The art of money. (coins of ancient Greece and Rome)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 15, 1994 | Copyright information

Coin design began as an art form in Ancient Greece around 700 BC, and every major city had distinctive coinage. Major cities strove to produce the most beautiful coin designs, because the most appealing coins were respected as international currency.

THOSE who do not regard coin design as an art form have probably not spent much time recently at Sotheby's, where two of the world's great coin collections have come on the market. The first, sold in 1990, was the "highly important" co...

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