Lot 4317

Description

(Rosen), Waggoner, Nancy M., Early Greek Coins, from the Collection of Jonathan P. Rosen, 1983, slip cased, Ancient Coins in North American Collections, No.1. ii + 55 pp., 28 plates, listing and illustrating 770 mostly Achaic Greek coins; Thompson, Margaret, Alexander's Drachm Mints II: Lampsacus and Abydus, American Numismatic Society (Numismatic Studies No.19), New York, 1991, 77pps, 34 plates; Thompson, Margaret; Morkholm, Otto and Kraay, Colin M., An Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards, International Numismatic Commission by American Numismatic Society, New York, 1973, 408pp.; Metcalf, William E, The Cistophori of Hadrian: American Numismatic Society (Numismatic Studies No.15), New York, 1980, 164pps, 31 plates; together with The Silver Coinage of Cappadocia, Vespasian - Commodus (NN&M 166), ANS, New York, 1996, 173pp, 54 plates; Troxell, Hyla A., The Coinage of the Lycian League, (NN & M No.162), American Numismatic Society, New York, 1982, 255 + xvii pp., 44 plates. Most with hard covers and all in new condition. (6)

The first an important Collection of Greek Coins and an indispensible work and reference. Noted to illustrate many tiny silver fractional pieces. The second a standard work on this coinage from these mints, a listing of all known published examples of the coinage of Alexander the Great from Lampsacus and Abydus.