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Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values
Volume I Dacia, Moesia Superior, Moesia Inferior
(English Edition)
Ivan Varbanov, ©2005 Adicom Publications

Welche Erfahrungen?
Wo gekauft?

Hier meine Anzeige der bulgarischen Ausgabe, und meine Erklärung, warum ich die englische Ausgabe noch nicht bestellt habe!
Beides vom Amiforum, Books and References, wo ihr auch Beiträge von anderen Teilnehmern finden könnt.
Attempts to be a complete catalogue of the provincials of Moesia, Thrace, Macedonia. Excerpts descriptions and illustrations from the specialist mint studies and articles, many in Bulgarian and difficult to access and read for Western Europeans and Americans. Also excerpts CNG, NAC, Gorny, Lanz, Hirsch, Rauch, and Peus cats. from c. 1990 on. Some coins added from private collections.
Accuracy is middling, errors fairly common. One very bad practice is sometimes resorted to, the repetition of an obv. image with a rev. it doesn't go with, because the source illustrated the rev. only of that coin but Varbanov wanted to show both sides!
That's vols. 1-3, arranged by province, then mint, then emp., then rev. legends and types in alphabetical order. Vol. 4 is totally different: a SELECTIVE cat. of provincials of the rest of the empire, Spain, Africa, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Alexandria, arranged first BY EMPEROR, then geographically under each emperor, in other words a copy of Sear's Greek Imperial book but with Moesia, Thrace, Macedonia excluded. Since order by emperors rather than mints ruins the subject, this is of minimal value. Hopefully they won't even bother to translate this vol. into English.
Vol. 5, which as far as I know hasn't yet appeared in Bulgarian, is scheduled to cover the autonomous coins of Moesia, Thrace, Macedonia.
Publication of the English version due this year or next, I have heard, but I know no details.

The exorbitant price has kept me from acquiring the book so far.
In Nov. 2002, I paid $139 for VOLUMES I TO IV of the Bulgarian edition, that is $34.75 per volume. That seemed OK, but no bargain, since the books are cheaply produced and bound, and involve little original research, being mainly a compilation of already published material.
Now I am asked to pay $145 for Volume I only of the English translation?
Looks like I may have to revive my plan to learn numismatic Bulgarian, which I had put off in anticipation of simply buying the English edition of Varbanov!
Apparently over 1100 new listings have been added to the English edition, meaning I would like to acquire it someday. Same publisher Adicom, but have the paper, printing, size, and binding also remained the same for the English as for the Bulgarian edition?

@curtislclay!

Danke für die Info!

Welche Literatur in Bezug auf Provinzen würdest du empfehlen?

Bestimmt Sears Greek Imperial Coins, obwohl die Anordnung nach Kaisern anstatt nach Münzstätten verwirrend und alles andere als zielführend ist, wie oben gesagt.
Dann RPC, reicht aber bisher nur bis 96 n. Chr.
Sonst gibt es leider keine royal road. Man muss eine ganze Bibliothek anshaffen, z.B. sämmtliche Werke von Imhoof-Blumer, Louis Robert, Henri Seyrig, Hans von Aulock, Ruprecht Ziegler; Die antiken Münzen Nordgriechenlands, Recueil général, BMC; die einschlägigen Syllogen, vor allem Kopenhagen, von Aulock, Levante, Paris soweit erschienen; schliesslich eine ganze Menge Monographien und Artikel, die die Münzen einer bestimmten Stadt oder Region abhandeln.

Danke für die Auskunft!

Mal sehen was sich noch organisieren lässt!

Mein Interesse gilt der Zeit von 222-235 (Severus Alexander)!