YZANTINE

OINAGE

Philip GriersonDumbarton Oaks Research Library and CollectionWashington, D.C.

Dumbarton OaksTrustees for Harvard UniversityWashington, D.C.All rights reservedPrinted in the United States of AmericaSecond Edition

Cover illustrations

Solidus of Justinian

(enlarged

5:1)ISBN

0-88402-274-9

iii

Preface

his publication essentially consists of two parts. The first part is a secondedition of

Byzantine Coinage

, originally published in 1982 as number 4 inthe series Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection Publications. Although theformat has been slightly changed, the content is fundamentally the same. Thenumbering of the illustrations,* however, is sometimes different, and the texthas been revised and expanded, largely on the advice and with the help of Cécile Morrisson, who has succeeded me at Dumbarton Oaks as advisor forByzantine numismatics. Additions complementing this section are tables of val-ues at different periods in the empire’s history, a list of Byzantine emperors,and a glossary.The second part of the publication reproduces, in an updated and slightlyshorter form, a note contributed in 1993 to the International NumismaticCommission as one of a series of articles in the commission’s

Compte-rendus

sketching the histories of the great coin cabinets of the world. Its appearance insuch a series explains why it is written in the third person and not in the first. Itis a condensation of a much longer unpublished typescript, produced for theCoin Room at Dumbarton Oaks, describing the formation of the collection andits publication.

* The coins illustrated are in the Dumbarton Oaks and Whittemore collections and are re-produced actual size unless otherwise indicated. Weights are given in grams.