This volume continues documenting the well-known excavations at
Morgantina, a Greek town in central Sicily, in a presentation of the
largest body of coins ever unearthed at an Italian site and published as
a group. The excavations, conducted by Princeton University, The
University of Illinois, and The University of Virginia between 1955 and
1981, produced nearly 10,000 identifiable coins--most of them at of
Sicilian Greek and Roman issues, struck before the end of the first
century B.C. The numismatic evidence not only made possible the initial
identification fo the side as Morgantina, but has subsequently opened
the way to reconstructing the history of early Roman Republican coinage
and the bronze coinage of Greek Sicily. The catalogue presents a full
list of the coins found at Morgantina through the 1981 season, with
discussion of significant issues and illustrations of 679 specimens. A
completed corpus and study of the coins struck at Morgantina is also
included.
Theodore V. Buttrey is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at the
University of Michigan. Kenan T. Erim is Professor of Classical
Archaeology at New York University. Thomas. D. Groves is a graduate
student in the Department of Classical Archaeology at Princeton
University. R. Ross Holloway is Professor of Classical Archaeology at
Brown University.
Originally published in 1990.
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