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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
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coins, Greek.
- Coins, Ancient--Greece.
- Coins, Ancient.
- Electrum.
- Greece.
- Eretz Israel--Antiquities.
- Genre:
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.) ill
- Other Title:
- White Gold
- Place of Publication:
- American Numismatic Society
- 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
- 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
- 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 Bibliothèque 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
- 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
- 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
- "Hēde Kyzikos plea statērōn": how to explain the electrum coinage of Cyzicus / Selene E. Psoma.
- ISBN:
- 9780897225045
- 089722504X
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