- Hardcover: 204 pages
- Publisher: KP Books (1 Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0873417534
- ISBN-13: 978-0873417532
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.1 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,203,954 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As important as the Greek and Roman cultures were in forming the basis for modern society, we are just as fascinated by the mysterious and romantic non-classical players on the stage of history. Darius of Persia; Boudicca, warrior queen of the Iceni; Charlemagne; Saladin; and countless others left their mark, and their coinage survives as a living testament to their greatness.
Collecting coins from these cultures is a field rich with rewards, and this final volume in the "Ancient Coin Collecting" series is your guidebook to exploration and success. Spanning 1,500 years o numismatic history, this user-friendly, intuitive guide sheds new light on coinage that has mistakenly been thought of as too complex. Find out for yourself just how understandable and collectible this coinage can be.
A must-have resource, this volume includes:
Hundreds of photos, including a gallery of non-classical coin masterpieces
Timelines and maps to provide essential historic perspective
Extensive bibliographies, glossary, index and aids to coin attribution
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
While a very cursory glance of this extremely large topic, it does give the reader a touchstone on which to begin a numismatic pursuit. There is no way a single book, let alone one a short as this, can begin to cover such this subject, this is a valuable reference for a beginner. Even though written for novices in this area, one will find yourself referring back to it frequently.
The book is broken down into disjointed segments that give brief overviews of the cultures, along with major rulers and examples or thier coinage. Most major cultures also have examples of the different denominations they produced. The bibliography is also listed for each culture, although some are so little studied that this amounts to one or two references. No attempt is made to list coins and values, but this is good since any attempt would be futile in a work of this size.
Overall, a nice intro book on an area where reference material is usually very scarce and very pricey.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I agree with Chris Freeman. If you come across the Guptas, the Huns, or the Lombards, you will find them here, Parthians and Sassanians too, but a glance at Celtic British coins shows the limitations.
Some of the designs are interestingly stylised, very striking and attractive. There is a special section of the book devoted to enlarged "Masterpieces", such as the one on the cover.
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Good overview and roadmap to collecting areas.
13 July 2000
Format:Hardcover
As the author states, this is not meant to be a comprehensive volume. The field of ancient coins from non-classical cultures is so wide, that I think it is wonderful that someone took the time to assemble an overview that helps the beginner to start recognizing types, and then points them in the right direction. This is especially useful in a field where references for very narrow segment of the coinage are hard to find, and most often very expensive. I myself have invested in a book or two that sounded as if it would carry my field of interest--only to leave me out in the cold, with a very empty wallet!
I only wish that Wayne Sayles could continue this series to cover coinage from India, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, and Asia as well. An excellent book for those new to the field, or looking to expand their ancient coin collecting interests outside the Classical World.
10 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Too broad of a spectrum
28 Jun 2000
Format:Hardcover
I have bought and read almost all of the books in this series and definitely this is the one that satisfied me the least. In trying to squeeze too many cultures living in too broad of a time frame in just one regular sized book, the reader is just confused on the relation between the choices of cultures displayed. Most of the individual sections are just too short to show the coinage and much less the history of these peoples. One should approach this book as a long, long magazine article that presents some non classical cultures and just that. It is not even a book, as the others in the series are, that entices you to look deeper into the bibliography and that at least gives you the 'big picture'. This book only succeeds in confusing and making the coinage of those already almost unknown cultures a little bit more obscure.
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