Lot 540

Description

(Byzantine), Ratto, Rodolfo, Monnaies Byzantines et D'Autres Pays Contemporaines a L'Epoque Byzantine..., Lugano, 9 April 1930, (4), 151 pp, 2701 lots, 68 plates, prices realised added in. Reimpression of the original edition by J. Schulman, 1959, Amsterdam; Boutin, Serge, Collection NK, Monnaies des empires de Byzance et des Etats Contemporains, texte and planches editions, in two volumes, A.G. van der Dussen, Wettenen, 1983, 176pp and 73 plates; Hunt, William Herbert, Sotheby's, New York, The William Herbert Bunker Hunt Collection, Highly Important Byzantine Coins, December 5 & 6, 1990, 300pps, lots 962, almost every lot illustrated, with prices realised list, two colour plates, hardbound with colour dustjacket. All books are important to collectors and students of Byzantine coins, very fine. (4).

The first an important sale catalogue that is used as a reference in its own right on Byzantine coins, the second book describes a collection of 1432 coins all of which are illustrated. It includes many rarities and rarely illustrated issues. Both books are most impoortant for the collector of Byzantine coins. Hunt is Part 4 of the greatest family collection of ancient coins ever sold, this is probably the greatest collection of Byzantine coins ever sold in one sale, a most elaborate catalogue again with spectacular colour photography.