Author Description

This large volume comprises forty-two essays written in honour of the late Martin Jessop Price, a leading authority on Greek coinage, and an active member of the Royal Numismatic Society and the British Academy's Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum project. The essays cover a broad range of subjects and issues including coins from Phrygia, Pergamon, Samos, Athens, Syracuse, Lydia, Cyprus, the Black Sea and Poseidonia-Paestum, addressing questions of history, iconography, subject matter, links to political and social change and economic values. Contributors include: John Barron, Andrew Burnett, Nicholas Hardwick, Ann Johnston, Georges Le Rider, John Morcom, N K Rutter, Jeffrey Spier and Ute Wartenberg. Includes a bibliography of Martin Jessop Price. Essays in English and French.