Chalkous, for Everyday Dealings - The Unknown World of Copper Coinage

By Vasso Penna.

Benaki Museum, 2006. In English. Hard cover, 23x25 cm, 274 pp., net weight 1320 gr., ill. Exhibition catalogue: Benaki Museum (2006); more than 500 copper coins are presented: from the 5fh century B.C. up to the establishment of the Modern Greek State. This exhibition presented for the first time a part of the numismatic collection belonging to the Welfare Foundation for Social and Cultural Affairs. This collection focuses entirely on copper coins.

CONTENTS:

Greek bronze coins - Hellenistic bronze coins - Roman bronze coins - Byzantine bronze coins (Mints of Constantinople, Nicomedia, Alexandria, Cyzicus, Antioch, Thessalonica, Carthage, Ravenna, Syracuse).