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I FIRST met Bluma Trell, who has died aged 94, soon after the publication in 1977 of Coins and their Cities about the architecture on the ancient coins of Greece, Rome and Palestine. The book was a collaboration between Trell, then retired from her post as professor of classics at New York University and Martin Price of the British Museum.
Already well into her seventies, she retained a youthful, infectious enthusiasm. Although Trell was not the first classical scholar to appreciate the importance of coins she was...