Numismatic Literature

Lot 2439    SESSION 8 (Thursday at 2.30pm)    Numismatic Literature

Estimate $200
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SOLD $200

(DEWING), Mildenberg, Leo and Hurter, Silvia, The Arthur S. Dewing Collection of Greek Coins, 1985, 2 vols. text and plates in slip cased, Ancient Coins in North American Collections, No. 6. xii + 194 pp., 142 plates, listing and illustrating 2797 coins; (Rosen), Waggoner, Nancy M., Early Greek Coins, from the Collection of Jonathan P. Rosen, 1983, slip cased, Ancient Coins in North American Collections, No. 5. iv + 55 pp., 28 plates, listing and illustrating 770 mostly Achaic Greek coins; Arnold-Biucchi, Carmen., The Randazzo Hoard 1980 and Sicilian Chronology in the Early Fifth Century B.C., Numismatic Studies No. 18, American Numismatic Society, New York, 1980, 77 pp. 20 plates. All hard covers and as new. (4)

The Dewing collection of Greek coins is an indispensible work and reference. Noted to illustrate and list 57 Syracuse decadrachms. The Rosen collection was noted to illustrate many tiny silver fractional pieces. The Randazzo hoard of some 539 tetradrachms is one of the largest and best studied hoards of this period of Sicilian coinage. The hoard has coins from the following mints: Rhegion (10, see one important example in this sale), Akragas (8), Gela (29), Katane (29), Leontinoi (14), Messana (136), Naxos (5) and Syracuse (308, see an important example in this sale). The book examines Sicilian chronology in light of this and other hoards, making the publication the best study to date on this period.