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Dumersan, T.M., Numismatique du voyage du Jeune Anacharsis ou Médailles des beaux temps de la grèce, 2 vols, Paris, 1818, xiv + 144, 129pp, portrait frontispiece, 90 engraved plates [2]. Full contemporary maroon leather, gilt and blind, decorated and ribbed spines, all edges gilt; some light foxing, otherwise very fine and clean, attractive £60-80
Hammer Price: £170
Head, B.V., …British Museum…A Guide to Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients, London, 1883, vii + 128pp, 7 plates; Hill, G.F., A Handbook of Greek and Roman Coins, London, 1899, xv + 295pp, 15 plates; Mattingly, H., Roman Coins, 1st edn, London, 1928, xix + 300pp, 64 plates; [Hill, G.F.], A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks, London, 1932, iv + 106pp, 50 plates; Sutherland, C.H.V., Coinage and Currency in Roman Britain, London, 1937, xii + 184pp, 14 plates (Manville...
Hammer Price: £110
Langlois, V., Numismatique de l’Arménie dans l’Antiquité [1859], the 1979 Forni reprint, xx + 87pp, 6 engraved plates; Mommsen, T., Geschichte des Römischen Münzwesens [1860], the 1956 Graz reprint, xxxii + 900pp; Forrer, L., Portraits of Royal Ladies on Greek Coins [1938], the 1969 Chicago reprint, viii + 72pp, illustrations in text; together with other references, mostly on ancient coins (26), by Heckel, Burnett, Casey, Sabine Bourgey, Heidemarie Koch, Imhoof Blumer, etc [29]....
Hammer Price: £35
Madden, F.W., The Handbook of Roman Numismatics, London, 1861, xii + 172pp, 6 engraved plates; Mattingly, H., Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol. I, Augustus to Vitellius; vol. II, Vespasian to Domitian; vol. III, Nerva to Hadrian; vol. VI, Severus Alexander to Balbienus and Pupienus, London [1923-62], first three 1976 reprints, all with plates; Hill, G.F., A Guide to the Exhibition of Roman Coins in the British Museum, London, 1927, 80pp, 8 plates; Sutherland, C.H.V., The...
Hammer Price: £65
Madden, F.W., Account of the Collection of Roman Gold Coins of the late Duke de Blacas, London, 1867, 70pp, 3 engraved plates; Sydenham, E.A., The Roman Monetary System, Parts I and II, London, 1919, 91pp; Numismatic Chronicle reprint series by Attic Books (7), all on Roman topics, by Grueber, Sydenham, Kraay, Mattingly, Webb, etc; ‘Coin Hoards I and II’, two volumes containing original offprints of articles from the Numismatic Chronicle by Roth (South Ferriby), Pearce (Shapwick),...
Hammer Price: £100
Mattingly, H., Origins of the Imperial coinage in Republican times, London, 1919, 14pp; Mattingly, H., The last issues of gold and silver from the Senatorial mint of Rome, London, 1919, 10pp; Grueber, H.A., Roman bronze coinage from B.C. 45-3, London, 1904, 60pp, 3 plates; Grueber, H.A., Coinages of the triumvirs, Antony, Lepidus and Octavian, London, 1911, 44pp, 2 plates; Mattingly, H., The coinage of the Civil Wars of 68-69 A.D., London, 1914, 28pp, 2 plates; Mattingly, H., The mints of...
Hammer Price: £95
Mattingly, H., Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol. II, Vespasian to Domitian; vol. IV, Antoninus Pius to Commodus, London [1930-40], the 1968-76 reprints, both with plates; Boon, G.C., Silchester: The Roman Town of Calleva, 2nd edn, Newton Abbot, 1974, 379pp, plates, dj; Thurlow, B.K., Italian Cast Coinage, with Vecchi, I.G., Italian Æs Rude, Signatum and the Æs Grave of Sicily, London, 1979, 50pp, 82 plates, dj; Harl, K.W., Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman...
Mattingly, H., and Sydenham, E.A., Roman Imperial Coinage, vol. I, Augustus to Vitellius, London, 1962, 279pp, 16 plates; vol. II, Vespasian to Hadrian, London, 1968, xvi + 568pp, 16 plates; vol. III, Antoninus Pius to Commodus, London, 1930, xviii + 514pp, 14 plates; vol. IV Parts II and III, Macrinus…to Uranius Antoninus, London, 1938 and 1949, x + 215pp, 13 plates, xxiii + 246pp, 16 plates [5]. Vol. III in brown half-leather and marbled boards, others in publishers’ green cloth,...
Hammer Price: £75
May, J.M.F., Ainos, its History and Coinage, Oxford, 1950, xvi + 288pp, 9 double plates, dj; Herzfelder, H., Les Monnaies d’Argent de Rhegion, Paris, 1957, 154pp, 20 plates, uncut; Kraay, C.M., and Jenkins, G.K., Essays in Greek Coinage presented to Stanley Robinson, Oxford, 1968, xii + 268pp, 33 plates, dj; Liampi, Katerini, Argilos, A Historical and Numismatic Study, Athens, 2005, 377pp, 27 plates [4]. Publishers’ bindings; first a working copy with signature of Kenneth Jenkins on...
Hammer Price: £360
Newell, E.T., The Coinages of Demetrius Poliorcetes, London, 1927, ix + 174pp, 18 plates, dj. Original tan cloth and boards; dj scruffy, otherwise a very fine and clean copy £80-100
Hammer Price: £140
Numismatik Lanz (Munich), Auctions 14-132 (40, no duplication), 1978-2006, all of ancient coins, including Slg Benz, Karl, Margaretha Ley, etc; together with other auction catalogues (28), 1974-96, of Frank Sternberg (23) and NFA (5) [68]. A very fine group, many with PRLs inserted £40-60
Patin, C., Introductio ad Historiam Numismatum, Amsterdam, 1683, xii + 251pp, engraved illustrations in text; bound with Suares, J.M., De Numismatis & Nummis Antiquis Dissertatio, Amsterdam, 1683, vi + 49pp (Dekesel P61, S242). Original leather; cover a trifle shaky, internally mostly clean £40-50
[Pinkerton, J.], An Essay on Medals, 1st edn, London, 1784, xxxii + 324pp, 2pp corrigenda (Manville 213). Modern quarter leather and boards; quotation from Samuel Johnson on the collecting of coins and some prices realised at the Benjamin Bartlett sale, May 1787, in a neat contemporary hand on endpapers, other corrections to the main text in the same hand, very fine and clean £50-70
£50–£70
[Pinkerton, J.], An Essay on Medals, 1st edn, London, 1784, xxxii + 324pp, 2pp corrigenda (Manville 213); Pinkerton, J., An Essay on Medals, 2nd edn, 2 vols, London, 1789, xlviii + 302pp, iv + 364pp, 6 engraved plates; Pinkerton, J., An Essay on Medals, 3rd edn, vol. II only, London, 1808, 447pp, 3 engraved plates [3]. First in original brown leather, gilt edging, second bound in one volume in later grey boards, floral decorations on spine, last in marbled boards but with front cover...
Poole, R.S., and others, A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum: Catalogue of the Coins of…The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c…Lysia…Mysia…Lycia, Pamphylia and Pisidia…Lycaonia, Isauria and Cilicia…Macedonia…Ionia…Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos…Galatia, Cappadocia and Syria…Seleucid Kings of Syria…Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia [1877-1922], 11 vols, the Forni reprints, 1964-5; Troxell, Hyla A., The Coinage of the Lycian League [ANS NNM 162],...
Robinson, E.S.G., A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins: Part I, Italy, Sicily, Carthage, Lisbon, 1971, 136pp, 42 fine plates in separate binding; Jenkins, G.K. A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins: Part II, Greece to East, Lisbon, 1989, 200pp, 56 fine plates in separate binding [4]. Cloth, gilt; new £150-250
Hammer Price: £270
Rollin et Feuardent (Paris), Collection de Feu M. le Vicomte E. de Quelen, Monnaies Romaines et Byzantines, 14-26 May 1888, 2,627 lots, 13 plates (plates 7-13 photocopies). Modern black quarter-leather and grey boards, spine gilt; internally very fine and fresh £40-50
Hammer Price: £30
Smith, W., Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, 2 vols, London, 1849, viii, 1,108 + 1,383pp; Wright, T., The Celt, the Roman and the Saxon, London, 1885, xiii + 562pp, engraved illustrations in text; Calder, W.M., and Keil, J. (eds), Anatolian Studies presented to William Hepburn Buckler, Manchester, 1939, xviii + 380pp, 7 plates; Seyrig, H., Notes on Syrian Coins [ANS NNM 119], New York, 1950, 35pp, 2 plates; Reifenberg, A., Ancient Jewish Coins, 4th edn, Jerusalem, 1965, 66pp, 16...
Hammer Price: £85
Smyth, W.H., Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Imperial Large-Brass Medals, Bedford, 1834, xxii + 352pp. Original maroon cloth; spine faded, internally fine and clean; ALS from A.P. Read at the British Museum, 17 January 1918, to the Head Master, Bedford School, regarding a frame of Greek coins for the school, tipped-in £40-60
£40–£60
Jean Vinchon (Paris), Collections Roger Peyrefitte, Monnaies Grecques…Romaines…Objets…, 29 April 1974, 233 lots, PRL tipped-in; Bonhams (London), Auctions 1, 2 and 4 (1980); Vecchi/Schwer, Auction 1, 13 May 1983, priced and with buyers’ names; NFA/Bank Leu (Beverly Hills), The Garrett Collection, Parts I and III, 1,427 + 1,556 lots, Part I with PRL; Christie’s (London), The Goodacre Collection of Byzantine Coins, 22 April 1986, 343 lots; Sotheby’s (New York), The Nelson Bunker...
Walker, O., The Greek and Roman History Illustrated by Coins & Medals, London, 1692, xvi + 360pp (Dekesel W11). Modern contemporary-style decorated full leather by Symington, York, ribbed and gilt spine; some minor amends in a neat hand, otherwise attractive and clean £50-70
Hammer Price: £160
Walsh, Rev. R., An Essay on Ancient Coins, Medals and Gems as illustrating the Progress of Christianity in the early ages, London, 1828, viii + 140pp, 38 engraved plates, bound with Akerman, J.W., A Numismatic Manual, 1st edn, London, 1832, xii + 172pp, 7 plates (Manville 295); Humphreys, H.N., Ancient Coins and Medals, London, 1850, iv + 208pp, 10 plates of relief facsimiles; Hill, G.F., A Handbook of Greek and Roman Coins, London, 1899, xv + 292pp, 15 plates; Milne, J.G., Greek and Roman...
£40–£50
Walsh, Rev. R., An Essay on Ancient Coins, Medals and Gems as illustrating the Progress of Christianity in the early ages, London, 1828, viii + 140pp, 38 engraved plates; Akerman, J.Y., Coins of the Romans relating to Britain, 1st edn, London, 1836, vi + 84pp, 6 engraved plates (Manville 304); Akerman, J.Y., Coins of the Romans relating to Britain, 2nd edn, London, 1844, xi + 170pp, 7 engraved plates (Manville 335) [3]. First in contemporary black half-leather, gilt and ribbed spine, second...
De Wilde, J., Selecta Numismata Antiqua, Amsterdam, 1692, 212pp, folding map, 29 engraved plates (Dekesel W62). Modern half-leather and marbled boards, ribbed and gilt spine; internally fine and clean, attractive £60-80
Bronze age, c. 1200 BC, looped palstave decorated with three short vertical ribs on each side, 14.9cm long. Rich olive green patina £120-150
Roman, 2nd century AD, bronze spout, moulded as a comic actor’s theatre mask with wide open mouth, snub nose and heavy brow, 42 mm by 46 mm (cf. Roman Artefacts R370). Light green patina £150-200
Hammer Price: £150
Roman, 2nd century AD, oil lamp, North Africa buff clay, on rim ovolo, on discus an umbilicus with air hole in centre with circle of rays, length 11 cm, height 5 cm. Good condition £40-60
Roman, 5th century AD, oil lamp, North African red ware, on the rim triangles, on the discus bearded figure, length 14 cm, height 5.5 cm. Only minor chips £60-80
Hammer Price: £80
Roman, 5th century AD, oil lamp, North African red ware, on the rim alternating circles and palm branches, on the discus a recumbent lion, length 13 cm, height 5 cm. Some chips on handle £40-60
Roman, 5th century AD, oil lamp, North Africa brown clay, on rim lines, on discus cross, length 10 cm, height 5.5 cm. Heavily worn £30-40
Hammer Price: £25
Roman, 5th century AD, oil lamp, North Africa brown clay, rim smooth, on discus crescent within incised border, length 11 cm, height 4 cm. Heavily worn £30-40
Hammer Price: £50
Anglo-Saxon, mid 6th century, bronze cruciform brooch (missing the foot), integral top and side knobs of flattened D-shape with incised decoration with stylised zoomorphic heads, small arched bow, lappets also with incised decoration, length 90mm, width 65mm (cf. MacGregor, BAR 230, 12.32). Even green patina £150-200
Norman, 11th century, bronze mount of a dragon, moulded in the round, heavily decorated with punches and ribbing, the body narrow and elongated with central perforations for attachment and clips underneath for securing, length 78 mm, width 12 mm. Extremely rare and with a dark green patina £200-300
Hammer Price: £200
Late 13th century, a pewter pilgrim’s ampulla from Canterbury, depicting on one side the martyrdom of Thomas à Beckett, on the other Beckett blessing above four roundels, fleur-de-lis suspension bracket around, height 46 mm, width 44 mm (Medieval finds from London 7 (1998), Spencer 7a). Natural gilding patina, but small area of corrosion has penetrated through the centre of one side £200-250
Late 13th century, a gold ring, set with a cabochon amethyst in a square bezel, decorated with punches, the tapering band decorated with incised Xs either side of the bezel, 21mm diameter, 1.3g. A number of scrapes around the band which appears to have been reshaped £500-700
Hammer Price: £500
14th century, a bronze seal matrix, circular with central loop behind, legend reads S’IOHIS DE CASTELLO around a shield-shaped coat of arms containing three castles, star at top and sides. 20 mm. Green patina and good detail £200-250
Hammer Price: £180
15th century, a lead pilgrim’s ampulla of flask shape decorated on both sides with three fleur-de-lis. Both suspension handles intact, top pinched together £40-60
15th century, a bronze dog-headed spout from a jug or “laver”. Finely executed style, river patina £80-100
Hammer Price: £60
Late 15th century, a brass purse bar, the central boss with incised lines, the horizontal bar with writhen terminals, 100 mm wide, 54 mm high. River patina £40-60
16th or 17th century, a pocket sundial, brass, 38 mm, complete. Good condition £300-400
Hammer Price: £250
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