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Lot 2176      

Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au

SCHWEIZERISCHE NUMISMATISCHE RUNDSCHAU (REVUE SUISSE DE NUMISMATIQUE [SWISS NUMISMATIC REVUE]), the annual journal of the Swiss Numismatic Society, Volumes 45-49, 57 and 63, various issues from 1966 - 1984. Very fine, scarce. (7)

An important series of numismatic publications for the student, scholar and collector of coins with many major articles being the standard work of that subject. Although published in Switzerland, many articles are in English and the rest either in German, French or a few in Italian. The specialist studies on ancient and medieval coins, include in English the standard work - Coins of Punic Sicily by G. Kenneth Jenkins; Balcer, The Archaic Coinage of Skyros and forgeries of Konstantinos Christodoulos; Balcer, Phokaia and Teos: A monetary alliance; Kraay, two late fifth century B.C. hoards from South Italy; Balcer, The Early Silver Coinage of Teos; Balcer, Peparethos: The early coinage reconsidered; Starr, Naval activity in Greek Imperial issues. Many of the other papers are in German or French and are the major studies of that city, hoard or subject. An indispensible publication with no complete sets being available in any public collection in Australia. The cataloguer is only aware of two near complete sets and these are privately owned. A larger set of 16 different volumes in our Sale 61 realised $1170 and current issues are sold at 80-100Sfr./volume.