ROMAN. Greek Imperial Countermarks: Studies in the Provincial Coinage of the Roman Empire. C. J. Howgego. London, Spink for the Royal Numismatic Society (Special Publication No. 17), reprint edition 2005 (first published 1985). Paperback, 400+ pp. ISBN 0-901405-23-X. The standard modern work on countermarks on Roman provincial coinage, explaining their forms, authorities, dating, and purpose, and using them as primary evidence for military finance, circulation, metrology, and wider economic history in the eastern provinces. Includes five analytical chapters, then a substantial catalogue with a key to types and more than 850 countermark groups recorded from nearly 10,000 coins, supported by abbreviations, geographical and general indexes, and maps and plates. As new.

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