A View of the History and Coinage of the Parthians, With Descriptive Catalogues and Tables, Illus: With a Complete Set of Engravings of Coins, a Large Number of Them Unpublished (Classic Reprint)

The Coins of the Parthian princes have perhaps afforded to Numismatists more perplexity than those of any other series and although Visconti, Sestini Mionnet and Dumersan together with M. Longperier and M. Lenormant, and in a still more recent and very valuable publication, Mn De Bartholomaei have made a very considerable degree of progress in their arrangement, I think it Yfi Wbe admitted that they have still left the subject incumbered vith many doubts and difficulties. The obscurity in which this series has been so long involved, and the little success which has attended the investigations of so many eminent Numismatists, had for a great many years induced me to devote a considerable portion of time to this very difficult and unpromising subject, and to collect as many of these coins as I conveniently could, and I have succeeded in collecting a very large number of them, and which but for the little estimation in which they have hitherto been held by collectors, I could never have accomplished, and from this collection as well as from numerous other sources, I have extracted a large stock of materials for the investigation of this series. Convinced that even the distinguished works of Sestini, Visconti and Mionnet, had left the subject in a very unsatisfactory state, I had severalyears since drawn up a view of the drachms of these princes, the most important class.of their cpins, but not having satisfied myself as to the appropriations ofeyeral-of ti6m I deferred publishing it. .V Nearly 800 silver and 100 brass, selected from at least double those numberfla Bdnearly all differing in either type, legend, or adjuncts.
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