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Is Vant Haaf the only reference on this type?
Short answer: No, but his research is the most current.
The long answer is below. This is an excerpt from an article I've been working on for Numiswiki, providing an introduction to the series for potential collectors. If I ever get it done, I'll upload it. I suspect it'll be another year. I work on it piecemeal, just a little here, a little there:
Most information about this coinage is available only in bits and pieces from Web sources, old articles in long out-of-print academic periodicals, and passages in books devoted to the coinage of multiple cultures. Information and chronologies have been updated repeatedly over time, thus creating some frustrations for collectors trying to attribute their coins.
Over the years, numismatists primarily used Jacques de Morgan's 1930 study, which was published in Part III of "Traite des Monnaies Grecques et Romaines." De Morgan's study was translated and republished in 1976 by Attic Books as
Ancient Persian Numismatics: Elymais. Among other studies that have been published since de Morgan's early work are several articles from the 1960's by Georges Le Rider; Michael Mitchiner's 1978 book
Oriental Coins and Their Values, which includes a section on Elymais; David R. Sear's 1982
Greek Imperial Coins and their Values, which again has a section devoted to Elymais; Michael Alram's 1986
Nomina Propria Iranica in Nummis; an article by Ed Dobbins that appeared in "The Celator" in August 1992, focusing on bronze drachms from the Elymais Arsacid Dynasty; and an article, by Dr. G.R.F. Assar, covering early Elymaean coinage in "The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies," Autumn and Winter edition 2004 - 2005.
In 2007 the Classical Numismatic Group published the
Catalogue of Elymaean Coinage by P.A. Van't Haaff, which has by now largely gained acceptance as the primary reference for these coins.
Posted 06/28/2016 03:13 am
