CATALOGUE OF THE LATE BYZANTINE COINS, Vol. I (1082-1261 AD.), FULL REFERENCE!!!

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Authors: Valentin Marchev, Robert Wachter. Pages: 603; Language: English; ISBN: -03-0; The Catalogue of Late Byzantine Coins is the first major reference to include full and comprehensive typology of late Byzantine coinage (from 1081 to 1453) since the 1999 publication of Volume IV and V of the Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection . Here are some of the new and unique features of our Catalogue: 1) We have included coin types and variants known to Michael Hendy and Philip Grierson and all coin types of the late Byzantine period discovered after the end of the last century to the present day . We have included dozens of previously unpublished coin types and types previously published only in numismatic periodicals. These include coin types from several private collections unknown to English-speaking researchers . 2) We have made a detailed study of all late Byzantine coin types to present a much more complete and accurate picture of both their metric data (weight parameters, range of outer and die diameters, etc.) and precise specification of all types' patterns and their inscriptions. 3) We made drawings of all the coin types we could locate. The drawings are based on the principle that the reader will benefit much more from a composite image of the "ideal image" rather read more