Lot 2551

Description

Sear, David, R., The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27 B.C., 360 + xxxii pp., 435 coin illustrations throughout, Spink, London, 1998. As new, most important, with dust jacket.

This is an important new major text in English published on this period of coinage of the Roman Imperators, a period of violent transition of the Roman State undera Senate to a military autocracy under Augustus. The numismatic evidence plays an important role in chronicling the events. David Sear the author is the author of the most sussessful publications for collectors of Roman, Greek and Byzantine coins.