This book will be an invaluable tool for numismatists and scholars
alike, as well as for anyone interested in the Phoenician coins of
Sidon, Tyre, Byblos, and Arwad. It presents a concise yet comprehensive
overview of the Phoenician coin types, illustrated and presented by
workshop, enabling any Phoenician coin to be identified. It gives a
chronological table of Phoenician kings, tables of the forms of letters
and numerals on the coins. All the main articles regarding this field of
research, published by the authors and scattered throughout many
international publications, have been collated and, where necessary,
updated. The major conclusions of these articles have been summarized.
The volume of text is separated from the volume of plates in order to
see the commentary about the coin and its image simultaneously. This
book also presents the new metrological method developed by the authors.