Lot 3907

Description

Carradice, Ian., Coinage and Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires, (The Ninth Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History), BAR Series 343, Oxford, 1987, v + 167 pp., 15 plates. As new and now out of print.

The standard work by Ian Carradice and Christopher Tuplin, on the Regal coinage of the Persian Empire, which is used as the main reference on this series. Also the Athenian Coinage Decree by Harold B. Mattingly and D. Lewis. But more importantly, it is the only reference that to this date that has been published on probably the greatest of all ancient Greek coin hoards - The Decadrachm Hoard with general and specific papers on this hoard by Sallie Fried, Jon Kagan, Jeffrey Spier and M. Jessop Price. The book is most important and rarely available.