ROMAN. The Later Republican Cistophori. William E. Metcalf (Numismatic Notes and Monographs 170, New York, American Numismatic Society, 2017). A specialist study of the cistophoric coinage bearing the names of Roman magistrates, most often proconsuls, struck in 58 to 48 B.C., together with related issues that depart from the older Attalid pattern, and placing the series within its wider context from its Hellenistic origins through its continuation under Roman rule after 133 B.C. The volume catalogues and illustrates approximately 523 cistophori and fractions from Ephesus, Pergamum, Tralles, and Apameia, including the ATPA series, with detailed discussion of the governors and Greek signers, and useful appendices on weight and fineness, names and orthography, and hoards, followed by full indices and plates. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; overall the book is in VG condition. 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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