Ancient numismatics

Proceedings of the Study Meeting on: The pre-Roman coinage of northern Italy. Metal supply, minting, circulation, Bordighera, 16-17 September 1994, International Institute of Ligurian Studies, Bordighera 1996, pp. 365, richly illustrated, 27 cm, br. and. with dust jacket.

At the head of the title page: International Institute of Ligurian Studies, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, School of Specialization in Archaeology, Municipality of Milan, Civic Numismatic Collections.

In excellent condition.

Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Istituzione antiquario-numismatica o sia Introduzione allo studio delle antiche medaglie, at the expense of Venanzio Monaldini Libraro al Corso, in the printing house of Giovanni Zempel, in Rome 1772, pp. XXXII, 487 with a marvelous frontispiece in black and red, a large allegorical vignette in copperplate engraving by Alessio Giardoni, finely crafted woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and initials, 3 splendid copper-engraved folding plates with 30 figures of coins on the front and back and 1 recto only, 20 cm, beautiful contemporary half-parchment binding, three silk bookmarks, titles and decorations on the spine, boards in fine marbled paper, artistically sprayed edges.

First edition of this classic of numismatic literature, dedicated to the foundations of the discipline. The work offers a broad overview of Greek and Roman coins, accompanied by a detailed list of abbreviations. Of particular interest are also the last two chapters: "Of medals due to defective coinage" and "Of false medals and how they can be distinguished from the real ones".

Traces of use on the plates, slight foxing, otherwise a pleasant copy in good condition.

The Po valley drachmas and other Celtic coins in the Civic Museum of Novara, edited by Marino Colombo, Francesco Giannoccaro, Presentation by Andrea Pautasso, Piedmont Region, pp. 44 including 16 tables of coins, richly illustrated, 23 cm.

On the cover: Municipality of Novara, Department of Culture and Museums.

Publication of considerable interest for the study of the examined coins.

In perfect condition. Extremely rare.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Italia, Agrigento, Regional Archaeological Museum, Fund of the former Civic Museum and other collections of the Medal Collection, edited by Maria Caccamo Caltabiano, Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa 1999, pp. 87 including 36 plates with text facing each other, 38 cm, beautiful all-cloth binding with gold titles on the spine and front cover.

In perfect condition. Extremely rare.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Volume VI. The Lewis Collection in Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Part II, The Greek Imperial Coins, Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press and Spink and Son, Oxford 1992, pp. VI, 24 tables with facing text, 39 cm, full cloth binding with gilt titles on spine and front cover.

Small blind stamp of an extinct library in the lower margin of the title page.

In perfect condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Volume VI, The Lewis Collection in Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Part I, The Greek and Hellenistic coins (with Britain and Parthia), published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press and Spink and Son, London 1972, pp . 8, 10 of indices, 24 tables with facing text, 39 cm, half cloth binding ed.

Minimal traces of use, otherwise in very good condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, vol. V, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Part IV, Paeonia-Thessaly, published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press and Spink and Son, London 1981, 69-82 pl. with facing text, 38 cm, half cloth binding ed.

Handwritten title on the spine.

In excellent condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, vol. V, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Part III, Macedonia, published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press and Spink and Son, London 1976, 41-68 plates. with facing text, 38 cm, half cloth binding ed.

Handwritten title on the spine.

In excellent condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, The Collection of the American Numismatic Society, Part 6, Palestine-South Arabia, The American Numismatic Society, New York 1981, pp. X, 54 plates. with facing text, 39 cm, card. and.

Handwritten title on the spine.

In excellent condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Collection of the American Numismatic Society, Part 6, Palestine-South Arabia, The American Numismatic Society, New York 1981, pp. X, 54 tables with facing text, 39 cm, full cloth binding with gilt titles on the front cover.

In perfect condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, The collection of the American Numismatic Society, Part 5, Sicily III: Syracuse-Siceliotes, The American Numismatic Society, New York 1988, 45 plates. with facing text, 39 cm, card. and.

In excellent condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, The collection of the American Numismatic Society, Part 2, Lucania, The American Numismatic Society, New York 1972, 38 plates. with facing text, 39 cm, br. and.

Small ownership signature on the title page, handwritten title on the spine in elegant handwriting.

In excellent condition. Rare.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Sweden I:2, Sammlung Eric von Post, Kungl. Myntkabinettet, Stockholm 1995, pp. IX, 33 tables. with facing text, richly illustrated, 31 cm, full cloth binding ed. with gold titles on the spine and front cover.

In excellent condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Sweden I, The Collection of his late majesty King Gustav VI Adolf, The Fred Forbat Collection, Kungl, Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien, Stockholm 1974, pp. 49, richly illustrated, 39 cm, br. and.

Handwritten title on the spine.

In excellent condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Romanorum Italia, Milan, Civiche raccolta numismatice, Giulio-Claudii, edited by Rodolfo Martini, 3 volumes, Municipality of Milan, Culture Department, Milan 1990, pp. 576 in total including 169 plates of coins with text on the facing page, 30 cm, ed. card.

Volume I: Augustus-Tiberius, pp. 224 including 75 coin plates with text opposite.

Volume II: Caius-Claudius, pp. 225-384 comprising 76-126 coin plates with facing text.

Volume III: Nero, pp. 385-576 comprising 127-169 coin plates with facing text.

The three volumes constitute all the works published for the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

In excellent condition. Uncommon set.

Sylloge Nummorum Romanorum Italia, Milan, Civiche raccolta numismatice, Res Publica, Part II, CRA 69/4a-285/1 (nn. 516-1292), edited by Novella Vismara, Municipality of Milan, Culture Department, Milan 1994, pp. 182 including 71 plates of coins with text on the facing page, 30 cm, cardboard and

In excellent condition.

Sylloge Nummorum Romanorum Italia, Milan, Civiche raccolta numismatice, Res Publica, Part I, CRA 4/1a-65/5 (nn. 1-515), edited by Novella Vismara, Municipality of Milan, Culture Department, Milan 1994, pp. 148 including 56 plates of coins with text on the facing page, 30 cm, ed. card.

Small note on the frontispiece.

Minimal traces of use on the spine, otherwise in excellent condition.

Pasquale Attianese, Greek Calabria, 3 volumes, De Luca Editore, Santa Severina 1974-1980, 1388 pp. in total, richly illustrated, 25 cm, hardback with titles and gold decorations on the spine and front cover.

Volume I: Brettion, Kaulonia, Cosentia, Kroton, Medma, Noyceria, Pandosia, Petelia, Skyllation, Temsa, Terina, 1974, pp. 400.

Volume II: Aminea, Hipponion, Valentia, Laos, Lokron, Kasarium, Mystia and Hypporon, Ser... or Mer..., Peripolium, Sybaris, Siris, Thurium, 1977, pp. 440.

Volume III: Thurium (Part II), Copy, Rhegium, Update with further unpublished coins, coin pondometry and archaeo-numismatic studies of the Calabrian mints, graphs of the location of mints and areas of finds, 1980, pp. 548 with maps and folded plate.

Limited edition of only 300 numbered copies, each volume bears its own number on the back of the title page and is embellished with the signatures of the author and the publisher.

In excellent condition. Very rare.

Arthur Sambon, Les monnaies antiques de l'Italie. Etrurie, Ombrie, Picenum, Samnium, Campanie (Cumes et Naples), Forni Editore, Bologna 1969, pp. 467, 5 plates, 25 cm, br. and.

Facsimile reprint of the 1903 Paris edition.

Ownership signature repeated on the first and last cards, small annotation on the spine, otherwise in more than good condition.

Leslaw Morawiecki, Political propaganda in the coinage of the late Roman Republic (44-43 BC), Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich, Wroclaw 1983, pp. 108, 8 tables. 24 cm, br. and.

From the Index: The use of political propaganda in the struggle for power in the year 44 BC; Political propaganda and numismatic sources; Issues struck during Caesar's lifetime; Posthumous issues of Caesar; The roles of the army and of propaganda in the formation of political positions in the year 43 BC; The Illyric issue of C. Antonius; Spanish and Sicilian issues of the Pompeian faction; Mark Antony's Gallic issues; M. Antony's and M. Lepidus' issues of denarii; Quinarii issues of M. Antony and M. Lepidus, and provincial coins; Issues of quattuorviri acre,argento,auro,flando feriundo (Senatorial issues); etc.

Insignificant traces of use on the paperback, otherwise in excellent condition. Very rare.

Sibrium, Centre for Prehistoric and Archaeological Studies. Civic Museums of Villa Mirabello, Varese 1973-75, pp. VIII, 537, richly illustrated, cm 24, softcover ed.

Series of studies and documentation founded by Mario Bertolone, vol. XII.

The volume includes the important studies by Andrea Pautasso: The pre-Roman monetary circulation and the Salluvii emissions in the territories of Ticino and The Po Valley coinage and the problems of the Lepontian emissions.

The following contributions are also present in the text: Tibiletti G., The Civilization of Ticino: between geography and history; Tibiletti Bruno MG, Epigraphic-linguistic problems of pre-Roman Ticino and Lombardy; Merati A., Historical toponymy of the territories overlooking the shores of Lake Maggiore and the Ticino River (Ligurian and Gallic contributions); Mira Bonomi A., Current situation of the protohistoric settlement of the Golasecca culture in the western area; Soffredi A., The Mattana, Bellini, Visconti collections of Somma Lombardo (Varese); Primas M., The first Iron Age in the Canton of Ticino and in Mesolcina; Leoni M., Tradition and reality of Gallic swords; Mesali M., Anthropological interest in the study of cremated remains (observations on the sidelines of a study on Castelletto Ticino; Crivelli A., The relations between Pavia and the Canton of Ticino; Donati P., Topographical persistence of settlements and necropolises; Mirabella Roberti M., A late Roman building along the Ticino in Pavia; Peroni A., Clarifications on the ancient walls of Lomello; Perkins BW, Excavations in the Civic Tower – Pavia; Aguzzi F., The basins of the Civic Tower; Martinola G., Greeting to the Conference in Lugano; Storti Giani L., A memory of Abbot Giani; Doro A., A hoard of bronzes in Pinerolo; De Minerbi L., Clay ritual tablet from Lavagnone; Mira Bonomi A., Early Bronze and Early Iron Age deposit in Arolo; Nava ML, Aspects and problems of the “Daunie” stele; Astini P., Value of the engraved boulders in the pre-Alpine valleys; Rittatore Vonwiller F.-Negroni Catacchio N.-Arslan EA, “Golasecca III” or “La Tène Padano”?; Dejana A.-Sironi PG, Castelseprio - Prehistory and Archaeology - Today; Leoni M., Archaeology of the horses of San Marco; Corrain C., Ancient human skeletal remains from Castione della Presolana (Bergamo); Baj N.-Astini P., III Palethnological Expedition to Tenerè (Niger); Mirabella Roberti M., Investigations and method in the excavation of Castelseprio; Mazza S., The Baptistery of Baveno and some considerations on that of Riva San Vitale; Milani F.-Toscani X., The collection of documents relating to the Civic Tower existing in the Municipal Archives of Pavia.

Very light traces of use on the cover, otherwise in excellent condition. Very rare.

Antonio Vessella, Corpus Nummorum Italicorum, Tomus primus, Samnium, Frentania, Sabina et Regio Inter Meridiem et Orientem Latii, Edizioni ASMV, Piedimonte Matese 1998, pp. 80, ill., 11 plates, 24 cm, br. and. with dust jacket.

The first volume of this work was the only one published.

In perfect condition.

Hyla A. Troxell, The coinage of the Lycian League, The American Numismatic Society, New York 1982, pp. 19, 255, 44 plates, 24 cm, full cloth binding with gold titles on the spine and front cover.

Series: Numismatic notes and monographs, 162.

The volume offers an in-depth analysis of the most significant hoards for the study of the coinage of the Lycian League. The text includes the cataloguing of approximately 1825 specimens, accompanied by an exhaustive survey of the minting locations. Also included are a systematic index of the issues divided by mint and useful appendices dedicated to topics such as incorrect attributions, forgeries, etc.

In perfect condition.

Münzkabinett, sn, Bern 1966, various pagination (but pp. 150), richly illustrated, 24 cm, softcover ed.

At the head of the title page: Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historischen Museums XLIII und XLIV, Jahrgang 1963 und 1964.

Index: H. Jucker, Ein Aureus und der Kopf des Kaisers Galba; B. Kapossy, Die Folles im Münzkabinett des Bernischen Historischen Museums; HU Geiger, Unedierte Berner Münzen II; HU Geiger, Neuerwerbung von Berner Münzen; H. Stettler, Zur Sammlung mexikanischer Münzen und Medaillen Dr. Juan Kaiser; Rubrik: Münzkabinett, Zuwachverzeichnis.

In excellent condition. Rare.