Byzantine coins and their values

by David R. Sear

Seaby, London, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 415 pp; illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, drawings, and maps; 23 cm. First edition. [From front jacket flap] The collector will find more information compressed into this work than in any other single volume published previously on Byzantine coinage. The period covered is from the reign of Anastasius I (491-518) to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453. 2,260 coins are catalogued and valued with over 600 illustrations giving an almost complete listing of the main Byzantine coin types presently known in gold, silver and copper. The front part of the catalogue includes articles on types, mints, denominations, dates and legends, there are also maps showing the varying extent of the Empire in different periods, and tables of regnal and indictional years for most of the earlier reigns.

Genres: Numismatics

415 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1974