foreign publications
Newell Edward T. - Royal Greek Portrait Coins, Racine 1937
127 pages, hardcover, format approx. A5, beautifully preserved. A lavishly illustrated (over 220 coin images) guide to the so-called portrait coins of the ancient kingdoms, including historical references to their monetary system, mints and rulers. Includes portrait coins of, among others. Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Lysimachus, Seleukos I and his successors, Ptolemy I, Demetrius I Poliorketes, the last Macedonian kings, Philetros, the Kingdoms of Bithynia, Pontus, Cappadocia, Parthia, Armenia, the Great Kingdoms of Bactria and India, Persia, Elamais, Messena (Characene), the Late Kings of Egypt, Numidia and Mauritania. The book includes a map of Hellenistic kingdoms and an index of described kingdoms and rulers.
