

The first two chapters provide a resume of how the coinage of the central Roman state changed, developed and stumbled. In Britain most coins in mus...

Most transport tokens in Scotland were introduced in the middle of the nineteenth century, but until recent years they did not attract many collect...

Originally written in 1905, this volume examines the coins of Japan, especially appealing because of a subtle and impersonal charm which pervades t...

That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, a...

The Thirty Pieces of Silver: Coin Relics in Medieval and Modern Europe discusses many interconnected topics relating to the most perfidious monetar...

When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his ...

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to...

How did the Anglo-Saxons obtain the treasure that tempted Vikings to raid England frequently in the ninth century and again between 980 and 1018? A...

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to...

Coin collectors and enthusiasts have long been familiar with the story of two boys who unearthed a fortune in gold coins while playing in a Baltimo...

The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals r...

The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals r...

First Published in 2001. Coinage and History of the Roman Empire is an invaluable study in the fields of Roman history and numismatics. Current sch...

Top 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cunei...

One coin, for years the only known 1933 twenty-dollar Double Eagle in the world, has inspired the passions of thieves and collectors, lawyers and c...

More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volu...

Roman coins often shed light on Roman public life and society through the legends, portraits, and images they bear. The papers collected in this vo...

The invention of coinage was a conceptual revolution, not a technological one. Only with the invention of Greek coinage does the concept "money" cl...