NEW BOOK: CATALOGUE OF PERSIS COINAGE

After his marvelous "Catalogue of Elymaean Coinage", published in 2007, Pieter Anne van't Haaff started working on a catalogue of the Persis Coinage.

After Susan Tyler-Smith's article "A parcel of Persis drachms, half drachms and obols," in the Numismatic Chronicle (2004), and Statthalter Rebellen Könige – Die Münzen aus Persepolis von Alexander dem Großen zu den Sasaniden (Munich: Staatliche Münzsammlung, 2008) by Dietrich O. Klose and Wilhelm Müseler, everyone was anticipating the book on Persis coinage by Pieter Anne van't Haaff.

In 2010, his book with the title "Catalogue of Persis Coinage, Ca. 280 B.C. – A.D. 228 and with the subtitle "34 Kings of 5 dynasties that ruled in Iran for 500 years", was submitted to CNG.

In the first part of the book, the author deals with the characteristics of the coinage and in the second part offers an impressive catalog of 660 coin types. The coinage is treated chronologically: (1) the Frataraka dynasty, (2) the rulers under Seleucid and (3) afterwards Parthian sovereignty to end with the (4) Vadfradad IV and the (5) Shapur dynasty. This corpus became his magnum opus!

Unfortunately the publication date repeatedly slipped, then the author passed away in December, 2018. CNG has now released the original manuscript and plans to publish an updated second edition with Scott VanHorn as co-author.

You can download the book from these links: 
https://www.cngcoins.com/Digital+Publications+Archive.aspx
https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/catalogue_of_persis_coinage or, go to the home page of CNG (www.cngcoins.com) and on the right sidebar click "Digital Publications Archive" in the "Products and Services" category.

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