Featuring essays by scholars from all over the world, this large-scale, lavishly illustrated book is entirely devoted to the legendary collection of Roman coins assembled by the Jewish-Egyptian collector and connoisseur Victor A. Adda. The book comprises a short biography of Victor Adda by his daughter Giovanna Adda Coen, along with selected pages from his handwritten catalogue; brief texts about key events in the history of the Roman Empire as reflected in the collection; a comprehensive table of the coins; and scanned plates from a private catalogue printed in 1986, including images of the entire Adda collection of over 1,000 coins.