Ancient coin books and catalogs

Ancient coin books and auction catalogs for sale.

Roman coin, Greek coin, Byzantine coin, and other ancient-coin reference works (for sale in the US only).
Numismatic literature for the ancient-coin specialist.
[My sale catalogs come with PRs so you can tell what the coins really sold for.]

Go to references on: Greek, Celtic, Biblical, Roman Provincial, Roman Republican, Roman Imperial, Roman Gold, Late Roman, Byzantine, English, Medieval, Scholarly journals, sale catalogs by firm.

(If you would rather see coins for sale, go to the main page ).

NEW: 2024, Nov. 18: A few prices reduced. As far as I know, all are the least expensive copies on the web. Newell's books on Seleucid coins.
2024, Oct. 28: Major work on Domitian at the top of this page.
2024, July 23: Two-volume work on Aurelian, price reduced.
2024, June 18: Everything rearranged to be ordered by collecting interest so you can browse easily.

Of very special interest are: The Labors of Hercules and other heroic epics as depicted on Roman Provincial coinage. Reference books on coins of the Jewish War, and the Bar Kokhba War, sale catalogs from NAC which offers colletions of the finest ancient coins, many Greek SNGs. Loeb Classics (Pausanius, Thucydides, etc.).
I have some ex-library Loeb Classics. They are all small hardcover books, 6 5/8" by 4 1/2", with the ancient text and its English translation on facing pages. For sale in the US only! They tell the stories than make your ancient coins interesting. They are withdrawn, long ago, from the Montana State University library. I used to work at MSU. The titles and photos of the books are below.

Purple means sold.
Terms: To ask me a question, or to order, e-mail me, Warren, at

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Shipping is in the US only. It is $4 for one catalog or book and $1 for each additional book (unless it is large and heavy or otherwise marked)
USPS media mail. You must be in the US; I do not ship to other countries unless you pay very large (unreasonable) shipping costs required by the US Post Office.

About catalogs: Auction sale catalogs come with copies of the PR, which makes a big difference. You can tell what coins really sold for. If you get the catalog elsewhere, you probably won't get the PR with it. Abbreviations are explained below, such as"HV" for catalogs with High-Value coins, and "ppl" for page plates of coins.
Links to catalogs alphabetically by firm: CNG (and Triton), NAC, Tkalec.

NEW: This page reorganized! Many sold items removed. Meshorer's Bar Kokhba War. Hahn on Early Byzantine gold.

Edward Newell, The Seleucid Mint of Antioch, red hardcover Obol reprint, 1978. 151 pages plus 13 page plates. Excellent condtion. [$30].

Edward Newell,  The Coinage of the Eastern Seleucid Mints, from Seleucus I to Antiochus II, brown hardover, ANS 1978. 307 pages plus 56 page plates. Excellent condition. [$49]

Books!  Coinage and Finances in the Reign of Domitian: A.D. 81-96 (BAR International) Paperback, 1983. Beautifully hardbound in heavy red cloth covers. Somebody did a nice job having it covered. The original cardcover book and its cover is all there after a flyleaf. Title in black on the spine. Unmarked and seems nearly new. [ $119, reduced to $95 +$5 shipping.]
(For other books and catalogs, see http://augustuscoins.com/numislit.html ]

Book. The large two-volume book by Estiot on coins of Aurelian and Florian, "Monnaies de l'Empire Romain, D' Aureline a Florien, 270-276", with 456 pages in French (most lists, tables, and coin IDs, easy to read), plus 100 page plates and 16 pages of color enlargements and many tables. This copy is excellent.
None on Amazon. AddAll at $199 or $220 but shipped from Europe.
Here, a very good two-volume copy at $145, including shipping in the US only.

The Standard Catalogue of Byzantine Coins Values for 1967, by David Doering. A 34-page pamphlet with and additional 54 coins plated (not very well) and citations more than 500 types to Ratto and BMC. (Sear did not yet exist--those were the references in 1967.) I was surprised to find many of the Ratto citations are to coins that are not illustrated in Ratto. Useful, it is not. It is a curiosity. [$9]

Leu Numismatik, large hardcover sale catalogs with PRs: (Shipping $10 for the pair.)
13 (27 May 2023)  Large hardcover. 420 ancients. 319 pages. 1 or 2 per page with gorgeous enlargements. This could be a coffee-table book.After 388 major ancients it has "The Aurum Barbarorum Collection, part IV" 32 gold or gold fourree coins of the barbaricum. 164 Greek coins, 3 gold Sassanian coins,  11 Roman provincial coins, 53 Republicn and imperaorial, 72 of the Aes Augustorum Collection" (spectacular Roman bronzes), 72 Roman imperial, 11 Byzantine, 32 gold or gold fourree of the barabricum.  [$19. Heavy, so shipping will be $7]
14 14 Oct. 2023) Large hardcover. 350 ancients, 1 or 2 per page with gorgeous enlargements. This could be a coffee-table book. After a selection of other major ancient coins, if has the finest coins from the Dr. Stephan Coffman collection of coins of Aksum (Axum) (with a six-page history. The lesser Aksumite coins were e-auctioned).  119 Greek coins, 17 Roman provincial, 55 Republican and imperatorial coins, 62 Roman imperial coins, 12 Byzantine coins. 85 coins of Aksum (Axum).  [$19. Heavy, so shipping will be $7]

Kunker (These are large and heavy catalogs with excellent coins in color, most both life-sized and enlarged. Shipping will be more than my usual $4 each.) The group of catalogs weighs 26 pounds. Catalogs in German with some descriptions repeated in English.
(The whole group, 9 beautiful catalogs as one lot for $72, plus I'll throw in gratis a massive 325-page "50-year" hardcover history of the Kunker firm, plus $35 shipping, for a total of $107. ) If these were books, in my experience they would be over $50 each).

273 (14 March 2016) "Ancient coins" Cardcover. 1122 ancient coins on 200 pages. All in color with most both life-sized and enlarged. PR on the web.
318 (11/12 March 2019) "Celtic world and celtic gold: East Celts. Magna Graecia: South Italy and Sicily, from the Collection of "Dr. W.R." part 2. Also, Ancient coins and Roman imperial coins of the Collection of Dr. Klaus Berthold of Munich" Cardcover. 386 pages! Thick and heavy! 2209 ancients, many enlarged throoughout. The first 476 are Celtic. PR printed out.
326 (7/8 Oct. 2019) North Greece, Greece motherland, Cyclades, Crete from the colletion of Dr. D.W. part 3. Also Ancient coins from the "Collection Phoibos" and the collection of a north Germany friend of ancients. Carcdover. 373 pages. 1983 ancients. All in color with most both life-sized and enlarged. PR printed out.
376 (18/19 Oct. 2022) Hardcover. "Ancient coins from the collection of Annemarie and Gerd Köhlmoos." Also, ancient coins from other properties. 1225 ancients on 327 pages.rinted out. p
377 (Oct. 20, 2022) Part IV of the Salton Collection, "Ancient Roman and Byzantine coins" Hardcover. 1440 ancients and 214 pages (includes many pages about the Saltons). All in color with many enlargements throughout. PR printed out.382 (16 March 2023) "Coins of the ancient world and denarii of the Roman Republic and the imperium from the collection of Fritzotto Bauss." Cardcover. 574 ancients Only ancients. All in color with most both life-sized and enlarged. PR on the web.
383 (17 March 2023) Hardcover "Roger Wolf Collection" 192 ancients, all in color with most both life-sized and enlarged, many with 5-digit values. Followed by 239 world coins. PR on the web.390 (24 June 2023) Part VII of "The Salton Collection" Hardcover. 239 pages. 431 ancients on 60 pages after many pages about the Saltons. Then 708 world coins. PR on the web.
397 (14/15 Nov. 2023) 1143 ancients. Cardcover. Only ancients. All in color with most both life-sized and enlarged.

Coin books begin here, organized by collecting theme. General,
Greek, Celtic, Biblical, Roman Provincial, Roman Republican, Roman Imperial, Roman Gold, Late Roman, Byzantine, English, Medieval, Scholarly journals, sale catalogs by firm.
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General ancient-coin books (that have both Greek and Roman coins)

Sammlung Franz Trau: Munzen Der Romischen Kaiser. The Attic books reprint of 1976. A famous collection. 53 page plates of special coins. Includes (long outdated) prices realized and 130 pages of listings in German. [$49.95, reduced to $29, reduced to $25]

Book: Bearers of meaning: The Ottilia Buerger collection of ancient and Byzantine coins at Lawrence University. Large paperback 8 1/2" x 11". 147 coins, many high-quality Greek and Roman gold, on 208 pages, all much enlarged in B&W with mediocre photos and a long paragraph or two of discussion. [Originally $45, but it is not worth that. $25 on Amazon. Here, $9]

Read Spanish? Tesoros del Cabinete Numismatico: Las 100 mejores piezas del monetario del Museo Archaeologico Nacionale. (I got it in Madrid at the International Numismatic Congress in 2002). Large paperback. Beautiful. Not all ancients, but important Spanish coins too. [$9]

"Numismatique de L'Ancienne Afrique" (by Falbe, Lindberg, and Müller. Ancient coins of North Africa. Fourni cardcover reprint (of 200 copies) of volumes I, II and III in two books. 12 1/4" x 8 1/2". Each 3/4" thick. In French. The original date is not given, but it was before 1900, so it is old. Line drawings throughout. No photographs. Good condition. Some notes in ink on the back flyleaves, but the rest is unmarked. This is not the "supplement" but the original reprinted as 3 volumes in two books. [$29 plus $6 shipping. This is far less than the Amazon price.]

Monnaies Greco-Bactriennes et Indo-Grecques, by Osmund Bopearachchi. In French. Large format. 459 pages and 69 page plates. Cardcover in very good condition. No marks except former owner's name on flyleaf and one note on the back flyleaf. Excellent condition. Not available anywhere but here, I think. I looked at Amazon, ABE, AddAll, and a general DuckDuckGo search. This is an extremely valuable and desirable book to the right person. Compare with this one:
https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=307332 sold in hardcover at $575+18% = $678. [Here, $375, reduced to $345 plus $8 shipping in the US only]

Griechische Münzen, by Imhoof-Blumer. 1972. Hardcover. 271 pages plus 378 photos. Text in German. Original in very nice shape with no interior marks. Dust jacket is also nice but for a crease along the top about 1/2" down. [$21, reduced to $12]

Book on Corinthian pegasus coins:
Les "Poulains" de Corinthe, Tomb II by Oscar E. Ravel. Tomb II (de 414-300 AV J.-C.) with plates XXIV-LXXVII
It is the 1948 original version. Pages are foxing and the cover is still on well but the connection with the flyleaves in cracking. [$149, reduced to $129 + $4 shipping in the US only] A major reference for less than the cost of one of the coins.

Coins of the Seleucid Empire from the collection of Arthur Houghton, part II, by Oliver Hoover. 2007. Seleucus I to Cleopatra Selene and Antiochus XIII. 906 coins, all beautifully illustrated in B&W. ACNAC of the ANS. New. New dust jacket. Not available anywhere I could find on the web except the publisher--the ANS. Not Amazon, nor vcoins, nor AddAll, nor a straight-out google search. [$75, reduced to $65]

Monnaie de Tarente, Collection Claudius Cote. Attic book reprint of a famous Ratto catalog devoted to coins of Tarentum. 600 coins of Tarentum illustrated, but not well, plus 42 pages of lot descriptions, in French. paperback [$12.50 used on Amazon, $8, reduced to $7 here] "Boy on a dolphin" coins.

An Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards, edited by Thompson, Morkholm, and Kraay. Cardcover. 408 pages. Very good condition with no marks. ANS Publication, 1973. $124.76 on Amazon. [$85, reduced to $55 here.]

BMC Greek, the whole set in matched Fourni reprint edition.
30 books, 38" of shelf space. Used, but unmarked and all in good shape. You can buy occasional volumes individually, but you will have difficulty buying the complete matched set elsewhere. Yes, it is expensive, but it is a wonderful and often-cited reference (and Greek coins are expensive, too!) [$1845 in the US only, including shipping.]

If you own SNG Copenhagen (Danish). I made a map of the regions covered by each of the 8 volumes of SNG Copenhagen (Danish).
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/SNGCopenhagen.pdf
It was not so obvious which volume to look in to find coins of various cities, but with this map you can find the right volume rapidly. If you have the volumes, print this and put it with your books.

[SNG Lockett]. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. British Series. Volume III. The Lockett Collection. All five parts. Part I. Spain-Italy. Part II. Sicily-Thrace. Part III. Macedonia-Aegina (Gold and Silver). Part IV. Peloponnese-Aeolis (Gold and Silver). Part V. Lesbos-Cyrenaica: Addenda (Gold and Silver). (London; Published for the British Academy, 1938-49). Complete in five parts. Each volume is thin. Folio. 64 fine plates illustrating 3,542 coins with accompanying pages of descriptive text. All in the original printed card covers. Fine condition. Important and seldom offered, original edition of this major collection. Clain-Stefanelli 1913. Daehn 1971. Kroh p. 13 (four stars).
https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=385203
My set is in better condition from the looks of the bindings (CNG's were far from "very fine"). Their set went for $1900 + fees in summer 2019. If you know who the underbidder was, let him or her know of this set which is both better and much less expensive. [$995] Do not buy this unless you know it and really want it.

Monnaies grecques en Gaule by Andreas Furtwanger. Typos III. Hardcover. 1978. 336 pages. 42 page plates of coins and 2 of landscapes. Not on Amazon as I write. I found it for $150 elsewhere, not as nice as this copy. Very good condition. No marks. Nice dust jacket. [$129, reduced to $95]

Sylloge Nummorem Graecorum (all folio, that is, very tall, about 15", but not thick):

SNG ANS Part 3: Bruttium-Sicly I: Abacaenum-Erex. Folio, cardcover. 1975. 1348 coins photographed. Excellent condition. No marks in the interior. "Bruttium-Sicly: A-E" inked on the spine. Cover slightly faded. [was $295 on Amazon and now (2022, Feb.) out of stock. Here $140, reduced to $115 + $8 shipping]

SNG IV Fitzwilliam Museum, Leake and General Collections, part VIII, Syria-Nabathaea. Folio. 1971. Covers very thick. Plates 117-136. Excellent plates. None on Amazon or vcoins and a book consolidator search found none. [$39, reduced to $33, reduced to $29 + $8 shipping (it is folio!)]

SNG IV Fitzwilliam Museum, Leake and General Collections, part II, Sicily-Thrace. Folio. 1972. Covers very thick. Pages XV-XXXIII. Very fine, but inked "Sicily Thrace" on spine. [$49, reduced to $45 + $8 shipping, it is folio]

SNG Deutschland Statliche Munzsammlung Munchen, volume 1 (Hispania-Gallia Narbonensis) Cardcovers. 432 coins on 17 folio page plates. Fine. No marks. Excellent for ancient Spain and Gaul [$39, reduced to $29, reduced to $25 + $8 shipping in the US only]

Greek coins of the Black Sea region.

Odesos. Contribution to the Study of the Coin Minting of the City 4th 1st c. BC. B. C. By Stavri Topalov. Sofia: Nasco, Date: 1999. Bilingual edition (in Bulgarian with 19-page English summary). Hard cover, 21 x 15 cm, 344 pp., ill.; net weight 500 gr. ISBN: 954-8556-10-3.CONTENTS:Preface1. Historical information about Odessos in the period 7th—1st c. B. C.2. Review of the studies connected with the coinage of Odessos3. Periodization of the coinage of the West Pontic cities 7th—1st c. B. C. Periodization of the coinage of Odessos4. Emergence of bronze coinage, denominations, names of the denominations and theoretical weights of the bronze coins of the West Pontic cities 4th—1st c. B. C.5. Images, symbols, inscriptions and monograms on the coins of Odessos 4th—1st c. B. C.6. Monetary circulation in the territory of Odessos in the 6th—5th c. B. C.Coinage of Odessos, 4th—1st c. B. C. Chronology, types, denominations1. Classical period in the coinage of Odessos (480/478—341/323 B. C.)2. Hellenistic period of the Odessos coinage (341/323—31 B. C.)2.1. Interruption of the coinage (341/323—281 B. C.). First stage (281—196/188 B. C.)2.2. Second stage (196/188—115/105 B. C.)2.3. The countermarking of coins of the Western Pointic cities by the deputies of Mithridates VI in the area of the West Pontic coast2.4. Third stage (115/105—72/71 B. C.)2.5. Fourth stage (ca. 63 B. C. — end of the Ist c. B. C.)3. Non-existent coins of Odessos described in studies so far. Catalogue of the coins of Odessos (4th—1st c. B. C.) (Mostly in Bulgarian and some in English) [$39]

The Odrysian Kingdom for the late 5th to the mid 4th C. B.C. Contributions to the study of its coinage and history. By Stavri Topalov. 1994. All in English. Hardcover. 21x15 cm. 172 pages, 37 coins plated. These are coins of scholarly interst, but not beautiful. Some line drawings. This book is very rare. I was unable to find any copies on the web. [$69]

Messambria Pontica. Contribution to the study of the coin minting of the city, 5th - 1st C.B.C. by Stavri Topalov. 1995. Hardcover. 21x15 cm. 212 pages, 61 coins plated. Most in Bulgarian. 33 pages of summary in English. Some line drawings. Many photos throughout. Foxing [$45]

Kelten im Osten, Sammlung Lanz, by Michaela Kostial. 2003. Hardcover. 8 1/2" x 11 3/4". 195 pages. 1047 coins. None on Amazon. Seems sold out everywhere but here. Try a search yourself. [$139, reduced to $95] (The most important book about them costs less than even a single one of most of these coins!)

Atlas of the Ancient Coins of France, by Henri de la Tour. With an introduction by Barclay V. Head (from Historia Nummorum). Hardcover, 11" x 8 1/4". 17 pages plus 55 page plates of line-drawings, crammed with Gallic coins.

Voegtli, H. Bilder der Heldenepen in der kaiserzeitlichen griechischen Munzprägung. (Aesch, 1977). Dr. Voegtli's (formerly of Münzen und Medaillen AG) doctoral dissertation on the Labors of Hercules and other heroic epics as depicted on Roman Provincial coinage. A4. Cardcover. 168 pages (in German) plus 24 individual page plates (loose and designed to be tucked into a slot in the back cover. It looks like a typewritten thesis with 24 individual page plates. Rare and interesting. Excellent condition. [Very rare! $179, reduced to $139, reduced to $79] (This is probably less than the cost of one nice coin of these types.)

"Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Coins in the Museum at Amasya (Ancient Amaseia) Turkey," by Stanley Ireland. RNS Special publication 33. 2000. Hardcover, with DJ. 12" x 8 1/2". $51 on Amazon and used from $34 in good. [Nearly new. $25]

"Studies in Ancient Coinage from Turkey" edited by Richard Ashton. RNS Special publication 29. 1996. $75 on Amazon and used form $57. Here, a nearly new copy, [$39]

Coins of the Jewish War of 66-73 C. E. [Corpus Nummorum Palaestinensium, Vol. III] (Hardcover, 1960) by Leo Kadman. 205 pages. 59 coins on five page plates. Good condition. Dustjacket has 2" tear. [$45, reduced to $33]

The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War, Typos VI Hardcover, by Leo Mildenberg. A beautiful copy with dust jacket. All in excellent condition. No copies on Amazon when I listed this and I put mine there. (A while ago the only one was "collectible" at $595). I listed this copy both there and here. I'd prefer you buy it here and save me the Amazon fees. Here, [$450]. (Any one of the silver coins costs more than that!).

The History of Coins and Symbols in Ancient Israel. Hardcover – Illustrated. 1958. by Wolf Wirgin & Siegfried Mandel. Contents and cover in very nice shape. Inked notes on the last page of the index and back flyleaf. Inked former owner's name on the front flyleaf. [$34.95, reduced to $29]

"The Coins of Tiberias" by Arie Kindler. Paperback. 1961. 118 pages. Pages 77-115 are plates with one side of one coin each, enlarged. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" [$50 on Amazon. $35, reduced to $29 here] ex Alex Malloy with his bookmark.

"The coins of Caesarea Maritima" (Corpus nummorum Palaestinensium, volume II) by Leo Kadman. Hardcover – 1957. 244 pages and XIX plates. None on Amazon. Spine faded. Foxed. [$120 on ABE. $65, reduced to $55]

"The Coins of Akko Ptolemais", by Leo Kadman. Corpus nummorum Palaestinensium IV, volume IV) 1961. Hardcover with DJ (more ragged than the image). 240 pages plus XIX plates. None on Amazon. $84 on ABE. Here [$49, reduced to $45]

Sternberg auction catalog 26  (16 Nov. 92) HV. HQP. 510 ancients on 26 ppl in B&W + 2 E + 3 color (+ 22 ppl + 2 E + 2 C of cut stones and small bronzes)
    177 G, 292 R, 41 Byz. [$4, reduced to $3SOLD]
    Yehud (17, each natural size and also x3)

QEDEM 4 Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bullae and Seals from a Post-Exilic Judaen Archive, by Nahman Avigad.   Hardcover.   36 pages in English, 15 plates, 4 pages with images of lettering. Also, the entire text in Hebrew. Excellent condition except "Seals Judaea" written in ink in the spine (since the title isn't!). No interior marks and almost seems new. [$30 on Amazon, $19 here, reduced to $12, reduced to $7]

Roman

Coinage and Finances in the Reign of Domitian: A.D. 81-96 (BAR International) Paperback, 1983. Beautifully hardbound in heavy red cloth covers. Somebody did a nice job having it covered. The original cardcover book and its cover is all there after a flyleaf. Title in black on the spine. Unmarked and seems nearly new. [ $119, reduced to $95 +$5 shipping.]

The large two-volume book by Estiot on coins of Aurelian and Florian, "Monnaies de l'Empire Romain, D' Aureline a Florien, 270-276", with 456 pages in French (most lists, tables, and coin IDs, easy to read), plus 100 page plates and 16 pages of color enlargements and many tables. This copy is excellent.
None on Amazon. AddAll at $199 or $220 but shipped from Europe.
Here, a very good copy at $180, reduced to $165, reduced to $145 including shipping in the US only.

Rodewald: Money in the Age of Tiberius. Hardcover. $25 on Amazon. $12, reduced to $10 here. HC. VG. [Economics and money, not collecting]

The Nietulisko Hoards of Roman Denarii [from Poland] by Kunka Mitkowa-Szubert. Paperback, 1989. 9 1/2" by 6 3/4". 199 pages, almost all English, plus 69 plates of hoard coins, almost all Trajan to Commodus. For the specialist scholar. Out of print. Not on Amazon. $37 on ABE but the copy is in Europe. [$35, reduced to $17, reduced to $8]

Monnaies de Fouilles du Sud-Est de la Gaule, by Claude Brenot et Jean-Pierre Callu. In French. 113 pages plus 5 page plates of coins, some Gallic but most Roman imperial coins in bad shape. Universite de Paris X Nanterre, Centre de recherches sur l"antiquite tardive et le haut moyen age, cashier no. III - 1978. You do not want this unless you are trying to build a major library complete for such things. [$19, reduced to $4].

Important NAC catalogs emphasizing Roman gold are listed on their own page: NACgold.html

UBS (Zurich, Switzerland)  75 (2008, Jan. 22) "Roman Gold Coins." Hardcover. VHV. HQP. 145 Roman gold coins, 4 Republican and 141 imperial, all in color and enlarged in color. [$10, , reduced to $8, with PR, of course]
    Roman gold (145)

Small group of catalogs emphasizing Roman gold: Hirsch 193, 135 coins in color and enlarged in color. Rauch 56, 165 coins in B&W, photos not great, a four more very thin offerings of gold coins. [$4 for the group, counted as one catalog for shipping]

Sincona 41 (2017 Oct. 23) Hardcover. 280 ancients, mostly gold. 31 Philip II and Alexander staters. Early Roman gold, late Roman gold, 87 Byz gold, 2 Visigothic gold. [$8, reduced to $6, with printed PR, of course]
Gold

LeCam, Guy. La fin de l'empire romain et le monnayage or en Italie 455-493 [Two massive hardcover volumes.] 1983. Nearly new. [$455, reduced to $425 + $15 shipping in the US only--they are huge!] All the gold coins of that period, usually numerous examples of each type, many greatly enlarged. Text in French. If you can afford one late Roman gold coin, you might want this massive work to see very many photos of all the types.

Catalog: Stack's 1984, May 5. The Frederick S. Knobloch Collection of Late Roman and Byzantine Coins" small format. 679 lots, many not illustrated. (I'd guess about 400 of the best are illustrated) 569 gold and silver from Diocletian to the end of the empire, 310 Byzantine gold and silver. (A few excellent copper coins are illustrated) [$9, reduced to $7, reduced to $5, reduced to $4 SOLD]
Late Roman and Byzantine gold and silver (579, many not illustrated)

Late Roman argenti (silver)
Catalog: Nomos 3 (2011, May 10) VHV. VHQP. 259 ancients among 263. 2 Celtic, 159 G, 10 RR, 79 RI including 41 argentei from "the tetrarchy collection", 6 Byz, 3 Merovingian [$5, reduced to $4, reduced to $3]
late Roman argentei (41)

Byzantine

Studies in Early Byzantine Gold Coinage by Wolfgan Hahn. ANS Studies 17. 1988. Red hardcover in great shape. 182 pages plus 24 page plates. [$33]

Nearly new. Roman and Early Byzantine Gold Coins found in Britain and Ireland by Roger Bland and Xavier Loriot, London, 2010, 372 pages, 22 plates, A4, red cloth, dust jacket. New. RNS Special Publication 46. [$35, reduced to $25 + $6 shipping.]

The Standard Catalogue of Byzantine Coins Values for 1967, by David Doering. A 34-page pamphlet with and additional 54 coins plated (not very well) and citations more than 500 types to Ratto and BMC. (Sear did not yet exist--those were the references in 1967.) I was surprised to find many of the Ratto citations are to coins that are not illustrated in Ratto. Useful, it is not. It is a curiosity. [$9]

Late Roman and early Byzantine: Long ago my interest in late Roman coins caused me to want Hendy's "Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy, c. 300-1450." I could not find a copy for sale, so I photocopied parts. Now I was able to find and buy a copy, so my photocopies are extra. I have the Table of Contents (v-ix), Introduction ((1-18), Chapter 5 on "Supply" (257-305), Chapter 6 "Supervision" (316-345), Chapter 7 "Administrative basis" (371-409), Chapter 8 Coin Production "History" (448-493), and "Preliminary Observations" (553-569), Future Directions" (662-667) Key to Plates (713-719) the late Roman plates, 1-3. Many pages have many pencil marks such as underlining. [Total, $3, reduced to $2]

Catalogs:
Baldwin's 5 (11 Oct. 1995) "Byzantine Gold Coins from the P. J. Donald Collection" 285 Byz gold on 12 large ppl. Photos okay but worse than most. [$5, reduced to $1]
Byzantine gold (285)

Elsen 125 (2015, June 13) 1085 ancients among 1982. 120 G, 157 Celtic, 25 RR, 130 RI, 16 RP, 544 Byz gold and silver "Collection Henri Potteir", 32 Carolingian [$7, reduced to $5]
544 Byzantine gold and silver
Sternberg catalog 8 (11/78) MV, HQP. 1015 ancients. 339 G, 41 Aksum, 374 R, 238 Byz including AE, 18 Arab-Byz, on 50 ppl + 2E [I love this selection of AE: $8, reduced to $5, reduced to $4 SOLD]
Aksumite (41), Byzantine AE (among 238)

Arabic, World

Arabic: Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tubingen (German Edition, but there are only several pages of text; it is an SNG-style folio book.) (Paperback) Palastina, IV a Bilad as-Sam I, by Lutz Ilisch. Folio. 577 Arabic coins from Palestine (with a page of Arab-Byzantine) on 18 very large (folio) plates. [$87 on Amazon. $55, reduced to $47 here + $8 shipping (because it is so tall)]

Le Bestiare des Monnaies, des Sceaux, et des Medailles. Heavy glossy paperback with XLIV plus 535 pages of articles in French on animals on coins and medals. Only a fraction is on ancient coins. You won't want this unless you read French, since it is mostly text--not an exhaustive list of photos. No internal flaws. 3/4' tear at the top of the spine (could be easily taped). [$39, reduced to $12, reduced to $9]

I am getting old and trying to get my extensive catalog collection (assembled with a lot of effort over many years) into the hands of collectors who would enjoy and appreciate them. Since you probably don't know precisely what is in them, I have priced them low so you are highly likely to be pleased if you like sale catalogs at all. Take a chance on these. I'd take them back if you didn't like them, but they are so inexpensive that shipping will be a good part of the cost to you. If you have bought from me before, you know that they would normally cost much worth more than I ask.

Aretusa (Lugano, Switzerland) 11 3/4" by 8 1/4" (large)
1 (18 Sept. 1993) MV. MQP. 373 ancients among 700 on 21 ppl among 44. 85 G, 28 Aksumite, 156 RR (including aes grave and AE), 92 RI, 10 Byz.
Aksumite (28)
2 (13-14 May 1994) MV. MQP. 521 ancients among 1477 on 28 ppl among 108 ppl. 191 G, 281 R, 35 Byz, 13 DA. [The pair, $5, reduced to $4]

Argenor (Paris, France*) A4 format. 40% ancients. April 25, 2002 (B&W, with PR); April 22, 2004 (B&W with PR); 2006, May 3 (color, no PR); 2007, May 9 (color, no PR); [4 issues , $8, reduced to $4]

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Bertolami Fine Arts, 24 (June 22-23, 2016) 1019 lots of ancient in color. [no PR, $4, reduced to $3]

Artemide Kunstauktionen XXXVII, (2012, Dec. 8) 242 lots of ancient in color. Plus the famous the Pisonello John VIII medal in bronze. [with PR $5, reduced to $4]

astArte (Lugano. astartesa.com) 6 (2001, Oct. 10-11) 512 B&W ancients plus 3 color plates. Very large format--larger than A4! [$3, reduced to $2]

Dolphin Coins. Fixed-price lists 7 (Summer 1995), 8, 9, 10 (Winter 1996) [English firm. Very few ancients, but Celtic and English hammered. Thin large-format catalogs. [$2 + shipping as one catalog (i.e. $4 shipping if nothing else is ordered). They'd cost $3 including shipping if you already paid for the basic $4 shipping by ordering something else.]

Elsen 65 (2001, March 17-18) 997 ancients, 200 Islamic. Including 74 12 Caesars AE, and another 98 later AE. B&W with PR. [$4, reduced to $2]

Catalogs by firm. Individual catalogs.

All the auction catalogs come with PR's (unless marked otherwise)

CNG = Classical Numismatic Group   The most prominent American ancient-coin firm.Triton I, II, III, and IV (not part II of IV which was only Polish coins): [Usually $25 each on vcoins when they have them (they have none as I write this), here $15, reduced to $12, each] I think they are before CoinArchives.

48 is Triton II (12/98) 1206 ancients among 1331, many enlarged throughout + 16 color E. 547 G, 25 Parthian, 39 Baktrian, 42 RP, 23 aes grave, 60 RR, 359 RI, 5 DA, 15 Celtic England, 22 Anglo Saxon, 27 pennies [$15, reduced to $9, reduced to $7]
    Baktrian (39)
52 was Triton III (Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 1999) 1374 ancients among 1654, many enlargements throughout, + 13 color E among 15 + 4 full page B&W enlargements. 728 G, 77 RP, 151 RR, 327 RI, 8 DA, 54 Byz, 5 Celtic England, 2 English DA, 20 pennies [$12, reduced to $8, reduced to $6]
    RR and imperatorial gold (46)
56 was Triton IV (12/00) in two volumes, with the second catalog entiredly devoted to Polish coins -- perhaps the finest Polish collection ever offered [not offered here]. The first volume has 892 ancients among 1015, many enlargements throughout + 13 color E among 15. 352 G. 33 RP, 52 RR, 318 RI, 3 DA, 122 Byz, 3 Celtic England, 3 English DA, 7 pennies. [The first volume wihout Polish coins: $10, reduced to $7, reduced to $6]

Auction sale catalogs: Markov, 8 1/2" by 11" catalogs. Markov specializes in coins of the former Soviet Union, with strong selections of some series seldom seen elsewhere. He has remarkable runs of "Central Asian" pre-Islamic and Islamic coins. He has outstanding "Black Sea area" runs, such as Panticipaion, Kings of the Bosporus, and Byzantine AE from Cherson. He also offers, but not in large numbers, traditional Greek and Roman coins. In the numbers inthe contents I will count early Central Asian (Sogdiana, Bukhara, Chach, Georgia, etc.) and early Arabic coins as "ancient." buy or bid 2/15/95 (#1) [no PRs published for #1-3], 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 [6, 7, 8, 9 with PRs], 11, 12 (lit only), 13
Detailed contents are here. [$16, reduced to $12 + $8 shipping]

Munzen und Medallien = M&M = Monnaies et Medailles (Basel, Switzerland) Many of the highest-quality coins have been sold by M&M - one of the most prominent firms in the world until they folded in 2004.
    Most early issues are in French. Some are in German.
    Very high value to high value coins. There are generally wonderful collections, not just nice coins fresh out of the ground.
    If M&M has late Roman or Byzantine, it is almost always gold. They have fixed-price lists that might offer an outstanding piece in copper, but these auctions do not, in contrast to, say, Sternberg, who often does. So, when the list here says, say, "85 Byz" do not expect any to be copper.

35   (6/67) HV. MQP. 246 ancients among 645 on 15 ppl + 2 E (+ 2 ppl bracteates + 25 other) 212 R, 33 Byz.
53 (11/77) VHV. HQP. 306 ancients on 21 ppl + 3 E + 1 color. 173 G, 133 R.
68 (4/86) VHV. MQP. 463 ancients on 28 ppl + 3 E. 325 G, 111 R, 27 Byz.
95 (2004, Oct. 4) 178 ancients among 463 plus one color ppl among 5. HV. MQP. 110 G, 64 RI, 4 Byz.
[This is the end of the M&M series. They went out of business. All four as one lot, $12 SOLD + $7 shipping.]

NAC (see Numismatica Ars Classica, below)

Many NAC catalogs. The finest catalogs ever produced. Totally gorgeous coins and excellent cataloging.
Numismatica Ars Classica (NAC)
Numismatica Ars Classica (auction sales) (Swiss firm, but text in English, with PRs)
The numbered sales are all superb, with highest quality coins and major rarities. All coins are very well illustrated with excellent high-quality photos. The numbered sales have additional color plates and plates of enlargements. There are also four special sales.
If you know CNG catalogs, think of the NAC numbered sales as, on average, significantly higher quality coins, equally well photographed, with less description, but far more enlargements and use of gorgeous color. If you like CNG quality coins, you will love these.
All with "Prices Realized." That is important. PRs are not easy to find. Most catalogs come without PRs. If you buy these elsewhere, you probably won't get the PR and won't be able to tell what the coins really sold for.

Numismatica Ars Classica (Zürich) "NAC". These are the finest catalogs of the finest collections. Many are downright spectacular! I am listing them on these linked pages: By catalog number. NAC catalogs emphasizing Roman gold.

NAC ancient-coin catalogs listed on their own page: http://augustuscoins.com/pages/edit/coins/NAC.html

Here are important, but not ancient-coin, NAC catalogs:
[14 is a huge and spectacular collection of coins of the Popes and Italian and Spanish mints -- not ancients. $15, reduced to $9, reduced to $5 + $6 shipping.]
[16 is not ancients, rather Italian, Spanish, huge 128 B&W plates plus XXX color plates! $15, reduced to $9, reduced to $5 + $6 shipping]
[28 (Jan. 31, 2005) Hapsberg [not ancients, reduced to $0 + $5 shipping]

A few Sternberg catalogs:
26  (16 Nov. 92) HV. HQP. 510 ancients on 26 ppl + 2 E + 3 color (+ 22 ppl + 2 E + 2 C of cut stones and small bronzes)
    177 G, 292 R, 41 Byz. [$4, reduced to $3]
    Yehud (17, each natural size and also x3)
28 (Oct 30, 1995) Joint with Freeman and Sear. HV. MQP. 305 Roman imperial AE on 26 ppl in B&W + 2 color. [$5, reduced to $4] Beautiful sestetii.
    Roman imperial AE (305)

Tkalec (Usually one catalog per year, numbered by the year. VHQP. Superb photography in catalogs since 1991.)
Although catalogs have many very high value coins, they are not all rare coins. They seem to regularly offer some common coins in superb condition with spectacular patina or toning. All their catalogs since 1994 are truly beautiful. Swiss firm, catalogs in English. All spectacular!
Tkalec has old PRs on his site, but the site is not well-designed or maintained and the link is hard to find, so here it is:
http://www.coinstkalec.ch/home/PricesRealized.aspx
2005, 2006, 2007 Feb, 2007 April, Sept 2008, May 2009, May 2010, May 2011, Oct 2013 (thin). [4" of the highest grade coins as one lot for $29 + $12 shipping]

Triton (these are regarded here as CNG catalogs with numbers in their run of catalogs.) (joint offerings of CNG, Freeman & Sear, and NAC, and later CNG alone) All high to very high value coins with very high quality presentation.

The first, Pausanius, has the original Greek on one page and an English translation on the facing page.

This is all five volumes. The interiors are nice. They discuss cities and what (ancient) tourists would want to see in each.
Imhoof-Blumer and Gardner wrote a book "Ancient Coins Illustrating Lost Masterpieces of Ancient Art" that correlates the (mostly Roman provincial) coins with the text. (That book is not included.)
Five Loeb Classic volumes: [$59, reduced to $45 + $8 shipping.] (They cost significantly more volume by volume on Amazon). (There is nothing directly about coins in these volumes. You'd have to buy the other book for that.)

The Fall of Troy, Qunitus Smynaeus. $58 on Amazon. [$32, reduced to $27 + $4 shipping here]

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War. All 8 volumes, two per book. [$45, reduced to $39 + $7 shipping]. Unmarked except for library markings and "Withdrawn" on the top. Actually, pretty good condition except for all the usual libary marks.

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