Coins, Artists, and Tyrants: Syracuse in the Time of the Peloponnesian War [Hardcover]

Coins, Artists, and Tyrants contains the first fully translated and revised text of Lauri O. Tudeer, Die Tetradrachmenpr?gung von Syrakus in der Periode der signierenden K?nstler, as well as a biography of Tudeer, plus a completely new evaluation of signed coin dies and the artists who produced them. Over 100 years after its first publication, Wolfgang R. Fischer-Bossert completely updates the scholarship and bibliography on signed Syracusan tetradrachms, making this book the single most important source on the subject. The book includes plates, a full-color die-link chart, and three pull-outs featuring Syracusan tetradrachms and hoards.For the first time, the seminal work of Lauri O. Th. Tudeer is translated into English and presented here with a new introduction and analysis of chronology and style by Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, with a biographical note by Tuukko Talvio. The study comprises all of the c. 700 genuine Syracusan tetradrachms currently known. Numismatists and ancient art historians will hail this new book by Fischer-Bossert [...] Although the original goal of this book was to provide an English translation of Tudeers article and to expand his database, the final product is much more than just an updated catalogue of Tudeers original work.