KOINON I, 2018

As the name indicates, KOINON is a journal that encourages contributions to the study of classical numismatics from a wide variety of perspectives. The journal will include papers concerning iconography, die studies, provenance research, forgery analysis, translations of excerpts from antiquarian works, specialized bibliographies, corpora of rare varieties and types, ethical questions on laws and collecting, book reviews, and more. The editorial advisory board is made up of members from all over the world, with a broad range of expertise covering virtually all the major categories of classical numismatics from archaic Greek coinage to late Medieval coinage. Table of contents for the inaugural issue: Why a New Journal in Classical Numismatics? An Editorial by Nicholas J. Molinari; GREEK NUMISMATICS; Sophocles Trachiniae and the Apotheosis of Herakles: The Importance of Acheloios and Some Numismatic Confirmations by Nicholas J. Molinari; Provenance Lost and Found: Alfred Bourguignon by John Voukelatos; A Philip III Tetradrachm Die Pair Recycled by Seleukos I by Lloyd W.H. Taylor; Blundered Era Date on Coin of Arados, Civic Year 119 by Martin Rowe; ROMAN NUMISMATICS; Sotto legida di Minerva: Echi monetali delle imprese britanniche da Cesare ai Severi by Luigi Pedroni; A Doubted Variety of M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus Vindicated by Jordan Montgomery and Richard Schaefer; Redating Nepotians Usurpation and the Coinage of Magnentius by Shawn Caza; A previously unrecorded reverse for Constantine I by Victor Clark; The Dating and the Sequence of the Persid Frataraka Revisited by Wilhelm Mseler; ORIENTAL NUMISMATICS; The Kilwa Coins of Sultan al-asan ibn Sulaymn in their Historical Context by N.J.C. Smith; An Introduction to Parthian Silver Fractions, The Little Anomalies of Arsacid Coinage by Bob Langnas; An interesting denaro tornese of the Barons Revolt of 1459-1464 and some considerations regarding Nicola II di Monforte by Andrei Bontas; A CATALOG OF NEW VARIETIES