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    The Hellenistic World. Using coins as Sources. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015. XXXI,230p. Paperback. It is hard to think of a better guide to Hellenistic coinage on this scale. T. takes the reader from Alexander the Great to the second triumvirate, with a brief glance forward to reflections of Hellenistic coinage in the coinage of Parthians, Sasanians, and indeed modern Britain. At the same time he guides the reader through the globalization of coin types that Alexander’s empire brings, through the ways in which coins construct identities at the level of the city, the federation, the kingdom, and the whole Hellenistic world, through the patterns of coin issue and their implications for coin use and its economics, and into the ideological freight carried and its limits, as Rome reproduced existing types. The reader is brought up to date with the latest numismatic scholarship and made to see the arguments in action through the 255 coins that are illustrated. All this done with a light touch and a lively style that make this book quite a page-turner.' (ROBIN OSBORNE in Classics for All, 13.01.2016). (New)  (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9781107451759

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