Numismatic Books

Lot # 14059 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum (Paris, Berlin, Wien), Band III/2: Shapur II to Kawad I, Second Reign, Catalogue. Nikolaus Schindel. Vienna, Verlag der ?sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004 (?AW Denkschriften 325; Ver?ffentlichungen der Numismatischen Kommission Band 42). Pictorial hardback, approx. 490?500 pages. ISBN 3-7001-3314-6. The working catalogue volume to SNS III/1, covering the coinage from Shapur II (AD 309 to 379) through the second reign of Kawad I (AD 499 to 531), set out ruler by ruler with the full typology, legend concordances, bust and crown varieties, denomination series and metrology, and carefully read mint signatures, supported by clear matrices of obverse and reverse combinations and a fully referenced catalogue drawing on major collections and earlier literature, with attention also to imitations and questionable or false pieces. Substantial appendices treat the Marw mint into the mid-fifth century, the Humeima hoard, Sasanian minting in Sind, and a consolidated group of related inscriptions and material sources, followed by detailed indices and bibliography. A bright, clean example with sharp boards, a square spine, and a fresh text block showing only the slightest shelf trace.Estimate: AUD 150

Lot # 14058 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum (Paris, Berlin, Wien), Band III/1: Shapur II, Kawad I, Second Reign. Nikolaus Schindel, with contributions by S. Stanek, R. Linke and M. Schreiner. Vienna: Verlag der ?sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004. ISBN 3-7001-3314-6. Pictorial hardback, c. 510 pp., extensively illustrated with plates, charts and analytical tables. An important volume in the SNS corpus, treating the coinage from Shapur II (AD 309?379) through the second reign of Kawad I (AD 499?531), with typology by ruler, detailed treatment of crown and bust varieties, and careful organisation of mints and mint signatures, backed by substantial metrology and legend work and frequent references to the main literature and collections. Imitations and doubtful pieces are addressed, and the appendices add real depth, including studies of the Marw mint, the Humeima hoard (Jordan), Sasanian minting in Sind, and a consolidated regnal chronology, with full indices and bibliography. Choice copy, clean and tight with only the faintest shelf wear.Estimate: AUD 200

Lot # 14057 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum (Paris, Berlin, Wien), Volume II: Ohrmazd I to Ohrmazd II. Michael Alram and Rika Gyselen, with contributions by M. Blet-Lemarquand, C.G. Cereti, R. Linke, M. Melcher, N. Schindel and M. Schreiner. Vienna, Verlag der ?sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012, produced with the Biblioth?que nationale de France, the Berlin M?nzkabinett, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Large 4to, silver-blue pictorial boards as issued, 598 pages, with tri-lingual headings (German, English, French) and extensive illustration throughout. A major reference for the early Sasanian period, with substantial essays on monetary history and metrology followed by a fully referenced catalogue for the reigns from Ohrmazd I through Wahram I, Wahram II, Narseh, and Ohrmazd II, supported by detailed indices and a full bibliography. Exceptionally fresh copy with bright, sharp boards and corners, and a clean, immaculate interior.Estimate: AUD 150

Lot # 14056 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum (Paris, Berlin, Wien), Band I: Ardashir I to Shapur I. Michael Alram and Rika Gyselen, with contributions by P.O. Skj?rv?, R. Linke, M. Schreiner, and J.-N. Barrandon. Vienna, Verlag der ?sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2003, produced with the Biblioth?que nationale de France, the Berlin M?nzkabinett, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Silver-blue pictorial hardback, approx. 393 pages, packed with full-page coin plates, typology charts, and metrological and analytical tables. This volume brings together the Paris, Berlin, and Vienna Sasanian holdings for the first two rulers, with substantial historical and numismatic studies on Ardashir I and Shapur I, a palaeographic section, and metallurgical work based on XRF analysis. The main catalogue follows in full detail, recording denominations, mints, legends, bust and reverse varieties, and concordances, with thorough indices and bibliography at the end. Bright, clean copy with sharp boards, crisp corners, and fresh pages throughout.Estimate: AUD 150

Lot # 14055 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. System und Chronologie der M?nzpr?gung des Kusanreiches. Robert G?bl (Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1984). German text with English, German, and Latin summaries, with index and bibliography. A major specialist study setting out the system and chronology of Kushan coinage in a rigorous, scholarly framework, valued for organising the series and providing a workable structure for attribution and sequence work across this complex imperial coinage. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, cover is good for the age and years of use, overall VF from many years of use, unbelievable condition for such a book, about new and very well preserved over the years.Estimate: AUD 750

Lot # 14054 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Indo-Scythian Coins and History, Volume IV Supplement: Additional Coins and Hoards; The Sequences of Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian Kings. R.C. Senior. Lancaster, PA and London, Classical Numismatic Group, 2006, first edition. Paperback. ISBN 0-9709268-6-3. The long-awaited companion to Senior?s three-volume set (2001), extending and correcting the series with newly recorded varieties, additional rulers and types, and a major hoard dossier that refines the Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian king sequences. The introduction tackles the main chronological and attribution questions, including successions, eras, overstrikes, monograms, weight standards, and hoard evidence, drawing on the steady flow of post-2000 discoveries and key epigraphic advances. The main section presents a supplementary catalogue of newly documented coins alongside a substantial register of hoards (including many of the standard named groups), supported by practical tables for comparisons, suggested dates, royal titles, dynastic types, and monogram sequences keyed to the earlier volumes. Compiled from first-hand records and the author?s own photographic material, it preserves primary data often scattered across sales and journals and remains a core working reference for cataloguers and advanced collectors. As new, with bright covers and clean pages throughout.Estimate: AUD 150

Lot # 14053 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Indo-Scythian Coins and History, Volume III: The ?Easy Finder? Catalogue of Types, Monograms and Letters Appearing on Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian Coins. R.C. Senior. Lancaster, PA and London, Classical Numismatic Group, 2001, first edition. Paperback. ISBN 0-9709268-0-4 (Vol. III); 0-9709268-1-2 (three-volume set). The practical desk companion to the series, designed for fast attribution by reducing the material into clear line drawings, tables, and letterforms that let you match types, monograms, and control marks at a glance. Arranged ruler-by-ruler and by diagnostic devices, it runs from Maues and Azilises through Azes and related families, the Rajas and Satraps, countermarked and ?Parthian? issues, Gondophares and later Indo-Parthians, the Paratarajas, and the Western Satrap line, with the key reference charts at the end bringing together monograms and parallel alphabets for Greek, Kharosthi, Brahmi numerals, and Pahlavi. A genuinely useful benchbook that speeds up identification and helps keep attributions consistent across a notoriously complex series. As new, with bright covers and clean pages throughout.Estimate: AUD 150

Lot # 14052 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Indo-Scythian Coins and History, Volume I: An Analysis of the Coinage. R.C. Senior. Lancaster, PA and London, Classical Numismatic Group, 2001. Paperback. The opening volume of Senior?s three-volume study, setting out the historical background and a full chronological and typological analysis of Indo-Scythian and related coinages, with many attributions re-examined through hoard evidence, monograms, control letters, and changing weight standards. Coverage moves from Maues and associated regional issues through the Vonones and Spalirises families, Azilises, and the broad and complex Azes series, then continues with the Apraccharajas and Aspavarma, the wider ?Rajas and Satraps? period, Parthian-linked and countermarked issues, Gondophares and successors, and the southern satrapal lines, supported throughout by maps, figures, appendices, hoard tables, monogram lists, glossaries, concordances, and a substantial bibliography. A core working reference for attribution and historical study in Indo-Scythian, Indo-Parthian, and connected Indo-Greek and early Kushan numismatics. As new, with a bright cover and clean pages throughout.Estimate: AUD 250

Lot # 14051 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Indo-Scythian Coins and History, Volume II: The Illustrated Catalogue of Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian Coins. R.C. Senior. Lancaster, PA and London, Classical Numismatic Group, 2001, first edition. Paperback, 215 pages. ISBN 0-9636738-9-0 (Vol. II); 0-9709268-1-2 (three-volume set). The picture-atlas of the series, bringing together virtually every Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian type recorded by the author at publication, with the great majority of plates scanned directly from coins for consistent, easy comparison, supplemented by images from major museum and private holdings and important hoards. Arranged by rulers and issues, it is built for attribution, with systematic coverage of the Maues coinage, the Azilises and Azes series, the Vonones and Spalirises families, Apraccharajas and Aspavarma, the wider ?Rajas and Satraps? issues, Parthian-related types and countermarks, Gondophares and successors across key regions, and the Southern Satraps and related dynasties, all supported by practical tools including hoard summaries, monogram lists, glossary, appendices, and a full bibliography. A true bench reference for identification and cataloguing in a field where types, controls, and monograms can be notoriously complex. As new, with bright covers and clean pages throughout.Estimate: AUD 150

Lot # 14050 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian Coins in the Smithsonian Institution. Osmund Bopearachchi (Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1993). Hardcover with dust jacket, 143 pages with map and 41 fine plates, printed in India for the Smithsonian. A compact and very useful institutional catalogue of the Smithsonian holdings of Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian, and Indo-Parthian coinage, especially valuable for attribution and close comparison across these closely related and often complex series, with strong plate coverage that makes it an efficient working reference at the desk. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; lamination to the dust jacket lightly wrinkled as issued, 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

Lot # 14049 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Catalogue of Elymaean Coinage, ca. 147 B.C. to A.D. 228. P.A. van?t Haaff. Classical Numismatic Group, 2007, first edition. A long-needed modern study of the coinage of Elymais in southwest Iran under Parthian authority, moving well beyond the earlier foundations of de Morgan and Alram by setting out the rulers, mints, chronology, types, and metrology in one clear, workable framework. The catalogue is organised by dynastic phases from the Kamnaskirids through the Elymais Arsacid line, with concise commentary, typological descriptions, and plentiful illustrations, supported by practical appendices including concordances, die-link notes, and compiled weight and size data for day-to-day attribution. A core reference for Parthian and Near Eastern specialists, and still the book most collectors reach for when an Elymaean piece needs a firm placement. As new, with bright covers and clean, crisp pages.Estimate: AUD 250

Lot # 14048 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Ancient Bronze Coins of Asia Minor and the Levant from the Lindgren Collection, Volume I. Henry Clay Lindgren and Frank L. Kovacs (San Mateo, Chrysopylon Publications, 1985). A highly useful specialist reference devoted to the bronze coinages of Asia Minor and the Levant, forming the opening volume of the well known Ancient Coins from the Lindgren Collection series and valued for its practical catalogue format, broad regional coverage, and lasting usefulness in attribution and comparison across a difficult field of minor and provincial issues. An important working volume for collectors and cataloguers, especially helpful where smaller bronze series are concerned and standard references can be scattered or less accessible. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, cover is good for the age and years of use, 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

Lot # 14047 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Not Kosher: Forgeries of Ancient Jewish and Biblical Coins. Hardcover (January 15, 2005). A major specialist reference documenting the counterfeit landscape of ancient Jewish and Biblical coinage, illustrating and discussing more than 550 forged pieces, many produced specifically to deceive collectors and the market. Drawing on over 35 years of research and an extensive photographic archive, David Hendin sets out a practical diagnostic method for recognising spurious fabric, style, tooling, casting and striking characteristics, and repeating ?families? of forgeries, making the book valuable not only as a catalogue of known fakes but as a hands-on training manual for attribution and authentication. Particularly useful for dealers and advanced collectors, it records the breadth of false material encountered in the field and explains why even seemingly credible opinions have sometimes failed, providing a clear, photo-driven basis for identifying problem coins before money changes hands. Paper cover with light wear and shelf dust, 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 250

Lot # 14046 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War. Leo Mildenberg (Aarau, 1984). 396 pages with 44 plates, published as Typos VI, red cloth with dust jacket. The definitive corpus of the Bar Kokhba coinage, cataloguing 6,393 coins with 602 die couples and establishing the standard framework for attribution, die study, and further research into this major Jewish series. A fundamental scholarly reference, long valued for the precision of its corpus structure and its lasting importance for the study of one of the most historically charged and complex issues of ancient Jewish numismatics. Inscribed by the author to Arthur Houghton. 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

Lot # 14045 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. 260 Years of Ancient Jewish Coinage. Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld (Tel Aviv, Kol Printing Service Ltd., 1982). 317 pages, well illustrated throughout, in blue leatherette with dust jacket. A broad and practical survey of ancient Jewish coinage across roughly two and a half centuries, written as a useful reference for collectors and students, with plentiful illustrations that assist with quick identification and place the major series into their historical setting from the late Hasmoneans through the Herodian period and into the Roman era. A handy working volume for anyone seeking an accessible overview of this important field. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; dust jacket lightly worn, with an undecipherable 1982 dated inscription on the title page, 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

Lot # 14044 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Guide to Biblical Coins, Fifth Edition. David Hendin (2010). Hardcover. The fully revised and updated edition of Hendin?s bestselling standard reference for ancient Judaean and Biblical coinage, expanded to reflect new archaeological discoveries and the work of a new generation of specialists, and long established as the everyday attribution tool for collectors, dealers, and scholars in this field. This edition adds a complete illustrated catalogue of the Judaea Capta series, a concordance to other major references, extensive endnotes with sources and commentary, a full index including an index of Latin inscriptions, and updated research that deepens the historical and numismatic context while keeping the book practical for identification and catalogue use. Updated values by Herbert Kreindler, with improved graphics and photo composites that make the diagnostics and explanations easier to follow in hand. Paper cover with light wear and shelf dust, 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

Lot # 14043 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Guide to Biblical Coins, 4th Edition. David Hendin (2001). Hardcover, 512 pages, illustrated. The standard and most widely used reference in the field at the time of publication, this important fourth edition expanded Hendin?s well established numbering system with substantial new material and a greatly enlarged treatment of the series, listing more than 550 different coins and supported by 38 pages of photographic plates illustrating more than 500 coins and weights. Written for both beginning and advanced collectors, it remains an especially practical and authoritative desk reference for Biblical and ancient Jewish coinage, with valuations by Herbert Kreindler, and reflects the deep experience Hendin built over decades of study, writing, and field work in the subject. 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

Lot # 14042 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Guide to Biblical Coins, 4th Edition. David Hendin (Nyack, New York, Amphora, 2001). The expanded fourth edition of the most widely used practical reference for ancient Biblical and Jewish coinage, produced to serve both beginning and advanced collectors while preserving the familiar Hendin numbering system used in earlier editions. This edition is the most complete at the time of publication, listing more than 550 different coins with substantially enlarged text and significant new material, and it is especially strong as a hands-on attribution tool thanks to 38 pages of photographic plates illustrating more than 500 coins and weights. Long valued in the trade and by collectors as an everyday desk reference, it compiles decades of Hendin?s field experience and research, with valuations evaluated by the professional numismatist Herbert Kreindler, and remains one of the key gateways into the coinage of the Holy Land for collectors who want both clear identification and reliable context. Paper cover with light wear and shelf dust, 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

Lot # 14041 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Guide to Biblical Coins. David Hendin (New York, 1987). Hardcover, 204 pages with 16 plates plus illustrations in the text. A widely used and practical reference for Biblical and ancient Jewish coinage, valued for its clear attribution structure, sensible arrangement, and ease of use at the desk, making it a dependable working guide for collectors, students, and cataloguers alike. 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

Lot # 14040 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Guide to Ancient Jewish Coins. David Hendin (New York, Attic Books, 1976, first edition). Hardcover with dust jacket, 8vo, 134 pages, black and white illustrations, with values by Herbert Kreindler. An early and highly useful collector?s guide to the coinage of ancient Judaea and related biblical era issues, written to support practical attribution through clear descriptions and well chosen illustrations, and valued for bringing order and accessibility to a series that can be challenging for newcomers and specialists alike. Especially handy as a compact desk reference, it outlines the major types and rulers and provides collecting context alongside period market valuations, making it a solid snapshot of the field as it stood in the mid 1970s and a helpful companion to later, expanded Hendin works. Paper cover with light wear and shelf dust, 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

Lot # 14039 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Samarian Coinage. Shraga Qedar (1999). Hardcover with dust jacket, 160 pages, with 31 pages of strong photographic plates. The definitive modern reference for the coinage of ancient Samaria, developed from the work of the late Professor Ya?akov Meshorer in collaboration with Qedar, and cataloguing 224 different Samarian coin types in a clear and practical format that makes it highly useful for attribution, catalogue work, and wider background study. An important specialist reference, valued both for the strength of its photographic coverage and for the orderly presentation of a historically important and often difficult series. 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

Lot # 14038 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Samarian Coinage. Yaakov Meshorer and Shraga Qedar. Jerusalem, Israel Numismatic Society, 1999 (Numismatic Studies and Researches, Vol. IX). Large hardback in the original red dust jacket, 127 pages of text plus 31 full-page plates. The standard modern corpus for Samarian coinage of the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, laid out for accurate attribution with a clear numbering system, historical background, and detailed technical chapters on inscriptions and palaeography, types and prototypes, minting technique, the monetary system, and a carefully argued chronology. The catalogue is supported by useful tables and concordances, with an index for quick reference, and the plates are sharp and well scaled for close comparison of dies, fabric, and epigraphic detail. A very fresh copy, with a bright jacket, clean pages, and a firm, square binding.Estimate: AUD 300

Lot # 14037 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Oriental Coins and Their Values, Volume 2: The Ancient and Classical World, 600 B.C. to A.D. 650. Michael Mitchiner (Hawkins Publications, 1978, first edition). Hardcover, 760 pages, illustrated throughout. A massive and highly practical standard reference, ranging across an exceptionally broad span of eastern and related ancient coinages, with catalogue style coverage of fields seldom brought together in a single volume, including Hunnic and Scythian issues, Indo-Greek and Indo-Parthian, Persian and Sasanian, Arabian, Phoenician, Indian, and Chinese material, together with useful extension into adjacent areas such as Jewish and Roman provincial coinage where they intersect with the eastern world. An especially valuable working reference for identification, comparison, and broad numismatic research across multiple series. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; no dust jacket, 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 500

Lot # 14036 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Methods of Chemical and Metallurgical Investigation of Ancient Coinage. E. T. Hall and D. M. Metcalf (eds.) (London, Royal Numismatic Society, 1972). RNS Special Publication No. 8, small 4to, viii, 446 pages with figures, charts, tables, and 20 plates, in original red cloth with dust jacket. A scarce and important collection of specialist studies on the scientific examination of coinage, bringing together a wide range of analytical methods and case studies across periods and metals, with contributions addressing metal-content analysis, surface silvering, lead isotopes, specific gravity testing of gold, fluorescence and activation analysis, electron-probe microanalysis, alloy hardness and brittleness, Sutton Hoo gold, Merovingian gold standards and hoards, Roman imperial silver and aes, Antoniniani as historical evidence, and the effects of corrosion and time on analytical results. A cornerstone reference for the numismatist using metallurgical evidence in research, attribution, and deeper technical study, and increasingly difficult to locate in commerce. 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

Lot # 14035 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Coins and the Archaeologist. John Casey and Richard Reece (eds.) (London, Seaby, 1988, second edition, originally published as BAR 4 in 1974). Hardcover, 306 pages with 8 plates, charts, in text illustrations, notes, and index. A very useful collection of 14 papers examining the relationship between numismatic evidence and archaeological context, with particularly strong treatment of site finds, hoards, clustering patterns, counterfeits, and dating problems across Britain and beyond. With contributions by Anne Robertson, Richard Reece, George Boon, J. P. C. Kent, D. M. Metcalf, and others, it remains an important working reference for anyone using coins as archaeological data rather than simply as isolated objects. 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

Lot # 14034 - 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.Estimate: AUD 100

Lot # 14033 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Monumental Coins: Buildings and Structures on Ancient Coinage. Marvin Tameanko (KP Books, 1999). Hardcover, 247 pages. A richly illustrated thematic reference exploring ancient coin types that depict architecture and the built environment, from temples, shrines, arches, gates, and city walls to public buildings and commemorative structures, bringing together clear photographs and supporting line drawings that make the designs easy to study and compare. Especially useful for collectors who build sets by reverse theme or city, it helps identify architectural types, understand what is being shown, and appreciate how civic pride, imperial propaganda, and local identity were expressed through buildings on coinage, while remaining an enjoyable browse even beyond strict attribution work. 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

Lot # 14032 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography, Illustrated by Antiquities and Coinage. William Smith (London, B. A. Seaby Ltd., 1972). Hardcover, 832 pages, illustrated. A substantial and highly useful classical reference, of particular value to numismatists, combining biography, mythology, and geography with antiquities and coinage to assist in the identification of figures, places, and mythological subjects appearing on ancient coins. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing clear age and use; overall the book is in VG condition, clean internally and firmly bound. 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

Lot # 14031 - EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. A Survey of Primitive Money: The Beginnings of Currency. A. Hingston Quiggin. Ocala, Florida, First Impressions Printing, 1992 reprint of the Methuen (London) 1949 first edition. 8vo, textured cream printed wraps, illustrated throughout with in-text figures by Daphne Kennett, 34 monochrome plates, and 4 folding maps, with a foreword by Charles J. Opitz and the original introduction by A.C. Haddon retained. A classic study of ?odd and curious? money in its real setting, surveying exchange media from shells, beads and teeth to salt, cloth, cattle, manillas, ring money, and tool and weapon forms, always focusing on how and why these currencies worked within society rather than treating them as curiosities. Broad geographic coverage spans Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas, with useful discussion of circulation, ceremony, bridewealth and compensation, and the overlap between traditional monies and coined currency in contact periods. The plates and folding maps give strong visual support, while the text is rich in citations and remains a dependable foundation for identification and study. Bright, clean copy with only light handling, clean pages, and a small, neat tape reinforcement inside the front hinge.Estimate: AUD 100

Lot # 14030 - BYZANTINE. Sceatta List by Tony Abramson, second edition, hardcover, 2000. A useful and much respected reference for the early Anglo-Saxon sceatta series, adding more than one hundred new varieties of early pennies and building on the work of Rigold, Metcalf, Blackburn and Gannon. Abramson presents a difficult and highly varied field in a clear, collector-friendly manner, with generous illustrations, much of the material drawn from his own collection now housed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The volume offers practical guidance on organisation, dating, design, scarcity and values, making it a valuable working reference for collectors, curators, cataloguers, detectorists and dealers. An important book for anyone handling seventh- and eighth-century Anglo-Saxon coinage, and increasingly desirable, with the cheapest Amazon copy noted at about US$185. About new.Estimate: AUD 250

Lot # 14029 - BYZANTINE. Anglo-Saxon Counterfeits, Fakes, Forgeries and Facsimiles, A.D. 600-1066 by Tony Abramson. A major specialised reference devoted to counterfeit, copied, replicated and forged coinage of the Anglo-Saxon period, covering material from contemporary imitative pieces through to later replicas and modern fakes. Fully illustrated with more than 3,000 images, the work examines the types, styles and inspirations behind this important and often difficult field of early medieval numismatics, making it a valuable guide for collectors, scholars, dealers and anyone concerned with authentication or the study of Anglo-Saxon coinage. A significant and practical reference on a subject rarely treated in such depth. About new.Estimate: AUD 150

Lot # 14028 - BYZANTINE. Catalogue of Late Roman Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: From Arcadius and Honorius to the Accession of Anastasius (Dumbarton Oaks Collection Series). Philip Grierson and Melinda Mays (Washington, D.C., Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992). Large 4to (28.5 cm), xv, 499 pp. A major institutional catalogue and the first fully illustrated presentation of the Dumbarton Oaks holdings of late Roman and early Byzantine imperial coinage for the period from Arcadius and Honorius through to the accession of Anastasius, published in the established Dumbarton Oaks series format and intended as a working reference for scholarship and attribution. The volume opens with a substantial introduction that sets the coinage in context, treating the historical development of the issues and providing clear guidance on iconography, mint organization, and the monetary system, followed by the fully illustrated catalogue entries that make the collection especially useful for comparative study, die and type checking, and precise identification across mints and reigns during a complex transitional era. 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 150

Lot # 14027 - BYZANTINE. Byzantine Coins & Their Values by David Sear, Pub by Seaby 1987, reprinted 2006, 526 pgs. Lists & describes 2645 coins with high percentage photographed. Also includes photos of 93 forged Byzantine coins. Still the standard catalogue even if prices are somewhat out of date! New.Estimate: AUD 100

Lot # 14026 - BYZANTINE. Catalog of the Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum (Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum), Two Volumes in One. Warwick Wroth (London, Trustees of the British Museum). Hardcover. The classic British Museum catalogue for imperial Byzantine coinage, presented in the traditional British Museum corpus format and still valued as a useful working reference for type comparison, older citations, and general catalogue work across the Byzantine series. Offered here in a combined two-volumes-in-one edition, it remains a dependable scholarly tool for collectors, researchers, and cataloguers who continue to work with the older standard literature. 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

Lot # 14025 - BYZANTINE. Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Vols. I-III (in five parts), together with Coinage and Money in the Byzantine Empire 1081-1261. Alfred R. Bellinger and Philip Grierson (eds.), Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., 1966-1969, with Michael F. Hendy (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969). Complete six-volume folio set in the original decorated blue cloth with gilt lettering, well illustrated with numerous plates of coins, with Hendy?s volume also including folded maps. A major and highly desirable Byzantine reference set, bringing together the standard Dumbarton Oaks catalogue sequence from Anastasius I to Nicephorus III across Vol. I, Anastasius I to Maurice, Vol. II:1, Phocas and Heraclius, Vol. II:2, Heraclius Constantine to Theodosius III, Vol. III:1, Leo III to Michael III, and Vol. III:2, Basil I to Nicephorus III, with Hendy extending the monetary history from 1081 to 1261, so that the principal Byzantine series stands together on the shelf in one substantial working group. Extremely rare to find all six volumes offered together as a complete set, and especially desirable in this form for the collector, researcher, or specialist library. Each volume bears David Allen?s personal library stamp. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; overall the set 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

Lot # 14024 - BYZANTINE. Byzantine Coins: The World of Numismatics. P. D. Whiting (New York, G. P. Putnam?s Sons, 1973, first United States publication). 311 pages, with full page plates throughout, many in colour, published in the World of Numismatics series, with appendix and extensive index. A well illustrated and approachable survey of Byzantine coinage, designed to introduce the series through clear photography and practical commentary, and especially useful as a bridge between a general history of the Byzantine Empire and the collector?s need to recognise denominations, iconography, and the main imperial sequences. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; with some edge staining, 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

Lot # 14023 - BYZANTINE. Byzantine Coins: The World of Numismatics. P. D. Whiting (New York, G. P. Putnam?s Sons, 1973, first United States publication). 311 pages, with full page plates throughout, many in colour, published in the World of Numismatics series, with appendix and extensive index. A well illustrated and accessible survey of Byzantine coinage, offering a clear introduction to the series through strong photography and practical commentary, and particularly useful as a bridge between the general history of the Byzantine Empire and the collector?s need to recognise denominations, iconography, and the main imperial sequences. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; with some edge staining, 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

Lot # 14022 - BYZANTINE. Byzantine Coins. Philip Grierson (London, Methuen, 1982). 411 pages, 95 plates, with maps and bibliography, small quarto, green cloth with dust jacket. A major single volume survey by one of the leading authorities in Byzantine numismatics, combining a clear historical and numismatic overview with strong plate coverage that makes it genuinely useful for identification, context, and reference across the Byzantine series. Scholarly yet highly practical, it remains an important working reference for collectors, researchers, and cataloguers seeking a dependable guide to the coinage of the Byzantine Empire in one substantial volume. 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

Lot # 14021 - BYZANTINE. Byzantine Coins and Their Values, 2nd edition. David R. Sear (1987). Hardcover. A widely used and highly practical one volume catalogue covering Byzantine coinage from Anastasius I, A.D. 491-518, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, listing and valuing more than 2,250 coins in gold, silver, and bronze and illustrated with over 600 photographs. An especially useful working reference for collectors, dealers, and cataloguers, offering broad coverage of the full imperial series in a clear and accessible format. 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 150

Lot # 14020 - BYZANTINE. Byzantine and Early Medieval Western European Coins in the Hunter Coin Cabinet, University of Glasgow (Hunterian Coin Collection, Part 6). J. D. Bateson and I. G. Campbell (London, Spink, 1998). 180 pages, 29 plates, blue cloth with dust jacket. A substantial institutional catalogue of the Hunter Coin Cabinet, describing 569 Byzantine coins and 156 early medieval Western European coins, with the latter heavily represented by Ostrogothic and Merovingian issues, and reflecting the long standing strength of the Hunterian series in Byzantine gold. The catalogue is especially valuable for its provenance and collection history, including material from the Joseph de France collection acquired by William Hunter in Vienna in 1782, and for its coverage of rare, unpublished, and in some cases unique specimens, presented in the consistent scholarly format used across the Hunterian published series. The illustration program is notably strong, with all of the early medieval Western European coins illustrated, together with the Byzantine gold and silver issues and a representative selection of the Byzantine bronze, making the volume a dependable working reference for attribution, comparative study, and research into both Byzantine and post-Roman western coinages. Paper cover with light wear and shelf dust, 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

Lot # 14019 - BYZANTINE. Western and Provincial Byzantine Coins: Vandals, Ostrogoths, Lombards and the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond. (1966 reprint). 344 pages with introduction and 43 plates. A practical and long valued handbook devoted to the western and provincial issues of the Byzantine and post Roman world, covering the Vandal, Ostrogothic, and Lombard series together with the successor empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea, and Trebizond. Especially useful as a straightforward identification reference, it offers strong plate material for quick comparison, attribution, and general desk use across a field that is not easily brought together in one volume. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; pictorial dust jacket torn and rubbed with edge wear and price clipped, covers lightly soiled, 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

Lot # 14018 - BYZANTINE. Byzantine numismatics group lot of 4 books, spanning a very broad sweep of the Eastern Empire from the age of Constantine to the late Palaeologan period. A strong and useful working group bringing together studies of excavation material, mint structure, reform coinage, and late Byzantine billon, and together offering practical value for attribution, chronology, and research across a remarkably wide span of the Byzantine series. Included are: (1) Byzantine Coins, George E. Bates, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, a useful study volume connecting the Sardis excavations with the Byzantine coin material; (2) Moneta Imperii Byzantini, Part I, Robert Gobl (Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1973), the important tabular reconstruction of mint structure, designed for systematic reference and chronological work across the Byzantine coinage; (3) The Pattern of Bronze Coinage under Constantine I, J. P. C. Kent, Doris Stockwell Memorial Papers No. 3, reprinted from the Numismatic Chronicle (1957), a classic focused study of the reform era bronze patterns and their organisation; and (4) The Billon Trachea of Michael VIII Palaeologos, 1258-1282, S. Bendall and P. J. Donald (A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd.), a specialised handbook on the principal billon trachy issues of the restored empire. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; overall the books are 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

Lot # 14017 - ROMAN. The Roman Imperial Coinage, Volume VIII: The Family of Constantine I. J. P. C. Kent (London, Spink & Son Ltd., 1981). A key late-volume RIC reference and the first comprehensive study of the coinage of the House of Constantine, covering a decisive phase in which the late empire?s monetary system moves away from the older base billon tradition, with important discussion of mint marks, officina organisation, and the experimentation in module and weight that defines this difficult period of the fourth century. 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 150

Lot # 14016 - ROMAN. Roman Coins & Their Values - Vol IV, the tetrarchies and the rise of the house of Constantine. The collapse of Paganism and the triumph of Christianity, Diocletian to Constantine I, AD 284-337. By David Sear, Pub by Spink 2011, 552 pgs. Describes & values (3 grades) 4405 coins with illustrations throughout. Essential reference. Slight scuffing to the dust jacket, contents new.Estimate: AUD 120

Lot # 14015 - ROMAN. The Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC), Volume VII: Constantine I and Licinius, A.D. 313?337. P. M. Bruun, with C. H. V. Sutherland and R. A. G. Carson as editors (1972 reprint of the 1966 edition). Hardcover in green cloth, xxxi, 778 pages plus 24 plates. The standard worldwide reference for the coinage of Constantine I and Licinius, presenting the imperial issues classified by mint and chronology, and providing the structural framework used by collectors, scholars, and auction cataloguers for attribution and catalogue work across this complex period of monetary reform, multiple mints, and rapidly changing imperial titulature and reverse programs. The volume opens with a substantial general introduction explaining the mint system, monetary structure, typology, and the arrangement of the reigns, and is supported by practical indexes of types, legends, and related finding aids that make it far more functional for research than older legend-first systems, allowing coins to be located and understood within their proper mint and issue context. Paper cover with light wear and shelf dust, top and sides slightly browned, 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

Lot # 14014 - ROMAN. Roman Bronze Coins (covering the seventy-year transition from Diocletian?s reform era to Constantine?s long rule). A practical, single-volume guide that uses late Roman bronze coinage to trace the visible shift from pagan iconography to increasingly prominent Christian symbols as the new religion became embedded in state life. Opening with Diocletian?s empire-wide coin reform and his failed attempt at price controls, it moves into the fourth century and shows how the restructured imperial system set the stage for Constantine the Great and the Christian transformation. Designed for hands-on attribution, it offers multiple pathways for identifying and cataloging coins, including charts to separate rulers and personages with shared names and titles, tools for working from reverse legends or reverse scenes (with a thematic iconography section), notes on expanded reverse varieties marked by an asterisk before the catalogue number, and detailed guidance for dating by mint and control marks (exergue and field), with commentary on the possible meaning of letters and symbols and mint-by-mint pages that narrow issues by process of elimination. A historical framework links dated issues to events via an opening history chapter, while Appendix A provides a ready Coin Attribute Reference Chart for dates, names, denominations, weights, and related identifiers. High quality example. Paper cover with tiny tears, original book cover 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

Lot # 14013 - ROMAN. Coins in History: A Survey of the Coinage from the Reform of Diocletian to the Latin Monetary Union. (Putnam, 1969). Hardcover, 251 pages. A broad and readable historical survey tracing the development of coinage from the reforms of Diocletian through the medieval and early modern periods to the age of national currencies, concluding with the nineteenth century Latin Monetary Union. Particularly useful for the way it treats coinage not simply as a series of types, but as evidence for political change, trade, monetary policy, and the wider economic history of the societies that produced it. 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 60

Lot # 14012 - ROMAN. Roman Coins & Their Values - Vol III, the accession of Maximinus I to the death of Carinus, AD 235-285. By David Sear, Pub Spink 2005, 536 pgs. Describes & values (3 grades) 4432 coins with illustration throughout. Essential reference. Scuffing to the dust jacket, contents as new.Estimate: AUD 110

Lot # 14011 - ROMAN. Le preziose patine dei sesterzi di Roma imperiale (The Superb Patinas of the Sestertii of Imperial Rome). Elio Biaggi (Italy, 1992). Large format colour plate book, 300 pages illustrating 735 Roman sestertii in full colour, bilingual in Italian and English, hardbound in black leatherette with slipcase. A striking and highly useful visual reference devoted to the remarkable patinas found on Roman imperial sestertii, illustrating the full range of surfaces from so called Tiber patinas to deep greens, reds, and related cabinet tones across the series from Augustus to Postumus. Especially valuable for collectors and specialists interested in bronze surfaces, eye appeal, and comparative study, it remains an impressive plate work and an increasingly desirable reference in its own right. An example appeared in CNG Auction 410, lot 742, hammering at $360 excluding the buyer?s fee. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; slipcase with light handling wear, 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 300

Lot # 14010 - ROMAN. Le Monnayage de l?Atelier de Lyon, de la r?ouverture de l?atelier par Aur?lien ? la mort de Carin (fin 274-mi 285). Pierre Bastien (Numismatique Romaine, Essais, Recherches et Documents IX, Wetteren, Belgique, Editions Numismatique Romaine, 1976). A specialist mint study of the Lyon atelier across the decisive years of the late third century, treating the coinage systematically and providing a solid working framework for attribution, sequencing, and historical context from the reopening of the mint under Aurelian through to the death of Carinus. An important and practical reference for the Aurelianic and post Aurelian bronze series, and a useful desk tool for anyone working closely on the complex output of Lyon in this period. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; overall the book is in VG condition, internally clean and sound. 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