Studies in Greek numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price

Richard Ashton, Silvia Hurter, Studies in Greek numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price, in association with Georges Le Rider and Roger Bland, Spink, London 1998, pp. XV, 400 with portrait on frontispiece, richly illustrated, 79 plates, 28 cm, full cloth binding ed. with gold titles on the spine, front cover and dust jacket.

The substantial volume presents 42 writings in honor of Martin Jessop Price, one of the most authoritative scholars of Greek coins, member of the Royal Numismatics Society and of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum project of the British Academy. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from the coins of Phrygia, Pergamon, Samos, Athens, Syracuse, Lydia, Cyprus, the Black Sea and Poseidonia-Paestum, to historical, economic, iconographic, political and social insights. Notable authors include: John Barron, Andrew Burnett, Nicholas Hardwick, Ann Johnston, Georges Le Rider, John Morcom, NK Rutter, Jeffrey Spier and Ute Wartenberg. The text also includes an accurate bibliography by Martin Jessop Price.

In excellent condition.