Lot 2490

Description

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Israel I, The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins (editors Arthur Houghton and Arnold Spaer with the assistance of Catharine Lorber). Jerusalem, 1998, 389 pp., 189 plates. With dust jacket as new.

The Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Spaer or Israel I (SNG Spaer) is in English and is the largest and most complete reference of all the SNG's that list and illustrate Seleucid coins. Of great importance for attributing bronze coins of this kingdom and the latest in mint, chronology and other references. It includes a most extensive bibliography on Seleucid coinage. It is a very important sylloge, indispensible to any collector interested in this coinage. There are in all 2919 Seleucid coins illustrated and described.