Oriental Coins and Their Values: The Ancient & Classical World 600 B.C. - A.D. 6

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Oriental Coins and Their Values:
The Ancient & Classical World 600 B.C. - A.D. 650
By Michael Mitchiner
This remarkable 760-page hardback book is a true collector's resource book.  It is a first edition, published in 1978 by Hawkins Publications, London. The book is in good condition, with some foxing of pages on the upper right corner, but the spine is tight and the pages are otherwise in good condition.
Some of the chapters include the following information:
Origin of Western Coinage in Asia Minor
Persian Empire
Phoenicians in the West
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kingdoms
The Coming of Rome
Arabian Penninsula and Ethiopia
The Parthians
The Hephthalites
Khanate of the Western Turks
The Indo-Scythian dynasties
The Kushand
Ancient India
Mauryan Empire
Northern India during post- Mauryan period
The Ganges valley
Gupta Empire
Southeast Asia
China
This book includes information on the scripts on coins in many different languages and also includes hundreds of black and white photographs and tables throughout the text.
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