Numismatic Literature

Lot 4245    Session 14 (4.30pm Friday)    Numismatic Literature

Estimate $600
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $480

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). The original editions for the second (1939), third (1942) and fourth (1945) parts and the second impression first part produced as a reprint in 1957, lacking the fifth part, 48pps, 48 plates, London, for the British Academy. Nearly as new and a fine near complete set mostly of the original edition, soft covers as issued, very important and the earlier first edition parts now rare. (4)

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 occasionally 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.