Lot 2779

Description

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Volume III, The Lockett Collection, (catalogued by E. S. G. Robinson), Part I, Spain to Italy, (Gold and Silver) (12 plates); Part II Sicily - Thrace (Gold and Silver) (12 plates); Part III Macedonia - Aegina (Gold and Silver) (12 plates); Part IV Peloponnese - Aeolis (Gold and Silver) (12 plates); Part V Lesbos - Cyrenaica: Addenda (Gold and Silver) (16 plates): The second impression set issued 1957 as an identical reprint of the original 5 parts (1938-1949), 64pps, 64 plates, London, for the British Academy. Nearly as new and a fine set, soft covers as issued, a complete set, very important and now rare. (5)

The Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (SNG Lockett), is the largest and most complete of all the private collections published in SNG format. The actual collection was sold on the London market from 1955-1961 and occasionaly coins from this collection are offered today at auction. The collection itself formed by Richard Cyril Lockett (1873-1950) is noted for the fineness, completeness and rarity of the coins, many of which came from the great sales of the 1890's to 1920's.