ANCIENT LITERATURE LOTS. Ancient Coin Collecting (five-volume group from the six-volume series), Wayne G. Sayles, comprising the core Ancient Coin Collecting (1996, 197 pp.) and its expanded Second Edition (2007, 312 pp.), together with Volume III The Roman World: Politics and Propaganda (Second Edition, 2007, 291 pp.), Volume IV Roman Provincial Coins (1998), and Volume VI Non-Classical Cultures (1999), all Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, a practical working library that starts with the real basics of collecting and attribution, then moves into focused coverage of Roman imperial issues and how coins were used for messaging, the wide and often under-used provincial coinages, and the broader non-classical cultures beyond the Greek and Roman mainstream, illustrated throughout and backed by the usual reference aids for collectors including bibliographies and indexes. VG, with signs of handling to the covers, but the interiors remain clean and very well kept overall. 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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