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Anson’s Numismata Graeca

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Anson’s Numismata Graeca
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Anson, L. NUMISMATA GRAECA: GREEK COIN TYPES, CLASSIFIED FOR IMMEDIATE IDENTIFICATION. TEXT: PARTS I-VI / SMALL NUMISMATIC DICTIONARY … RECORD OF RECENT AUCTION PRICES / GENERAL GUIDE--INDEX / SUMMARY AND PLATES: PARTS I-VI. First edition. London, 1910-16. Thirteen parts complete, bound in two volumes. 4to, contemporary red quarter morocco with mottled sides; professionally rebacked; contemporary decorative endpapers. viii, 138, (2); (4), 112, (2); (2), 152, (2); (6), 99, (1); 146, (2); (4), 108, 20, 7, (1); (4), viii, (2), (2), ix, (1), (2), (2), ix, (1), (2), viii, (2), x, (2), vii, (1), xli, (1) pages; 27 + 25 + 30 + 21 + 25 + 22 fine plates depicting 3667 different coins, including illustrations of 6856 obverses and reverses. Bindings rubbed; interiors near fine, with foxing to extremities. Overall, a very good or better set. A most useful attribution aid, arranged using the following categories: 1) Industry; 2) War; 3) Agriculture; 4) Religion; 5) Architecture; 6) Naval and Marine; 7) Science & the Arts; and 8) Miscellaneous. Clain-Stefanelli 3406*. Daehn 559: “A comprehensive guide to identifying Greek coins.” Grierson 59. Kroh 8 and 66: “This work identifies Greek coins having as their devices inanimate objects (excluding animals, gods and humans).”