The Athenian decadrachm / Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert.

Author
Fischer-Bossert, Wolfgang [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : American Numismatic Society, 2008.
Description
x, 94 pages, 41 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Series
    • Numismatic notes & monographs ; no. 168. [More in this series]
    • Numismatic notes and monographs, 0078-2718 ; 168
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-94).
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Description
    • The types
    • Internal arrangement of the series
    • Fabric
    • Context
    • Provenances and hoards
    • Dating the series
    • The purpose of the issue
    • Catalogue
    • Known specimens
    • Old specimens without known afterlife
    • Lead trial pieces
    • Forgeries
    • Ancient forgeries
    • Modern fakes and suspected specimens
    • Becker's fake, before 2 October 1827
    • The second Strangford coin, before 1828
    • "Hoffmann," before 1866, or even before 1857
    • "de Luynes," before 1891
    • "Alexandria," before 1900
    • Christodoulou's fake, at least partly before 1903
    • "Schulman," before 1922
    • "Ars Classica," before 1928
    • "Burgon," before 1970
    • "Phoenician style," before 1985
    • Origin unknown, before 1992
    • Tourist fakes from Turkey and Syria, before 1993
    • From Syria, 2008
    • Still more fakes
    • Appendix: The acquisition of the Prokesch-Osten specimen
    • Concordances.
    ISBN
    • 9780897223096 ((hc))
    • 0897223098
    LCCN
    2008045450
    OCLC
    276274554
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