The Athenian decadrachm
By: Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert.
Series: Numismatic notes and monographs -- 168
Publisher: American Numismatic Society
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780897223096
Subjects: Decadrachma; Coins, Greek -- Greece -- Athens -- History; Coin design -- Greece -- Athens -- History; Numismatics -- Greece -- Athens; Forgery of antiquities -- Case studies; Athens (Greece) -- History
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Description; title: Internal arrangement of the series; title: Fabric; title: Context; title: Provenances and hoards; title: Dating the series; title: The purpose of the issue; title: Catalogue; title: Old specimens without known afterlife; title: Lead trial pieces; title: Forgeries; title: Ancient forgeries; title: Modern fakes and suspected specimens; title: Becker's fake, before 2 October 1827; title: The second Strangford coin, before 1828; title: "Hoffmann," before 1866, or even before 1857; title: "de Luynes," before 1891 60; title: "Alexandria," before 1900; title: Christodoulou's fake, at least partly before 1903; title: "Schulman," before 1922; title: "Ars Classica," before 1928; title: "Burgon," before 1970; title: "Phoenician style," before 1985; title: Origin unknown, before 1992; title: Tourist fakes from Turkey and Syria, before 1993; title: From Syria, 2008; title: Still more fakes; title: Appendix: The acquisition of the Prokesch-Osten specimen; title: Concordances.