Byzantine Coinage

Dumbarton Oaks
Philip Grierson
ISBN: 0884022749
price: $15.00   paperback

This new edition of the introductory booklet on Byzantine coinage, first published in 1982, has been updated and expanded to include a description of the formation of the coin collection at Dumbarton Oaks and is published to mark the completion of the five-volume Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection.
Topics covered include phases of the coinage, gold coinage, silver coinage, copper coinage, types and inscriptions, ruler representations, religious types, and inscriptions. Tables of values at different periods in the empire's history, a list of Byzantine emperors, and a glossary are also provided.