Auction Catalogue

19 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Coins including Important Irish Coins from a Private Collection (Part I)

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 781

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19 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£35

Avebury, Lord, A Short History of Coins and Currency, 2nd edn, London, 1903, x + 138pp, illustrations in text; Thompson, J.D.A., Inventory of British Coin Hoards AD 600-1500, London, 1956, xlix + 165pp, 24 plates, dj; Dykes, D.W., Anglo-Saxon Coins in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 1978, 31pp, illustrations in text; Dyer, G.P. (ed), Royal Sovereign 1489-1989, 99pp, illustrations in text, dj; Challis, C.E. (ed), A New History of the Royal Mint, Cambridge, 1992, xxi + 806pp, illustrations in text, dj; Marsh, M.A., The Gold Sovereign, 2nd edn, Cambridge, 1999, x + 118pp, illustrations in text, dj; Marsh, M.A., The Gold Sovereign, [3rd] edn, Cambridge, 2002, x + 126pp, illustrations in text; Marsh, M.A., The Gold Half-Sovereign, 2nd edn, Cambridge, 2004, x + 111pp, illustrations in text; together with other references and offprints, etc, on British coins (61), by Morrieson, Lockett, Freeman, Stewartby, Brand, Parsons, Seaby, Linecar, Brooke, Withers, etc [69]. Publishers’ bindings, a useful lot; the three volumes of Marsh matching special edition nos. 19, signed by the author (£50-70)

Provenance:
Avebury ex libris A.F. Ryder Bird, with his bookplate
Thompson ex libris Thomas D. Walker, with his bookplate
Dyer ex libris Patrick Finn, Baldwin Auction 28, 9 October 2001, lot 2143.

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