The Athenian Decadrachm

by Fischer-Bossert, Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9780897223096
• ISBN10: 0897223098
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-02
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

This book represents a huge advance on the previous study of the material, Chester Starr's Athenian coinage, 480-449 B.C. (Oxford, 1970). Fischer Bossert has collected more than three times as many specimens as were known to Starr, and has provided a full account of the known forgeries drawn from the photo-files of major dealers, scholars and Museums. This is an indispensable work for all interested in the coinage and history of 5th-century Athens. In addition, its judicious discussion of the history of the forgery of these remarkable coins will make this volume a handbook for all serious collectors of ancient Greek coinage.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Description	p. 5
The types	p. 5
Internal arrangement of the series	p. 8
Fabric	p. 12
Context	p. 15
Provenances and hoards	p. 15
Dating the series	p. 18
The purpose of the issue	p. 29
Catalogue	p. 33
Known specimens	p. 33
Old specimens without known afterlife	p. 49
Lead trial pieces	p. 50
Forgeries	p. 53
Ancient forgeries	p. 53
Modern fakes and suspected specimens	p. 54
Becker's fake, before 2 October 1827	p. 54
The second Strangford coin, before 1828	p. 56
"Hoffmann", before 1866, or even before 1857	p. 57
"de Luynes", before 1891	p. 60
"Alexandria" before 1900	p. 63
Christodoulou's fake, at least partly before 1903	p. 64
"Schulman", before 1922	p. 67
"Ars Classica", before 1928	p. 68
"Burgon", before 1970	p. 73
"Phoenician style", before 1985	p. 75
Origin unknown, before 1992	p. 75
Tourist fakes from Turkey and Syria, before 1993	p. 76
From Syria, 2008	p. 76
Still more fakes	p. 76
Appendix: The Acquisition of the Prokesch-Osten Specimen	p. 79
Concordances	p. 84
Bibliography	p. 85
List of Plates	p. 95
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