GREEK. Greek Coins: A History of Metallic Currency and Coinage Down to the Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms. (London, Methuen, 1960). Hardcover, 311 pages with 64 plates, in dust jacket. A classic narrative survey of Greek monetary history, tracing the development of metallic currency and coinage from the earliest issues through to the end of the Hellenistic kingdoms, written to explain how coinage evolved in response to commerce, warfare, state finance, and shifting political power across the Greek world. Particularly useful as a broad framework text, it ties types and series to historical context while the extensive plates provide solid comparative material for style, fabric, and major iconographic themes, making it a dependable companion to more specialised catalogues and a helpful reference for collectors who want the bigger story behind the coins. Paper cover with light wear and shelf dust, dust jacket with minor edge wear, original book cover is in great condition, overall VG from many years of use. From the personal reference library of David Allen, a well known numismatist, formed over more than 50 years and used as a long term reference for research, attribution, and catalogue work.

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