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A collection of 22 essays on Macedonian and Roman coins compiled for the 75th birthday of subject expert Charles Hersh. The essays included are: * The coinage of King Derdas and the history of the Elimiote Dynasty- by Katerini Liampi * Philotas? A new coinage from Macedonia - by Ute Wartenberg * The coins of the Macedonian kings, Lysimachos and Eupolemos in the museums of Fethiye and Afyon - by Richard Ashton * Alexander in Asia Minor- by Georges Le Rider * The cAin Tab hoard (IGCH 1542) - by William E. Metcalf * Ants and eagles: some late Alexander staters from Amphipolis - by Hyla A. Troxell * Back to the future. Alexander the Great's silver and gold in the Balkans: the hoard evidence - by Yannis Touratsoglou * Two hoards of minor silver - by Arnold Spaer * Lions and lionesses, eagles and a few heads: a new uncertain mint in Caria - by Silvia Hurter * The coins in the name of Sura - by François de Callataÿ * Selinus and the quadrigatus - by Michael Crawford * The Mars/eagle and thunderbolt gold and Ptolemaic involvement in the Second Punic War -by A.R. Meadows * More evidence for the early denarius - by Richard Schaefer * Some late 'early' Republican quinarii - by Richard Witschonke * Unpublished Roman Republican bronze coins - by R. Russo * Roman Republican coinage c.150-90 BC - by H.B. Mattingly * The coinage of the Social War - by Andrew Burnett * Coinage, credit and the aerarium in the 80s BC - by J.H.C. Williams * The coinage of Bibulus again - by Michel Amandry * A group of Eraviscan denarii - by Robert D. Freeman * Roman Republican coins in the Manchester Museum - by Keith Sugden * Overstrikes and imitative coinages in central Italy in the late Republic - by C. Stannard