foreign publications
Sayles Wayne G. - Ancient Coin Collecting III. The Roman World - Politics and Propaganda, Iola 1997, ISBN 0873415337
198 pages in B5 format, hardcover with wrapper, minor soiling of page spines and pages 108-109, minor damage to lower outer corner of some pages. Third volume of the publishing series describing ancient and ancient numismatics. An illustrated, cross-sectional study this time of the minting of the Roman republic and empire (3rd century BC - 5th century AD from Scipio Africanus to Anastasius) with attention to the issue of politics and propaganda depicted on the coins of the time. Each of the sections describing the rulers described has links to further literature on the subject. The book includes maps, a list of mints, denomination tables, more than 300 illustrations, allowing confident identification of coins, an extensive gallery of portraits of Roman emperors depicted on coins. A separate section shows masterpieces of Roman minting (including the denarius of Brutus). It also includes chapters devoted to, among other things, aspects of architecture or astrology depicted on coins. The book concludes with a glossary, bibliography and index. A valuable reference tool of Roman minting.
