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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 17872, member: 57463&quot;]At the recent ANA convention in Pittsburgh, I bought Barclay Head&#039;s HISTORIA NUMORUM.&nbsp; The work is about 100 years old, with editions in 1887 and 1911.&nbsp; The 1911 edition has been reprinted extensively by Seaby and Sandy Durst among others.&nbsp; That is the one I bought, a Seaby printing.&nbsp; A lot of what we read about ancient Greek coins was the work of Head and his contemporaries.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also got the Jenkins &quot;coffee table&quot; book ANCIENT GREEK COINS.&nbsp; The nice pictures are worth the price of the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>A minor point: Byzantium is the usual spelling and some &quot;insiders&quot; are going over to calling them &quot;Romaion.&quot;&nbsp; They called themselves Romaion.&nbsp; The terms &quot;Byzantine&quot; and &quot;Byzantium&quot; were coined by French encyclopediasts of the mid 1700s, more as a political move than as scholarship... or so the story goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael</p><p>&quot;Now it&#039;s Istanbul, not Constantinople.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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