Coins, Currency & Medals

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Money has always been a subject of interest, today more so than ever. For centuries it has performed a key role around the globe - most obviously in trade and the economy, but also in the development of national identities, religions and the spread of...

The narrative of Roman history has been largely shaped by the surviving literary sources, augmented in places by material culture. The numerous surviving coins can, however, provide new information on the distant past. This accessible but authoritative...

The book aims to introduce pre-Roman British coins to a new audience, by making the subject more accessible, providing a collector lens, and demonstrating the beauty of these coins through images.About the AuthorTim Wright is a collector of ancient coins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780794849047Author Whitman PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Whitman PublishingPublisher Whitman Publishing

The catalogue is part of the series of volumes of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum project, which under the auspices of the British Academy aims to publish major collections of Greek coins. Each volume gives brief descriptions of each coin, along with its...

Coins of England and the United Kingdom Pre-Decimal and Decimal volumes comprise the Standard Catalogue of British Coins. This 11th edition of the Decimal volume contains all coins minted during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, in addition to all coinage...

This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the Decimal coinage of King Charles III, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign, then into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780794850111Author Bill FivazPage Count 320Imprint Whitman PublishingPublisher Whitman PublishingWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 160mm * 25mm

Kansas had only a few years in which its bankers and merchants issued the now-obsolete notes that have become such popular--and rare--collector's items. This heavily illustrated history details Kansas paper bank notes and scrip through 1935. Like the...

A fully illustrated catalogue of over 1000 Greek coins in the collection of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, this publication offers within a single volume a remarkably full survey of the broad sweep of Greek coinage. The particularly rich...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780794849597Author Jeff GarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Whitman PublishingPublisher Whitman Publishing

This fully-illustrated catalogue publishes 1601 ancient Greek coins issued by cities stretching from the modern Crimea to the area of Aeolis on the west coast of modern Turkey. This is a most welcome addition to the SNG's cataloguing of the Ashmolean...

This catalogue completes the publication of the great eighteenth-century collection of William Hunter in Glasgow University, an important stage in the British SNG project. It illustrates the remaining 2581 Roman provincial coins produced in the East from...

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 charlatans. Its extraordinary story winds across seventy years and three continents, linking an almost...

This new volume in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles describes and illustrates the Scottish coins minted between 1603 and 1709 that are held in the National Museum of Scotland's collection. The Museum also holds an important collection of dies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700179566Author Daryoosh AbarzadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Mary Gillick, nee Tutin (1881-1965), is probably best remembered for the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that appeared on UK coins from the beginning of her reign until decimalisation in 1971. This book focuses on her career as a sculptor and medallist -...

Since the Greeks of Asia Minor invented coined money in the late seventh century BC, the emphasis throughout history has been to focus on minting higher value pieces, with the production of small denomination coins used by 'the poorer sorts' often being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578810652Author Ira GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Mel WacksPublisher Mel WacksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440248993Author David C. HarperFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Krause PublicationsPublisher F&W Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992826512Author Roy DuttonFormat HardbackImprint Infodial LtdPublisher Infodial LtdWeight(grams) 1075g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780794849160Author Q David BowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Whitman PublishingPublisher Whitman PublishingWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897223652Author Kirk BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint American Numismatic Society,U.S.Publisher American Numismatic Society,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780794827847Author Whitman PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 2Imprint Whitman PublishingPublisher Whitman PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 282mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995089907Author Elias AhonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Elias AhonenPublisher Elias AhonenWeight(grams) 513g

This volume was prompted by the recent discovery in Britain of two large coin hoards dating from the first decade of the fourth century AD – Wold Newton and Rauceby. Coins of this early Tetrarchic period are relatively uncommon finds in Britain and...

Deniers and ducats, groats and guilders, crowns and cruzados: this fun, engaging and beautifully illustrated little book explores the role of money and medals in William Shakespeare's world and work. "A fascinating account of Shakespeare's cosmopolitan...

60 years of the UK's National Health Service and the NHS is treating more people than ever and the population is living longer, healthier lives. That's the good news. But what about the bad news? Most histories of medicine concentrate on 'who invented...

The Watlington Hoard was discovered in southern Oxfordshire in 2015 by a metal-detectorist, and acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2017. A nationally-important find of coinage and metalwork, and the first major Viking-Age hoard from the county,...

This latest volume from the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles publishes the first portion of the Lord Stewartby Collection, the most important assemblage of Scottish coins ever put together by a private individual. The collection has a depth and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907605980Author David R SearFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Spink & Son LtdPublisher Spink & Son Ltd

This book is not a standard coin catalogue, but it focuses on quantities and percentages of the mysterious 5950 sphere images on Roman (76BC-AD 476) coin reverses, and a few Greek coins. This research identifies which Emperors, Deities and...

As the name indicates, KOINON is a journal that encourages contributions to the study of classical numismatics from a wide variety of perspectives. The journal includes papers concerning iconography, die studies, provenance research, forgery analysis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193829103Author I J ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Iirns Publications Pvt. Ltd.Publisher Iirns Publications Pvt. Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897223638Author Lucia CarboneFormat HardbackPage Count 415Imprint American Numismatic Society,U.S.Publisher American Numismatic Society,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593328606Author Ken PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755215942Author Wybrand Op den VeldeFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingDimensions(mm) 297mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780794843182Author Bill FivazPage Count 448Imprint Whitman PublishingPublisher Whitman PublishingWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 175mm * 36mm