Koinon I, 2018: Inaugural Issue: the International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies: Vol 1

As the name indicates, KOINON is a journal that encourages contributions to the study of classical numismatics from a wide variety of perspectives. The journal will include papers concerning iconography, die studies, provenance research, forgery analysis, translations of excerpts from antiquarian works, specialized bibliographies, corpora of rare varieties and types, ethical questions on laws and collecting, book reviews, and more. The editorial advisory board is made up of members from all over the world, with a broad range of expertise covering virtually all the major categories of classical numismatics from archaic Greek coinage to late Medieval coinage. Table of contents for the inaugural issue: Why a New Journal in Classical Numismatics? An Editorial by Nicholas J. Molinari; GREEK NUMISMATICS; Sophocles’ Trachiniae and the Apotheosis of Herakles: The Importance of Acheloios and Some Numismatic Confirmations – by Nicholas J. Molinari; Provenance Lost and Found: Alfred Bourguignon – by John Voukelatos; A Philip III Tetradrachm Die Pair Recycled by Seleukos I – by Lloyd W.H. Taylor; Blundered Era Date on Coin of Arados, Civic Year 119 – by Martin Rowe; ROMAN NUMISMATICS; Sotto l’egida di Minerva: Echi monetali delle imprese britanniche da Cesare ai Severi – by Luigi Pedroni; A Doubted Variety of M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus Vindicated – by Jordan Montgomery and Richard Schaefer; Redating Nepotian’s Usurpation and the Coinage of Magnentius – by Shawn Caza; A previously unrecorded reverse for Constantine I – by Victor Clark; The Dating and the Sequence of the Persid Frataraka Revisited – by Wilhelm Müseler; ORIENTAL NUMISMATICS; The Kilwa Coins of Sultan al-Ḥasan ibn Sulaymān in their Historical Context – by N.J.C. Smith; An Introduction to Parthian Silver Fractions, The Little Anomalies of Arsacid Coinage – by Bob Langnas; An interesting denaro tornese of the Barons Revolt of 1459-1464 and some considerations regarding Nicola II di Monforte – by Andrei Bontas; A CATALOG OF NEW VARIETIES

Table of Contents

Why a New Journal in Classical Numismatics? An Editorial by Nicholas J. Molinari

GREEK NUMISMATICS

Sophocles’ Trachiniae and the Apotheosis of Herakles: The Importance of Acheloios and Some Numismatic Confirmations – by Nicholas J. Molinari

Provenance Lost and Found: Alfred Bourguignon – by John Voukelatos

A Philip III Tetradrachm Die Pair Recycled by Seleukos I – by Lloyd W.H. Taylor

Blundered Era Date on Coin of Arados, Civic Year 119 – by Martin Rowe

ROMAN NUMISMATICS

Sotto l’egida di Minerva: Echi monetali delle imprese britanniche da Cesare ai Severi – by Luigi Pedroni

A Doubted Variety of M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus Vindicated – by Jordan Montgomery and Richard Schaefer

Redating Nepotian’s Usurpation and the Coinage of Magnentius – by Shawn Caza

A previously unrecorded reverse for Constantine I – by Victor Clark

ORIENTAL NUMISMATICS

The Dating and the Sequence of the Persid Frataraka Revisited – by Wilhelm Müseler

The Kilwa Coins of Sultan al-Ḥasan ibn Sulaymān in their Historical Context – by N.J.C. Smith

An Introduction to Parthian Silver Fractions, The Little Anomalies of Arsacid Coinage – by Bob Langnas

An interesting denaro tornese of the Barons Revolt of 1459-1464 and some considerations regarding Nicola II di Monforte – by Andrei Bontas

A CATALOG OF NEW VARIETIES

Nicholas J. Molinari, MA, MEd, is a doctoral candidate in Humanities at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. His dissertation, in preparation, concerns Acheloios in relation to Thales and the origin of philosophy, and incorporates archaeological and numismatic evidence to paint a more robust picture of Thales and the emergence of philosophical activity. He is the co-author, with Dr. Nicola Sisci, of Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios. A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, with Essays on Origin and Identity (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2016).