By David R. Sear
(with the collaboration of Simon Bendall and Michael Dennis O´Hara)
This provides a complete type catalogue of the entire Byzantine coinage¸ spanning almost a thousand years¸ from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in the late 5th century AD to the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in the mid-15th century. It provides more information in a concise form than any other single-volume work on the coinage of the Christian Empire in the East. The 1987 edition contains a thorough revision of the post-1204 section of the catalogue undertaken by Simon Bendall¸ the noted specialist in late Byzantine coinage; and a valuable appendix on modern forgeries contributed by Michael O´Hara¸ who has done considerable research on this important topic.
526 catalogue pages¸ including 34 pages of introductory articles¸ 7 maps¸ and table of monograms; 2¸645 coin types catalogued with valuations¸ plus 93 modern forgeries; over 600 photographic illustrations (by P. Frank Purvey) in the text; published by Seaby¸ London¸ 1987.
Price $100
