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Healy: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Volume VII - Manchester University Museum. The Raby and Guterbock

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Healy: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Volume VII - Manchester University Museum. The Raby and Guterbock
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Healy, John F. (Ed.). SYLLOGE NUMMORUM GRAECORUM. VOLUME VII - MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY MUSEUM. THE RABY AND GUTERBOCK COLLECTIONS. Oxford University Press. 1986. 4to. 135, (1) pages. London. First edition. original brown cloth, gilt. 57 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. Published for the British Academy. This work, the first part of the Sylloge to be published in the new format, contains the Guterbock and Raby collections of Greek coins in the Manchester University Museum. The former coins, originally on loan, were given to the Museum in 1916 by Alfred Guterbock about whose life and career there is, unfortunately, no detailed information. These formed the nucleus of the collection and Harold Raby, who was for many years Honorary Curator, added more than a 1,000 fine coins which he had collected over a period of half a century. The success of his ambition to create a collection representing the major Greek series in gold, electrum, and silver, together with some interesting bronzes, may be judged from the evidence of the present volume, in which the Raby coins are identified by an asterisk. Particularly well represented are the mints of Tarentum, Thurium, Syracuse, Alexander III, Corinth, Athens, the Achaean League, Syrian kings, and Ptolemies. A number of fine, or rare, coins include a gold stater from Tarentum, a Syracusan tetradrachm by Euainetos, one of three decadrachms signed by Kirnon, a gold stater of Philip II, from previously unrecorded dies, and a gold stater of Cyrene. Lot weight: 1 lbs 11oz. Subject(s): Ancient Coinage.