Auction Catalogue

9 April 2008

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Ancient Coins

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 544

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9 April 2008

Hammer Price:
£20

Pinkerton, J., An Essay on Medals, 3rd edn, 2 vols, London, 1808, xliv + 376, 448pp, two engraved plates; Cohen, H., Medailles Consulaires, Paris, 1857, 75 engraved plates only; Askew, G., The Coinage of Roman Britain, London, 1951, 95pp, engraved illustrations in text; Sotheby & Co [Zurich], The Collection of Ancient and Later Coins, the property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Part I, Roman Gold Coins, 10 November 1972, 347 lots, all illustrated, PRL [5]. First in original brown leather but vol. I with front cover detached, second in quarter-morocco and marbled boards, others in publishers’ bindings, last with handwritten prices and many buyers’ names (£40-60)

Provenance:
Second ex libris F.H.M. Ouwerling, with his bookplate and signature, July 1923