I am also extremely grateful to Andrew Burnett, I have very happy memories of days spent in their company in Oxford and New York, and at internationalĬongresses. Here to receive my thanks: Colin Kraay and Nancy Waggoner, both of whom were unfailingly In the courseĬurators past and present in all the major cabinets have patiently showed me coins and sent me casts and photographs. Title page, it owes much to his efforts and I can only hope that he would have approved of the final result. Although the book does not after all carry Noe's name on the Have shared their expertise very generously with him. Those who sent casts to Noe andĬorresponded with him are long dead M.P. Numerous people have contributed to this study over the many years of its preparation. Identify as many dies and die-combinations as possible, listing in the catalogue an illustrated reference piece and providing a concordanceīetween the catalogue and the relevant volumes of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Through the sales catalogues of the last 50 years, or the space to print a very detailed listing. Producing a catalogue of this type, but in the end I decided that it was not worth the time involved in tracking the pieces The final version differs in one important regard from Noe's (and my own) original intention: the plan was to produce aįull die study along the same lines as Parts 1 and 2, listing all the known examples. All in all, it is perhaps just as well that Part 3 has taken 20 years to mature. Keith Rutter and myself to finish the Italy fascicule of the third edition of Historia Numorum this forced me into a thorough study of the other coinages of S. Useful diversion was a renewed attempt by Michael Crawford, Nevertheless, althoughįurther delay, the revision of the earlier periods was a very valuable exercise and I feel that ultimately Part 3 has benefitted Inevitably the work of updating turned into a far larger undertaking than was envisaged at the outset. One of these distractions was the updating of Parts 1 and 2, an idea that had been mooted early on and actuallyġ984 largely thanks to the encouragement and practical support of Dr. Like Noe, I would pick up the project from time to time, only to be distracted by other things just when I was making Gradually and reluctantly I came to the conclusion that I had to make a completely fresh start. He had left nothing on important topics such as hoards and overstrikes, where in any case there was a substantial Never written down explicitly the sequence in which he thought the issues had been struck, though it was possible to piece Noe had changed his mind about some things, like the gold, and left several conflicting versions. Nobody could decipher the hieroglyphs and I had to accept that they were impenetrable. Text and casts, so that there was no way of knowing what his comments and second thoughts were. One major practical problem was that Noe had learned a peculiar system of shorthand which he used to annotate notes, Part 3 would be published under Noe's name, and I would do little more than act as midwife.
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Possible simply to put his catalogue in order and update it, pull together his various drafts and provide whatever was still Of work on the remaining material, arranging the coinage into groups and identifying dies, and even writing sections of theĪs magistrates' names, the gold issues, and the coinage of Alexander the Molossian. He never entirely abandoned Metapontum, however, and by his death in the early 1960s he Given that it is now 20 years since I took over Noe's notes and casts with the aim of completing the last part of his study, Kubitschek, in the Numismatische Zeitschriftįor 1931, noted the publication of Parts 1 and 2 and promised "ein Paar Worte zu dem ganzen bedeutenden Werk" - but Part 3 Later and in the Preface Noe referred to Part 3 as if work were well in hand. It is over 60 years since Sydney Noe published Part 1 of his Coinage of Metapontum (1927). Hoards buried after the end of regular minting at Metapontum Hoards containing Metapontum Class D and Taras Period VII [Pyrrhic WarĦ. Hoards containing Metapontum Class C8–11/D1 and Taras Period VI (all)ĥ. Hoards containing Metapontum Class C1–7 and Taras Period VI (part) [burialĤ.
Hoards containing Metapontum Class B/Class C1 and Taras Period V [burial c.ģ. Note on Terminology and Catalogue NumberingĢ.
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