Coins, Banknotes, Medals, Seals (Numismatics)

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

The humble banknote has been around in one form or another for over 300 years, and no one would deny that during that time they have been an indisp...

*A Financial Times Book of the Year of 2024*The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's mos...

Harold B. Mattingly has always helped direct numismatic and epigraphical studies, and his work has often sought and defended unorthodox positions i...

Through the ages, coins have been more than a common standard or a means of exchange between peoples for goods and services. The development of co...

Includes 25 figures, 8 plates and 11 tables, some in colour. This volume presents the numismatic results from nineteen seasons of fieldwork by the ...

The publication of the great eighteenth-century collection of William Hunter in Glasgow University marks an important stage in the British SNG proj...

The rich collections of the Hermitage Museum include a remarkable series of Norman and later medieval British coins. Unlike the Hermitage's Anglo-S...

This catalogue completes the publication of the great eighteenth-century collection of William Hunter in Glasgow University, an important stage in ...

This full illustrated catalogue will become the standard reference work for Scottish coins of the middle and later sixteenth century, which include...

This volume contains nearly 1600 coins of the 9th-16th centuries from North Africa to Great Syria. The collections included in the catalogue are th...

Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial ex...

How do regions form and evolve? What are the human and geographical factors which help to unify a region, and what are the political considerations...

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...

Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of Augustus’s wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in other visual...

Anglo-Saxon Coins (1961) is an illustrated analysis of the coinage of the Anglo-Saxon era. It examines the coins of the end of Roman Britain and th...

The papers published in this book were delivered at two conferences held in conjunction with the exhibition, " The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medal...

The original edition of this volume was published by Seaby thirty-six years ago and has been through three revisions (1970, 1974, and 1981). The on...

Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of Augustus’s wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in other visual...

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages offers an extensive overview of approaches to and the potential of sigillography, as well as introducing...