EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Oriental Coins and Their Values, Volume 2: The Ancient and Classical World, 600 B.C. to A.D. 650. Michael Mitchiner (Hawkins Publications, 1978, first edition). Hardcover, 760 pages, illustrated throughout. A massive and highly practical standard reference, ranging across an exceptionally broad span of eastern and related ancient coinages, with catalogue style coverage of fields seldom brought together in a single volume, including Hunnic and Scythian issues, Indo-Greek and Indo-Parthian, Persian and Sasanian, Arabian, Phoenician, Indian, and Chinese material, together with useful extension into adjacent areas such as Jewish and Roman provincial coinage where they intersect with the eastern world. An especially valuable working reference for identification, comparison, and broad numismatic research across multiple series. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; no dust jacket, 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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