White gold : studies in early electrum coinage / edited by Peter Van Alfen and Ute Wartenberg ; with Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, Haim Gitler, Koray Konuk, and Catharine C. Lorber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Alfen, Peter G., editor.

Wartenberg, Ute, editor.

American Numismatic Society (1907- ), publisher.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coins, Greek.

Coins, Ancient--Greece.

Coins, Ancient.

Electrum.

Greece.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

707 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The American Numismatic Society ; Jerusalem : The Israel Museum, 2020.

Summary:

This book collects the most complete, current scholarship on the history of known examples of ancient electrum coinage of the Greek world, with text, catalogue, and images.

Contents:

White gold and the beginnings of coinage: an introduction to the current state of research / Peter Van Alfen and Ute Wartenberg. Part I. The great transformation. As skillful as croesus: evidence for the parting of gold and silver by cementation from second and first millennium Mesopotamia / Kristin Kleber ; A view from the near east: the transition from metal to coin economy in the southern LeVant / Haim Gitler and Oren Tal ; The inscribed account on lead from the Ephesian Artemisium / John H. Kroll

Part II. The earliest electrum: the evidence. White gold and electrum in literary sources and inscriptions / Selene E. Psoma ; Electrum coins and their archaeological context: the case of the Artemision of Ephesus / Michael Kerschner and Koray Konuk ; The archaic temples in the Artemision of the "central basis" / Michael Kerschner ; An archaic striated electrum coin from the sanctuary of Aphrodite at Miletus / Bernhard Weisser ; The question of archaic Athenian electrum / Kenneth Sheedy ; Depletion gilding of Lydian electrum coins and the sources of Lydian gold / Nicholas Cahill, Jill Hari, Bülent Önay, Esra Dokumaci ; Elemental analysis of the Lydo-Milesian electrum coins of the Bibliotèque Nationale de France using la-icp-ms / Maryse Blet-Lemarquand and Frédérique Duyrat ; Xrf analysis of several groups of electrum coins / Haim Gitler, Yuval Goren, Koray Konuk, Oren Tal, Peter Van Alfen, David Weisburd ; Phanes: a die study / Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert

Part III. The earliest electrum: interpretations

why coinage? The choice of electrum monometallism: when and why / Alain Bresson ; A quantitative approach to the beginnings of coinage / François R. Velde ; Mechanism design approach to Lydian coinage / Donald W. Jones ; Issue identification, dynastai, and the plethora of types in early electrum coinage / John H. Kroll ; The role of "the state" in early electrum coinage / Peter Van Alfen

Part IV. Electrum continuation. Was there an Ionian revolt coinage? Monetary patterns in the late archaic period / Ute Wartenberg ; Prolegomena to a die study of the electrum coinage of Cyzicus / François de Callataÿ ; Cyzicene electrum coinage and the black sea grain trade 665 / Mariusz Mielczarek ; " Ἥδε κύζικος πλέα στατήρων": how to explain the electrum coinage of Cyzicus / Selene E. Psoma.

Notes:

Bases on the proceedings of a conference on electrum coinage held at The Israel Museum in Jerusalen in 2012, and a white gold conference held at the American Numismatic Society in New York City in 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780897223492

0897223497

OCLC:

957522885

Publisher Number:

99988597350