Numismatic Books

Lot # 13909 - GREEK. Greek Numismatics and Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Margaret Thompson. Otto Morkholm and Nancy Waggoner (eds.) (Wetteren, 1979). Large quarto, 326 pages with frontispiece portrait and 41 plates, in green cloth. A substantial Festschrift bringing together important studies that connect Greek coinage with archaeological context across a wide range of series and problems, and a useful illustrated reference volume for research, comparison, and scholarly consultation. 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.Estimate: AUD 100

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Lot # 13908 - GREEK. Historia Numorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics. Barclay V. Head (Chicago, Argonauts Inc. Publishers, 1967). Hardcover. The classic handbook of Greek numismatics in a widely used reprint edition, long valued as a broad and dependable framework reference for mints, regions, and principal series across the Greek world, and an essential companion to more specialised catalogues for attribution, comparison, and general research. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; with some light pencil underlining and a little page creasing from use, though the binding remains sound and the pages largely clean; 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.Estimate: AUD 150

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Lot # 13907 - GREEK. Greek Coins and Cities. Norman Davis (Seattle and London, Spink and the Seattle Art Museum, 1967). 221 pages. An engaging introduction to Greek coinage told through the civic identities behind it, presenting 110 coins from the Seattle Art Museum collection, each illustrated and described in depth alongside the historical background of the issuing city, so that types, legends, and imagery are read in context rather than as isolated collectibles. The book is particularly strong as a teaching and reference tool because it pairs clear photography with substantial commentary and frequent enlargements that bring out style, fabric, and iconographic detail, making it useful both for newcomers building a framework and for collectors wanting well written city-by-city context for familiar series. Paper cover with tiny tears, original book cover is in great condition, overall VG from many years of use. 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.Estimate: AUD 100

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Lot # 13906 - GREEK. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Denmark, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum (SNG Copenhagen), John Goddard, seven-volume Sunrise Publications edition (West Milford, New Jersey, 1981?1982), bringing together the first thirty-nine Copenhagen fascicules in uniform folio volumes and presenting the Danish National Museum?s Greek coin collection in the classic SNG format of full-page photographic plates with concise facing catalogue text, a cornerstone tool for attribution and comparison that is routinely cited across the literature, dealer catalogues and auctions, and often described in the trade as one of the largest and most comprehensive SNG corpora, with the seven volumes together comprising about 463 plates illustrating roughly 20,000 coins across a very broad geographical spread. Clain-Stefanelli 1912* (the asterisk used to mark titles recommended for a core numismatic library). Condition is exceptionally fresh overall, with clean, crisp interiors and only minimal shelf or handling traces to the exteriors. 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.Estimate: AUD 1000

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Lot # 13905 - GREEK. Greek Coins: A History of Metallic Currency and Coinage Down to the Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms. (London, Methuen, 1960). Hardcover, 311 pages with 64 plates, in dust jacket. A classic narrative survey of Greek monetary history, tracing the development of metallic currency and coinage from the earliest issues through to the end of the Hellenistic kingdoms, written to explain how coinage evolved in response to commerce, warfare, state finance, and shifting political power across the Greek world. Particularly useful as a broad framework text, it ties types and series to historical context while the extensive plates provide solid comparative material for style, fabric, and major iconographic themes, making it a dependable companion to more specialised catalogues and a helpful reference for collectors who want the bigger story behind the coins. Paper cover with light wear and shelf dust, dust jacket with minor edge wear, original book cover is in great condition, overall VG from many years of use. 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.Estimate: AUD 100

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Lot # 13904 - GREEK. Gaulish and Early British Gold Coinage by Dr John Sills, Spink, London, 2003. A substantial and highly important reference work on Celtic gold coinage, covering the series from the arrival of the Philippus in Gaul to the opening of the Gallic Wars, with particular attention to north-eastern France and southern Britain. The volume runs to xii, 554 pages and is extensively illustrated throughout, with photographs of approximately 540 coin types and varieties, many previously unpublished, together with reconstruction drawings of more than 200 die pairs, 17 plates, 40 maps including a folding map, 123 figures and 39 tables. Sills brings together classification, die study, hoard evidence, distribution mapping and historical background into a work of real depth, including a catalogue of around 3,000 recorded examples and detailed analysis of 80 hoards. A serious and beautifully produced Spink publication, and still one of the key standard references for Gaulish and early British gold. About new.Estimate: AUD 250

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Lot # 13903 - GREEK. Atlas de Monnaies Gauloises. Henri de La Tour, centenary reprint and updated edition, Paris, Claude Burgan (Maison Florange), 1992 (orig. 1892), with updates by Brigitte Fischer (CNRS). Paperback. The classic plate atlas underpinning modern Celtic numismatics, reproducing the De La Tour engravings and arranging the coinage of ancient Gaul by regions and tribes (Gaule Belgique, Celtique, Aquitaine, Narbonnaise), with c. 2,000 illustrations across 55 plates covering staters, drachms, bronzes, and fractions. The centenary edition adds a new foreword and introduction on the project?s origins (Cabinet des M?dailles, Biblioth?que Nationale), editorial corrections, explanation of signs and abbreviations, and improved alphabetical tables and indices. Near new, with only slight cover rub and tiny shelfwear, contents clean and complete.Estimate: AUD 250

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