GREEK. Houghton, Arthur, and Catharine Lorber, with metrological tables by Brian Kritt. Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Catalogue, Part I, Seleucus I through Antiochus III, Volume I, Introduction, Maps, and Catalogue. New York: The American Numismatic Society, Lancaster and London: Classical Numismatic Group, 2002. Large 4to, teal cloth in pictorial dust jacket, 486 pp. The standard modern work for the early Seleucid series, setting out the method and mint structure, then cataloguing the coinage by reign and by mint, with short historical and iconographic notes followed by detailed listings of denominations, control systems and magistrate marks, metrology, and references to the key literature. With maps, a chronological table and a Seleucid succession stemma. Volume II with appendices and plates is not present. Choice copy, crisp and clean with a tight binding and unmarked interiors.

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