FIDES: Contributions to Numismatics in Honor of Richard B. Witschonke

$275.00

This Festschrift honors Richard “Rick” B. Witschonke, and is limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. It will not be reprinted. It contains 20 articles of new scholarship on the ancient coinage of the Roman world and greater italic peninsula and islands.

Description

edited by Peter G. van Alfen, Gilles Bransbourg, and Michel Amandry (2015)

AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH THE ANS.

Contents:

  1. A Bibliography of Richard B. Witschonke
  2. Katerini Liampi. A Hoard from Thessaly Containing Aeginetan Staters and Thessalian Issues of the Taurokathapsia Type
  3. Andrew Burnett and Maria Cristina Molinari. The Capitoline Hoard and the Circulation of Silver Coins in Central and Northern Italy in the Third Century BC
  4. Peter van Alfen. A Late Third Century BC Hoard of Sardo-Punic Bronzes (IGCH 2290)
  5. Gilles Bransbourg. Currency Debasement and Public Debt Management at the Time of the Second Punic War
  6. David Vagi. Alliance and Coinage: South Italy during the Second Punic War
  7. Andrew McCabe. A Hoard of Cut Roman Republican Denarii from the Second Punic War
  8. François de Callataÿ. The Late Hellenistic Didrachms of Leukas: Another Case of Greek Coinage for the Roman Army
  9. Andrew R. Meadows. Four Cistophoric Hoards?
  10. William E. Metcalf. The Cistophori of Nysa
  11. Nathan T. Elkins. “A City of Brick”: Architectural Designs on Roman Republican Coins and Second-Style Wall Painting
  12. Liv Mariah Yarrow. Ulysses’s Return and Portrayals of Fides on Republican Coins
  13. Clive Stannard. The Labors of Hercules on Central Italian Coins and Tesserae of the First Century BC
  14. Michael H. Crawford. Sextus Pompeius between Hispania and Germania
  15. Philip Davis. Erato or Terpsichore: A Reassement
  16. Bernhard E. Woytek. The Aureus of Pompey the Great Revisited
  17. David Hendin. Judaea and Rome: The Early Numismatic Commentary, First Century BCE
  18. Patrick Villemur. De Quelques Émissions Coloniales Romaines en Sicile: Retour à Tyndaris
  19. Sophia Kremydi and Athena Iakovidou. Corinth and Athens: Numismatic Circulation from the Late Republic to the High Empire
  20. Jane DeRose Evans. The Third Neokorate of Sardis in Light of a New Coin Type Found in Sardis
  21. Michel Amandry. Le Monnayage de la Res Publica Coloniae Philippensium: Nouvelles Données

This Festschrift honors Richard “Rick” B. Witschonke, and is limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. It will not be reprinted. It contains 20 articles of new scholarship on the ancient coinage of the Roman world and greater italic peninsula and islands. RBW’s volume is 520 pages with illustrations throughout, bound in Roman imperial purple linen, and stamped in gold with the image of an as depicting an eagle above the word “ROMA”.

 

Hardcover, 520 pp.
Black and White illustrations throughout
ISBN: 978-0-89722-339-3
ANS Member Price: US$190.00
Regular Price: US$275.00
(no dealer/bookseller discount)