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The Kunstfreundes Sale

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 USD
The Kunstfreundes Sale
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Leu, Bank, and Münzen und Medaillen. GRIESCHISCHE MÜNZEN AUS DER SAMMLUNG EINES KUNSTFREUNDES. Zürich, 28. Mai 1974. 4to, later orange cloth, lettered in black. 372 pages; 253 lots; well illustrated throughout. Prices realized list laid in. Fine. A most important sale, superbly catalogued and illustrated, comprising selections from the magnificent Charles Gillet collection. One of the great Greek coin sales of the twentieth century; the 253 lots realized over four million dollars. Daehn 2026. Spring 418: "the Kunstfreund catalogue set new standards in the cataloguing of ancient coins, both as to scholarship of the content and artistic layout" [also listed under "Most important sales of ancient Greek coins"].