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The Athenian decadrachm / Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert.

by Fischer-Bossert, Wolfgang.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Numismatic notes & monographs: no. 168.Publisher: New York : American Numismatic Society, 2008Description: x, 94 p., 41 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780897223096 (hc); 0897223098.Subject(s): Decadrachma | Coins, Greek -- Greece -- Athens -- History | Coin design -- Greece -- Athens -- History | Numismatics -- Greece -- Athens | Forgery of antiquities. -- Case studies | Athens (Greece) -- HistoryDDC classification: 737.4938
Contents:
Introduction -- Description -- The types -- Internal arrangement of the series -- Fabric -- Context -- Provenances and hoards -- Dating the series -- The purpose of the issue -- Catalogue -- Known specimens -- Old specimens without known afterlife -- Lead trial pieces -- Forgeries -- Ancient forgeries -- Modern fakes and suspected specimens -- Becker's fake, before 2 October 1827 -- The second Strangford coin, before 1828 -- "Hoffmann," before 1866, or even before 1857 -- "de Luynes," before 1891 -- "Alexandria," before 1900 -- Christodoulou's fake, at least partly before 1903 -- "Schulman," before 1922 -- "Ars Classica," before 1928 -- "Burgon," before 1970 -- "Phoenician style," before 1985 -- Origin unknown, before 1992 -- Tourist fakes from Turkey and Syria, before 1993 -- From Syria, 2008 -- Still more fakes -- Appendix: The acquisition of the Prokesch-Osten specimen -- Concordances.
Item type: Books
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
American Numismatic Society Newell Room Greek F573 A84 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 38060000362640
American Numismatic Society General Stacks ANS Publications N865 No 168 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 38060000189985
American Numismatic Society General Stacks Greek F573 A84 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 38060000015495

Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-94).

Introduction -- Description -- The types -- Internal arrangement of the series -- Fabric -- Context -- Provenances and hoards -- Dating the series -- The purpose of the issue -- Catalogue -- Known specimens -- Old specimens without known afterlife -- Lead trial pieces -- Forgeries -- Ancient forgeries -- Modern fakes and suspected specimens -- Becker's fake, before 2 October 1827 -- The second Strangford coin, before 1828 -- "Hoffmann," before 1866, or even before 1857 -- "de Luynes," before 1891 -- "Alexandria," before 1900 -- Christodoulou's fake, at least partly before 1903 -- "Schulman," before 1922 -- "Ars Classica," before 1928 -- "Burgon," before 1970 -- "Phoenician style," before 1985 -- Origin unknown, before 1992 -- Tourist fakes from Turkey and Syria, before 1993 -- From Syria, 2008 -- Still more fakes -- Appendix: The acquisition of the Prokesch-Osten specimen -- Concordances.

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