Common Greek Coins, Vol. I

Hands focuses on widely encountered Greek series rather than rare types, including Athenian owls, Corinthian pegasi, Aeginetan turtles, Boeotian federal coins, Alexander tetradrachms, and league issues. The volume is useful for learning the diagnostic features, standards, and historical setting of coins that circulate frequently in collections and the market. It also shows how early twentieth-century collectors distinguished broad classes before the proliferation of specialized die corpora.

Because the work predates much of the modern archaeological, die-study, and provenance evidence, verify chronology, mint and ruler assignments, legend readings, authenticity, and present specimen locations against current corpora and databases.