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This volume provides an authoritative and systematic account of the coins minted for Roman Egypt between AD 138 and 192. It is the first of four volumes, which will cover the provincial coinage of this crucial period of Roman history in its entirety. The coinage in this volume was produced at Alexandria, the commercial and cultural capital of the eastern Mediterranean. It is dated by the year, making it an invaluable guide to imperial presentation and to economic developments during this transitional period. Its iconography is of exceptional interest to scholars and collectors, combining fascinating aspects of Greek, Roman and Egyptian culture. The book gives a complete picture of the material, meeting the needs of numismatists and providing an essential reference for historians, archaeologists and other students of the Roman empire. The introductory chapters and extensive catalogue are accompanied by illustrations of virtually all known types.

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Chris Howgego is the former Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum and Professor of Greek and Roman Numismatics in the University of Oxford. He is an editor of the series Roman Imperial Coinage and Roman Provincial Coinage. He is the author of the standard work on countermarks on provincial coinage (Greek Imperial Countermarks, 1985) and of Ancient History from Coins (1995), currently available in six languages, and edited Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces (2005). He has written widely on Roman coinage and history.

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