EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Metallurgy in Numismatics, Volume I. D. M. Metcalf and W. A. Oddy (eds.) (London, 1980). Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No. 13, small 4to, viii, 217 pages plus figures and 28 plates, in original red cloth with dust jacket. The first volume in the important science-based Metallurgy in Numismatics series, bringing together technical studies, review articles, bibliographies, and critical notes across a wide range of numismatic fields. Particularly valuable for the way it applies scientific analysis directly to coinage, the volume includes studies on coins from the Asyut Hoard, the sources of silver for archaic Greek coinage, metal analysis in archaic Greek research, the silver content of Roman Republican issues, ninth-century Northumbrian coinage, Crusader gold and neutron activation analysis, Scottish placks and groats, Greek white gold and electrum, and chemical investigation of nineteenth-century English silver tokens, making it a highly useful reference for collectors, researchers, and specialists working at the intersection of numismatics and metallurgical study. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; overall the book is in VG condition. From the personal reference library of David Allen, a well known numismatist, formed over more than 50 years and used as a long term reference for research, attribution, and catalogue work.

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