British and World Coins

Sotheby & Co, The Valuable Collection of Coins and Medals, the property of the late John G. Murdoch: Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and English Coins, Part I, 31 March-4 April 1903, 772 lots, 10 plates + frontispiece portrait; Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and English Coins, Part II, 8-13 June 1903, 919 lots, 14 plates; Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and English Coins, Part III, 15-19 March 1904, 718 lots, 7 plates. Priced but no buyers’ names; bound in half-leather and brown boards, ribbed spine with gilt lettering, some external scuffing and interior foxing, otherwise a clean set, important £90-120

Provenance: Ex libris Raymond Carlyon-Britton with his bookplate; Ernest Danson, Derby [from Seaby]