Coins, Artists, and Tyrants: Syracuse in the Time of the Peloponnesian War (Numismatic Studies) - Hardcover

Fischer-Bossert, Wolfgang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0897223411 ISBN 13: 9780897223416

Publisher: American Numismatic Society, 2017

Synopsis

Coins, Artists, and Tyrants contains the first fully translated and revised text of Lauri O. Tudeer, Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Syrakus in der Periode der signierenden Künstler, as well as a biography of Tudeer, plus a completely new evaluation of signed coin dies and the artists who produced them. Over 100 years after its first publication, Wolfgang R. Fischer-Bossert completely updates the scholarship and bibliography on signed Syracusan tetradrachms, making this book the single most important source on the subject. The book includes plates, a full-color die-link chart, and three pull-outs featuring Syracusan tetradrachms and hoards.

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Review

"Numismatists and ancient art historians will hail this new book by Fischer-Bossert [...] Although the original goal of this book was to provide an English translation of Tudeer’s article and to expand his database, the final product is much more than just “an updated catalogue of Tudeer’s original work.” (Paolo Visonà American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 122, No. 4 (October 2018))

Edition details

• Publisher: American Numismatic Society
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897223411
• ISBN 13: 9780897223416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Wartenberg Ute