Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World

EDITORS' NOTE
This volume represents the culmination of the efforts that have
gone into the organization and staging of the Nickle Conference since
September 1979. Sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humani-
ties, the Office of the Curator of Numismatics, and the Faculty of
Continuing Education of the University of Calgary, the conference
was held October 19-23, 1981, at the Nickle Arts Museum. In addi-
tion to providing a forum for the presentation of new ideas--many of
which are published here--the congress introduced to the scholarly
community the significant numismatic collection that has been brought
together at the University. The organizers thought it fitting that the
conference should be named in honour of Samuel C. Nickle, an Alber-
ta pioneer whose generous donation to the University resulted in the
establishment of the Nickle Arts Museum, and of his son. Carl, whose
gift forms the nucleus of that museum's coin collection.
The present selection includes most papers given at the October
meeting, though in slightly revised forms. Aside from conventions
required by the Press, no effort has been made to harmonize these
papers stylistically. As to abbreviations of ancient titles and modern
scholarly books or periodicals, we have in general followed the Oxford
Classical Dictionary and L'annee philologique. If citations in a paper
differed from these but left no likelihood of confusion, we did not
alter them.
Some speakers presented tentative conclusions or reports of work
in progress, and their views are published only in abstract form;
others felt that publication of even a summary would be premature.
Hence, we wish to acknowledge the contributions of those individuals
whose papers do not appear in this collection: Drs. Vladimir and
Elvira Clain-Stefanelli (Smithsonian Institution), Dr. A. A. Barrett
(University of British Columbia), Mrs. A. H. Easson (Royal Ontario
Museum), and especially Mr. C. Orton, Curator of Numismatics
(Nickle Arts Museum). Professor F. E. Shlosser presented a report
in conjunction with that of Dr. G. M. Woloch; her subject is alluded
to in Dr. Woloch's abstract. Regrettably, the format of the article by
Professor Francis Cairns (Liverpool) could not easily be accommodated
by the IBM Displaywriter; the article has been published in ZPE 54
(1984), 145-155. Professor Duncan Fishwick's article also could not
appear and will be published elsewhere. He has, however, con-
tributed another paper to the volume.