261 pp, + 77 b/w plates, hbi Turkish-English bilingual.
The first coins were struck in western Asia Minor about 2600 years ago from where minting spread to many parts of the Aegen and the Mediterranean world. Until the end of the Roman Empire hundreds of cities minted coins in this wide geographical area. With the result that ancient coins form numerically the largest group of all objects in museums. Today in many countries of the world, public and private museums are competing to publish their own collections of coins. In Turkey the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum which is owned by Yapı Kredi is the first private museum to have published, in seperate volumes, its rich coin collection which ranges from ancient times, to the end of the Ottoman Empire. In this book you will find 1105 Greek and Roman coins from the Yapı Kredi collection.