Greek Coins and Their Values ― Western Europe and North Africa: Coins of Spain, Gaul, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and North Africa

The first edition of Greek Coins and Their Values (GCV) by Seaby and Kozolubski was published in 1959, and republished in 1966 by Seaby alone. In 1978 David Sear completely revised and expanded GCV with a third edition in two volumes, which has been an unrivalled standard handbook on Greek numismatics for many collectors and dealers alike around the world.

Over the last 40 years there have been many new finds, publication of newly identified whole series and types and hundreds of specialist monographs, general studies, auction catalogues and as well as the expansion of the internet, now an indispensable research tool for research. All these developments have vastly expanded our knowledge of ancient numismatics in general and Greek coinage in particular which necessitates a new GCV.

The latest and fourth edition of Greek Coins and their Values by Italo Vecchi will follow the style of David Sear’s seminal 1978 edition, but will be greatly expanded in the format of Barklay Vincent Head’s Historia numorum: A manual of Greek numismatics (HN2), covering the inception of coinage in the 7th century BC to its final merge with the coinage of the Roman Republic from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD.

The scope of this new edition is to summarise the whole range of Greek coinage from West to East, with the latest up-to-date references and current valuations in three volumes; Volume I will cover Spain, Gaul, Italy, Sicily, the Islands off Italy and Sicily and North Africa.