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NEW PUBLICATION

Chaim Yashin, From Ascalon to Rafia: City-Coins of the Southern Palestinian Coast [Ashqelon: 2007]. 110 pp. 27 B/W plates.

This attractive small volume comprises the author’s personal coin collection. Born in Poland Yashin came to Palestine in 1942. A resident of Ashqelon, he began collecting coins in the 1950s, and specialized in the mints closest to his home: Ascalon, Gaza, Raphia and Anthedon. Perhaps the best collection of these mints’ coins in Israel, Yashin prepared a full catalogue of the results of a lifetime of collecting, completing it—along with detailed introductions to each series—before his death in 2002.

The volume was posthumously published by Chaim Yashin’s widow. It includes 519 detailed catalogue entries (Ascalon, 271; Gaza, 214; Raphia, 31; and Anthedon, 3), covering the full range of minting of these cities, from the Persian period (end of the fifth century bce) to the Umayyad period (eighth century ce). Almost all of the coins are illustrated in 27 plates of quality black and white photographs. The collection contains many new variants, and is without doubt the most comprehensive report of the coins of these four mints published to date.

                                                                          

Price: 110 NIS. For INS members: 90 NIS. In the near future it will be possible to buy the book through our overseas distributors. For purchasing, please contact Chaim Yashin's daughter at daniemf@bezeqint.net

The book can also be bought through our European distributors:
Paul-Francis Jacquier

 

 
 
H. Gitler and O. Tal, The Coinage of Philistia of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC: A Study of the Earliest Coins of Palestine. Collezioni Numismatiche 6. Ennerre, Milan 2006.

ISBN 88-87235-38-4; 416 pages, 30 X 21 cm. format; hard cover, cloth.


 
Please visit:
 
http://www.edizioniennerre.it/EN416C.htm
 
http://www.achemenet.com [Actualités; livres récents]
 
The distributors of this publication are:

Edizioni Ennerre: http://www.edizioniennerre.it/EN201.htm

 
Amphora Books http://www.amphoracoins.com/content.asp?s=books is the official distributor in the USA
 

    

 


 

Israel Numismatic Journal index (Vols. 1-14)

list of special publications (to be added)



ONLINE ARTICLES

The following files are in pdf format, opened with Acrobat Reader. Don't have it?, click here!

Survey of Numismatic Research 1990–1995: The Levant by Haim Gitler

Survey of Numismatic Research 1996–2001: The Levant by Haim Gitler

A Comparative Study of Numismatic Evidence from Excavations in Jerusalem by Haim Gitler (LA 46 [1996])



TALKS GIVEN BY INS MEMBERS

Auction houses by David Farahdel, TA branch (added July 2006)

Coin minting in 'Akko by Yehoshua Zlotnik, TA branch (talk given May 30, 2005; added Feb. 2007)
 

 

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