Dictionary of Greek Coin Inscriptions: English/Greek [Hardcover]

Severin Icard (Author)

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Text: English, French, Greek

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• Hardcover: 563 pages
• Publisher: Sanford J Durst (May 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915262312
• ISBN-13: 978-0915262311
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,918,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book but with problems!, July 6, 2011

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This review is from: Dictionary of Greek Coin Inscriptions/English Greek (Paperback)

The content of this book is of extreme value for numismatists who collect Greek coins. It's a pity it took so long for this to come to the attention of a wider using audience.

Nevertheless, there are some problems with the description and the book's binding. My comments are made based upon the paperback version I recently purchased. The description says "English Greek" but this is true only for the preface and the "Directions for use"--limited to only 5 pages. The remainder of the book is French-Greek. For those who know French this will be no problem.

The paperback binding is an entirely different matter and potential buyers need to be forewarned that the issue published in 1979 by the publishing house, Obol International, apparently used the wrong glue. The binding of my copy was dried out and when I went to the middle of the book to look up an inscription the book cracked and immediately began to fall apart. It is barely useable in this condition. There is a hardbound version which perhaps might be better for use than the paperback version. But I do not know this from personal experience.

Otherwise, here we have 565 pages dedicated to deciphering ancient Greek inscriptions on coins but, more importantly, since ancient coins were often struck off-flan, not all of the inscription may be available to the examiner. This is where this book is extremely valuable because fragments of an inscription are alphabetized and even retrograde forms are also included. At the end there are two alphabetic charts giving both "Italic" and "Greek" letter forms.