Foreign Publications
Wayne G. Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting VI: Non-Classical Cultures, Iola 1999, ISBN 0873417534
197 pages, B5 format, hardcover with dust jacket. The final, sixth volume of *Ancient Coin Collecting* covers so-called non-classical cultures. It includes the coinage of the Celts, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals, the Kingdoms of Thrace, Armenia, Persia, the Parthians, the Indo-Parthians, the early kingdoms of Central Asia, the Sassanids, the Huns, China, the Elymians, the Charakene, the Kingdom of Judea (including coins of the Hasmonean Dynasty, the Herodian Dynasty, Roman procurators, the Jewish Wars, *Judea Capta*, the Bar Kokhba revolt, and Jewish cities), the Arabian Peninsula, Islamic dynasties, Asia Minor, the Mongols, Aksum, and Pharaonic Egypt. A separate section showcases the masterpieces of numismatics from that era. Each of the sections described includes references to further reading on the given topic. The book contains, among other things, dozens of photographs of the coins described, maps of the cultures in question, tables of alphabets to facilitate coin identification, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. This book intuitively presents approximately 1,500 years of numismatic history from cultures other than the Greek and Roman ones.
