_Provinces._ _Cities, Islands, Tribes, Kings, etc._
EGYPT, _The Ptolemaic_ { Ptolemy I. (Soter),--Ptolemy XIII. and
_Kings of_. { Cleopatra.
_Alexandria, Imperial_ M. Antony,--Galerius.
_The Nomes_.
CYRENAICA Cyrene, Barca.
SYRTICA Leptis Magna, Oea.
BYZACENE Hadrumetum, etc.
ZEUGITANA Carthage, Utica, etc.
NUMIDIA, _Kings of_ Jugurtha, etc.
MAURETANIA Bocchus I., Juba II., etc.
The above list, although an outline of the barest description, may
serve to give some idea of the ground which is covered by a collection
of Greek and cognate coins.
It will also serve to warn the young collector against buying in a
miscellaneous manner.
Let him take up some particular province; say, for example, Sicily, in
which there were some fifty towns which struck coins. He will soon find
that the numismatics of these fifty towns will be a field for study
which will amply reward him for the labour he bestows upon it.
§ OF THE PRICES OF GREEK COINS.
The prices which Greek coins fetch at sales depend upon their rarity,
their state of preservation, and their size, not much upon the artistic
or the historical interest, or upon the metal of which they are
composed. Thus, a gold coin of Alexander the Great, being common, may
be obtained almost at metal value, while a rare copper coin of some
obscure town in the heart of Phrygia may cost almost as many pounds as
the gold coin of Alexander does shillings.