Numismatic Literature
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Lot 602 SESSION 2 (11.30am Tuesday 31st March) Numismatic Literature
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WEST, Allen B., Fifth and Fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian Coast, (NN & M No.40), American Numismatic Society, New York, 1929, 183 pp., 16 plates; Cox, D.H., Coins from the Excavations at Curium, 1932-1953, ANS, New York, 1959, 125pp, 10 plates; NN&M No.87, Miles, George C. A Byzantine Weight Validated by Al-Walid, 1939, 11pp.; NN&M No.124; Miles, George C., Contributions to Arabic Metrology, I, Early Arabic Glass Weights and Measure Stamps, acquired by the American Numismatic Society 1951-1956, (NN & M No.141), American Numismatic Society, New York, 1958, 124 pp., 13 plates; Robinson, David M., A Hoard of Silver Coins from Carystus, (NN & M No.124), American Numismatic Society, New York, 1952, 62 pp., 6 plates. Fine - very fine, mostly scarce and all important. (5)
The first a standard work on this coinage listing and describing every known piece at the time of publication. It is important for the detailed treatment by dies on the silver coinage of Maroneia, struck to 300 B.C. The excavations at Curium lists 753 coins found on the site from Greek to Medieval period, important for the late Ptolemaic Egyptian material. The last volume is on an important hoard of ancient Greek coins coming from Central Greece, buried c.235 B.C.
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