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.Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), Sixth to First Centuries BC. It is the 6th book in the Greek Coin series by Oliver Hoover. This volume contains rare coins from obscure islands as well as most of the major island mints like Thasos, Aegina, Rhodes, Kos, and Samos. The volume is arranged geographically from the Adriatic Sea eastward to the Carpathian Sea, from north to south, and with each island entry within each sea in alphabetical order. The coinage within each city is arranged chronologically, beginning with the Archaic issues and continuing through the later civic issues in the name of Alexander.