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"Illegal Tender: Gold Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle", by David Tripp

Free Press ISBN 0-7432-4574-1

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(Ancient Coins in North American Collections, American Numismatic Society 2007)

"Coins of the Seleucid Empire in the Collection of Arthur Houghton, Part II," by Oliver D Hoover

After more than two decades of assiduous study and the collection of new material, the time has come for a sequel to Arthur Houghton's Coins of the Seleucid Empire in the Collection of Arthur Houghton (ACNAC 4). This new work publishes for the first time in one place all 900 coins and related objects in Houghton's New Series collection. The bulk of the material reflects new types, control variants, and historical-economic interpretations that have been discovered in the years since CSE was first published. Coins of the Seleucid Empire in the Collection of Arthur Houghton, Part II (ACNAC 9) follows the same easy-to-use organizational principles as Arthur Houghton and Catharine Lorber's Seleucid Coins, Part I, and includes brief historical introductions for each ruler, commentary on remarkable coins and new attributions, as well as type, ruler, and mint indices. The book is simultaneously an expansion of Houghton's 1983 catalogue and a foretaste of the long awaited second part of Seleucid Coins. 247p (Ancient Coins in North American Collections, American Numismatic Society 2007).
ISBN-13: 978-0-89722-299-0   ISBN-10: 0-89722-299-7

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"Agoranomia: Studies in Money and Exchange, Presented to John H. Kroll," Edited by Peter G. van Alfen

Offered to John H. Kroll on his retirement from the University of Texas at Austin this volume features essays on Greek coinage, exchange, and polis economies from the Archaic to Hellenistic periods. Included in the collection are studies that explore aspects of Homeric and Archaic exchange, the law of sale, and cavalry costs. Other studies examine the social, economic and historical contexts of coinages from Abdera, Athens, "Lete," Lydia, Mylasa, and Side, and present new interpretative approaches to "cooperative" coinage and those from archaeological sites. 290p, 14pls, illus. (American Numismatic Society 2006)

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Coinage of the Americas Conference 15 (1999)

"Money of the Caribbean", Edited by Richard G. Doty & John M. Kleeberg

Papers presented at the 1999 Coinage of the Americas Conference, (COAC) including studies of the Spanish mint at Santo Domingo, Bermuda hogge money, a palm-tree countermark attributed to Haiti, holey dollars of Prince Edward Island, Jewish merchant tokens from the Caribbean, the "key" countermark used in Cuba in the 19th century, and the 1897 Cuban souvenir dollar. 328p, illus. (American Numismatic Society 2006)

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Numismatic Notes and Monographs 167

"Medals Concerning John Law and the Mississippi System", by John W Adams
This book presents an up-to-date catalogue of the eighteenth-century medals, mostly satirical, between 1716 and 1720. Many of the illustrated specimans are by the German medalist Christian Wermut. 75p, illus. (American Numismatic Society 2005)
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"Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins: The Early Spanish-American Mints and their Coinages 1536-1773"
by Sewall Menzel
In the 1520s the Spanish crown began to realise through expanded explorations of the likes of Hernando Cortez and Francisco Pizarro that it was in charge of an enormous empire requiring extensive settlement and systems of control. Royal mints were founded to control, evaluate and tax gold and silver coming from the mines, as well as to produce the coins needed for everyday commercial transactions. For some 250 years the mints churned out millions ...
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"Copper Coinage of the State of New Jersey", by Damon G. Douglas, Edited by Gary A. Trudgen

List price: US$  45.00

When the American Revolutionary War ended in 1783, there was no central mint to supply the newly independent states with coinage. In fact, nearly a decade passed before Congress formed the US Mint in 1792 and attempted to unify the growing nation's coin types. In the meantime, some of the states produced their own coins, under what were often primitive and difficult circumstances. Mute witnesses to our nation's beginnings, these coinages have not always received the proper study they deserve. A case in point are the copper coins minted by the State of New Jersey, some of the more interesting state coinages because of their design and the circumstances under which they were made.

Decades ago, Damon G. Douglas began an extensive research project on the history of the New Jersey state coins. This important project was never completed, but Douglas' unfinished manuscript was acquired by the American Numismatic Society where it has been one of the more frequently consulted items on early state coinages in the library collection. In the interest of making Douglas' work more widely available, the American Numismatic Society publishes this valuable study for the first time. In addition, the manuscript has been annotated by prominent specialists on New Jersey coppers in order to bring the work up to date [David D. Gladfelter, Roger A. Moore, Md, FAAP, Gary A. Trudgen, Dennis P. Wierzba, Raymond J. Williams.] 130p, 3 illus., (American Numismatic Society 2004)

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"A Simple Souvenir: Coins and Medals of the Olympic Games", by Peter van Alfen

In this richly illustrated catalogue of the current ANS exhibit, "Full Circle: The Olympic Heritage in Coins and Medals," the author examines the role that numismatic material relating to both the ancient and modern Games has played in social and political contexts. In addition to the introductory essay, the catalogue provides a brief overview of the history of the Games and discusses over 130 objects, including ancient Greek coins, vases and sporting equipment, as well as modern medals, coins, and Olympic ephemera. 160p, illus., (American Numismatic Society 2004)

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"Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Guide, Part I, Seleucus I through Antiochus III"
by Arthur Houghton and Catharine Lorber
Seleucid Coins, Part I, is the first comprehensive treatment of early Seleucid coinage since Edward T. Newell's Eastern Seleucid Mints (1938) and Western Seleucid Mints (1941). It expands on Newell's catalogues with hundreds of new varieties that have come to light over the past sixty years, bringing together issues described in the scholarly literature and in commercial publications, as well as much material that is published here for the first time. In addition, Houghton and Lorber have critically examined both Newell's attributions and those of other scholars. They propose a number of significant reattributions, some of which redraw the map of Seleucid numismatics.   

Seleucid Coins is intended to be, first and foremost, a practical resource for coin identification. It is designed to be accessible to beginners and to numismatists who do not specialize in the Seleucids. The catalogues are organized in historical and geographic order, first by reign, then by mint, then by metal, denomination and issue. There are indices that enable searches by control marks, remarkable types, remarkable legends, and countermarks. More than one hundred plates illustrate representative examples of virtually every coin type and denomination from every mint.
In addition to an easy entry to the identification of Seleucid coins, the book contains extensive historical and other reference material that allows a deeper understanding of the historical context of Seleucid coin production. There is an introductory essay for each reign, opening with a summary of historical events, and proceeding with an overview of the ruler's coinage, mint policies, and iconographic program. Yet broader overviews are available in the front matter: a chronological table that juxtaposes major historical and numismatic developments, a stemma of Seleucid genealogy, and general observations on mint function and administration. A succession of maps illustrates the changing constellations of Seleucid mints. The appendices offer in-depth treatment of special topics, including bronze denominations and metrology, and countermarks appearing on Seleucid bronze coins. Other appendices are resources for further study: a complete list of hoards containing early Seleucid coins, and detailed surveys of the monetary output of the early Seleucid kings by reign and by region. Seleucid Coins, Part 1, will become an indispensable reference work for collectors, dealers, and scholars, including those in the fields of archaeology, history and art history. It will be followed in about a year by Seleucid Coins, Part 2, covering Seleucus IV through Antiochus XIII. Two volumes, illustrated, (American Numismatic Society and CNG Inc, 2002)

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