Coins, Artists, and Tyrants

Syracuse in the Time of the Peloponnesian War

By (author) Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert Edited by Ute Wartenberg Translated by Orla Mulholland

Book cover: Coins, Artists, and Tyrants

Extent: 400 pages

Publisher: American Numismatic Society

Subjects: Classical Studies, Mediterranean Archaeology, Numismatics

Series: Numismatic Studies

Series volume number: 33

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2017)

ISBN: 9780897223416

8.46 x 10.94 inches

Price: $200.00

In stock

Coins, Artists, and Tyrants contains the first fully translated and revised text of Lauri O. Tudeer, Die Tetradrachmenpragung von Syrakus in der Periode der signierenden Kunstler, 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.


Coins, Artists, and Tyrants contains the first fully translated and revised text of Lauri O. Tudeer, Die Tetradrachmenpragung von Syrakus in der Periode der signierenden Kunstler, 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.

  • By (author) Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert
  • Edited by Ute Wartenberg
  • Translated by Orla Mulholland