Coinage and Money in the Byzantine Empire, 1081-1261

Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, trustees for Harvard University, 1969. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (foxing spots to block, pages are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket sunning, scuffing, toning & foxing with front flap clipped). Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine; pale green dust ujacket with green lettering; xviii, 453 pp, 3 folded illustratinos, 2 folded maps, 51 plates. "This work is the first systematic account of Byzantine coinage from 1081 to 1261."- dust jacket. Contents include: The eleventh century : monetary crisis -- Specific gravity determinations : gold and electrum nomismata ca. 1081-1203 -- The twelfth century : monetary recovery -- The monetary terminology of the twelfth century -- The date of the Alexian monetary reform -- The Palaia kai nea logarike -- Imperial ceremonial costume -- The Comneni -- The Angeli and Ducae -- The internal organization of the Metropolitan Mint -- The imitative coinage of the period of the Latin emperors (1204-1261) and kings of Thessalonica (1204-1224) ; The imitative coinage of the period of the Asenid tsars of Bulgaria (ca. 1195-?) -- The empires of Nicaea and Thessalonica -- Apodesmoi and Apokombia -- The coinage and the economy -- List of hoards. Also includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xvii).