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Pinder’s Rare Catalogue of the Berlin Cabinet

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Pinder’s Rare Catalogue of the Berlin Cabinet
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Pinder, M. DIE ANTIKEN MÜNZEN DES KÖNIGLICHEN MUSEUMS. GESCHICHTE UND ÜBERSICHT DER SAMMLUNG NEBST ERKLÄRENDER BESCHREIBUNG EINER AUSWAHL VON MÜNZEN. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1851. 12mo, original green cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. xxxv, (1), 311, (1) pages; 3 well-executed lithographic plates of coins. Fine. Surprisingly rare: the first copy we have offered in decades. Babelon, page 186: “The King of Prussia, Frederick Willian IV, purchased many collections en bloc. Bohl, of Cologne, sold him 600 Phoenician and Celtiberian coins, and the painter Hinz, 200 Bosporan coins. Professor Ludwig Ross, who was based in Athens, sent him some Greek coins, and Linkh, Auguste Schönborn, and the painter Leopold Güterbock all brought some back from their travels. The duplicates from the Kircher museum (a thousand or so coins, sold by the Roman dealer Capranesi), and Major Adolph von Rauch’s collection of 4,300 Greek coins, of which 28 were gold and 1,000 silver, helped the collection at Berlin to become, by 1853, one of the finest in Europe.” Leitzmann 105. Ex RBW Library.