GREEK. Greek and Roman coinage references. (1) Coins of the Macedonians. Martin Price (British Museum, 1974). Hardcover, a useful British Museum overview for Macedonian royal coinage, written for practical identification and historical context. (2) An Outline of Ancient Greek Coins. Zander H. Klawans (Whitman, 1959, first edition). Hardcover, 208 pages, a popular, straight forward introduction for collectors that remains handy for basics, types, and getting oriented quickly. (3) An Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards (IGCH). Margaret Thompson, Otto M?rkholm, and Colin M. Kraay (American Numismatic Society, 1973). Paperback, 408 pages with three fold-out maps, the standard inventory listing 2,387 hoards with findspot, burial date, contents, disposition, and references, with concordance and strong indexes. (4) The Syrian Tetradrachms of Caracalla and Macrinus. Alfred R. Bellinger (Sanford J. Durst reprint, 1981, of the 1940 ANS original). Hardcover, 166 pages with 26 plates, a specialised corpus for these Syrian tetradrachm issues with extensive plate material for attribution. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, covers are good for the age and years of use, 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. (4 books)

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