BALKANS. Coinage in the Balkans 820-1355. D. M. Metcalf (Chicago, Argonaut, 1966, second printing). Octavo, xix, 286 pages with 16 plates, red cloth with gilt, in dust jacket. A respected and highly useful study of medieval Balkan coinage, bringing a complex and often fragmented field into a clear historical and numismatic framework, and valued for the way it combines careful scholarship with practical usability at the desk. The plates provide solid comparative material for attribution and quick checking, making the volume a dependable working reference for collectors, researchers, and cataloguers handling the coinages of the medieval Balkans. 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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