GREEK COIN ART

Foreword by Robert Hoge

One day, while attending a coin show in New York City, a dealer recognized me and asked me what I collected. I told him I did not know, but those marvelous 2,000-year-old pieces of silver were masterpieces of ancient sculpture. “Ah!” he said, “Art on coins!” I ended up learning about the fascinating world of ancient Greece, their endemic warfare, their philosophy, and their life.

The book shows many of the commonest available Greek coins as full page color pictures. The layout is mainly a full page coin photograph on one page with the history behind it on the page opposite. It starts with the “grand tour” (the way collectors classify the different parts of the ancient Greek world), denominations, and pay in ancient times.

COMMENTS  BY  ROBERT  HOGE, Curator Emeritus, American Numismatic Society

“… A charming tour de force succinctly exploring the entire field of ancient Greek Numismatics. The book contains a glossary of terms and a complete index and bibliography — somewhat unusual in such a handsome volume that many would regard as a kind of “coffee-table book”. I firmly believe that anyone having a chance to pass time with this book will come away feeling amply rewarded”.

Chapters cover: Non-Greek  Europe, Southern Italy and Sicily, Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly Central Greece and the Peloponnese, Crete, Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), Cyprus and the Levant, The Achaemenids (ancient Persia), The Seleukid Empire, The Parthian Empire, Greco-Baktrians, Indo-Greeks, Ptolemaic Egypt

The book finishes with a glossary, including a classification of divine beings, a list of gods, allegories and their attributes, mythical animals, weight standards, ancient Greek tribes, and ways to collect Greek coins.

• 372 pages

• 148 full-page coin photographs

• Hardback 8.5 by 11 inches

• Copyright 2025

• This book is still in production in 2025 and the price is not yet determined.