Symbolism on Greek Coins

In her unusual monograph Symbolism on Greek Coins, Agnes Baldwin attempted to reconcile numismatics, archaeology, art, primitism, and psychology in a way which must have seemed advanced in 1918 . These studies fell out of fashion in the more circumscribed numismatic and archaeological disciplines of 1920 to 1960 and later, and they have only come back into full, serious fashion i nthe past decade. The subject of symbolism involves a wide spectrum of ideas derived from the shorthand images, designs, and special letters on Greek archaic or classical coins, and the multitude of retrospective, compositions motifs and symbols by quasi-autonomous. Greek cities in Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt under the Roman Empire