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The E-Sylum
An electronic publication of
The Numismatic Bibliomania Society
Volume 17, Number 51, December 14, 2014
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM DECEMBER 14, 2014
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LAKE BOOKS SALE #120 CLOSES DECEMBER 16, 2014
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KOLBE & FANNING OFFER RARE DUPRÉ PAMPHLETS
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BANK NOTE LITERATURE IN THE 2015 STACKS BOWERS NYINC SALE
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NEW BOOK: CIVIL WAR SUTLER TOKENS, 2ND EDITION
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NEW BOOK: LA COLECCIÓN CERVERA, MONEDA ANTIQUA DE HISPANIA
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BOOK REVIEW: CASH IN YOUR COINS, 2ND EDITION
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NEWMAN NUMISMATIC PORTAL LAUNCHES IN 2015
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THE HISTORY OF THE COIN LIBRARY
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NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: DECEMBER 14, 2014
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QUERY: 1838-O HALF DOLLARS SOUGHT FOR RESEARCH
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1795 MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE TIME CAPSULE
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SOME RECENT AUCTION ITEMS: INDIAN PEACE AND PICASSO MEDALS
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EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK QUARTER LAUNCH
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JOEL ISKOWITZ ON HIS FALLEN HEROES DESIGN
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U.S. MINT PROFILES MEDALLIC SCULPTOR JOSEPH MENNA
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HAYDEN ACQUIRES TANENBAUM GOOD-FOR TOKENS
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SOME INTERESTING TOKENS: DECEMBER 14, 2014
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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LONDON MUSEUM TOKENS
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BILLIONAIRE BOUGHT WATSON’S GOLD NOBEL
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WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: DECEMBER 14, 2014
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“HERCULES” COINS IN BURNHAM’S CELESTIAL HANDBOOK
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CHINESE CITY BURNS MONEY FOR POWER
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LORD ASHCROFT PAYS £312,000 FOR LATEST VICTORIA CROSS
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ARTICLE EXAMINES HIGH PRICES FOR MILITARY MEDALS
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ADAMS COLLECTION OF SPANISH COLONIAL PROCLAMATION MEDALS
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MARK LOVMO'S ARTICLES ON SOUTH KOREAN NUMISMATICS
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'STUART LITTLE' PAINTING BRINGS $285,700
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HANUKKAH CHOCOLATE COINS
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COINS AT CHRISTMAS - A COIN COLLECTOR’S CHRISTMAS
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FEATURED WEB PAGE: U.S. MINT SPECIAL REPORT
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM DECEMBER 14, 2014
New subscribers this week include:
Wolfgang Boehm of Kassel, Germany, courtesy of David Cassel;
Scott Sery, and
Bill Sponseller.
Welcome aboard!
We now have 1,797 subscribers.
This week we open with updates from literature dealers Fred Lake and David Fanning, some literature lots in the Stack's Bowers NYINC sale, two new books and one review.
Next is information about the Newman Numismatic Portal, a new web site planned to debut in 2015.
Other topics include the 1838-O half dollar, the 1795 Massachusetts State House time capsule, the Everglades National Park quarter, U.S. Mint sculptor Joseph Menna, Steve Tanenbaum's Good-For tokens, Watson's gold Nobel prize medal, and South Korean numismatics.
To learn more about Augustin Dupré, Congreve’s Principals of Security Against Forgery, Civil War Sutler tokens, the Numismatic Indexes Project, Royal succession and the state mourning period, Sir Aston Lever's Holophusicon, Pablo Picasso's medals, Mount Vernon Shingle Script, Love Warts and Bicycle Face, read on. Have a great week, everyone!
Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum
LAKE BOOKS SALE #120 CLOSES DECEMBER 16, 2014
Fred Lake forwarded this reminder of Tuesday's closing date for his latest sale. Thanks.
-Editor
A reminder that Lake Books’ 120th mail-bid sale of numismatic literature sale closes on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 5:00 PM (EST). The sale may be viewed at
http://www.lakebooks.com/current.html.
The sale features selections from the library of William S. Panitch and includes hard-to-find volumes such as Clain-Stefanelli’s bibliography that contains 1,848 pages of useful material, Newcomb’s work on early Large Cents, a nice 5th edition “Redbook”, and a diverse group of reference works on tokens and medals, paper money, et al. Be sure to bid early as ties are won by the earliest bid received. You may bid via email, telephone or fax until the closing time.
Good Luck with your bidding. Cordially, Fred
Lake Books
6822 22nd Ave N
St. Petersburg, FL 33710-3918
727-343-8055 fax: 727-381-6822
KOLBE & FANNING OFFER RARE DUPRÉ PAMPHLETS
David Fanning forwarded this press release about a blockbuster lot in their upcoming New York numismatic literature sale. Thanks!
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KOLBE & FANNING TO OFFER RARE PAMPHLETS BY AUGUSTIN DUPRÉ IN THEIR NEW YORK AUCTION
Among the highlights of Kolbe & Fanning’s January 10 New York Book Auction is an exceptional volume of pamphlets by Augustin Dupré regarding his role in French coinage, from the library of the author. The volume, lot 112 in the sale, comprises five publications by Dupré, some of them annotated in his own hand. The volume as a whole is inscribed by Narcisse Dupré, son of Augustin, and is in an early 19th-century binding.
The five pamphlets are a remarkable source of information on Dupré’s efforts on behalf of the redesign of French coinage during and after the Revolution. Three of them consist of versions of his Observations présentées au comité des monnoies de l’assemblée nationale (1790), with the first two versions being annotated by Dupré in anticipation of the printing of the final edition. The volume also includes Dupré’s 1791 Réponse à l’écrit de M. Beyerlé ... dénonçant la fabrication des pièces de 15 sols and a 1792 publication written with Bertrand Verlac, Observations rélatives au Mémoire que la Commission générale des monnoyes...
Dupré (1748-1833), remains one of the most important engravers of French coins in modern history, and his designs for early U.S. medals (mostly notably the Libertas Americana) have ensured his lasting fame in the western hemisphere. An engraver by trade, Dupré began to work on medals in the early 1770s and quickly became adept. Notable works include several classic medals of the Comitia Americana series: those for Nathanael Greene, John Paul Jones and Daniel Morgan, as well as the related Diplomatic Medal and the Libertas Americana medal.
During the French Revolution, he became interested in applying his ideas to the new national coinage. Dupré wrote his October 1790 Observations addressed to the Comité des Monnoies de l’Assemblée Nationale. In early 1791, the Assembly adopted some of Dupré’s ideas and initiated a contest for new coin designs under the eye of painter Louis David. Dupré won the competition and became the 14th graveur général des monnaies on July 11, 1791. His neoclassical designs would win him fame and admiration that continue to this day.
Dupré’s rise to prominence in a period of political upheaval made him enemies, and he was seriously threatened during the Terror when he was denounced by one Beyerlé, who accused Dupré of producing inferior coinage. In Dupré’s Réponse, he not only defends himself, but insists on reforms he had proposed earlier. The final work present in the volume was written with Bertrand Verlac, an influential “homme de loi” and functionary with the Ministry of the Navy. It is a detailed response to a report to the Convention Nationale on the redesign of the coinage. Written at the height of the Revolution, it is an important statement of Dupré’s beliefs and artistic vision.
All five of these works are rare, being known primarily from institutional holdings and being virtually unknown on the secondary market. They were generally unheard of by modern numismatists until the April 2, 2014 sale of the Dupré archives by Bonhams in New York, of which this was part.
Kolbe & Fanning’s public auction will be held on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The sale will be held in conjunction with the New York International Numismatic Convention. Printed catalogues have been mailed to established clients. A PDF of the catalogue has been posted to the Kolbe & Fanning website at www.numislit.com. Prospective bidders may also access the live online catalogue and register to bid through auction.numislit.com. Please contact David Fanning at df at numislit.com for more information.
I passed the press release on to Joel Orosz today for comment.
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Joel writes:
This archive provides an extraordinary opportunity to learn, at first-hand, the numismatic philosophy and coinage artistry of one of the seminal influencers of American numismatics, Augustin Dupré. One of Dupré's countrymen, Jacques Barzun, famously wrote, in God's Country and Mine, "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." I would say that whoever wants to know the heart and mind of early American coinage had better learn about Dupré.
Amen! Congratulations in advance to the new owner of this numismatic treasure.
-Editor
BANK NOTE LITERATURE IN THE 2015 STACKS BOWERS NYINC SALE
There are several important numismatic literature lots in the Stack's Bowers New York International sale (lots 2094-2112). Topics include British Security Printing, Counterfeit Detection, and Bank Note Engraving. Thanks . Here are a few of my favorites.
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Lot #2094: 1819 Report on Preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes
"Report of the Committee of the SOCIETY OF ARTS, c…….together with the approved communications, and evidence upon the same relative to the mode of Preventing the Forgery of BANK NOTES". London, 1819. Bound in Quarter Green Morocco Leather. Superb.
Very Rare Society of Arts 1819 "Preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes"
A stellar and very rare volume, immaculate to behold and early: of great importance by textual content and engraved plates. Octavo. 17cm by 26cm. Finely bound in quarter green morocco leather with two raised bands by Sam Ellenport. Gilt edge titled "PREVENTING FORGERY OF BANK NOTES 1819". Complete, 72pp, plus three additional 57*, 58*, 59*. Six plates (one folding). Half title and full title page (named upper right).Printed by the order of the Society, with imprint T.C. Hansard, Printer. Etc... on title verso. Page 26, illustrated with Hansard’s Bank of England typographical protective micro-letter devices.
Plate I, opposite p32 : "T.C. Hansard’s Plan for a Typographic Bank Note". Printed on delicate paper with embossed central coat of arms. Plate II, opposite p38. Wide margin proof impression plate on card. Bank of England sample note, vignette of seated female center, various devices and text. Signed vignettes and imprint of Lambert, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Plate III, opposite p50. Vertical plate on card stock dated June 4, 1818 and titled. Central vignette of helmeted warrior (style of Heath, Perkins, Fairman) and enclosed in security lathe bands. Plate II, opposite p56. Folding plate of improved printing press. Plate V, opposite p58* intense lathe same for signature area of note by Richard Williamson (with interleave). Stunning. Plate VI, opposite p58* consecutive to last. Steel engraving on card for back of notes by Williamson. Cursive "ONE" center.
A fascinating work, complete and extremely rare and desirable thus. The interior condition is glorious, well printed and deeply embossed text pages. Plates choice overall with barest minimum of library soiling. All are now beautifully bound into a superbly crafted green morocco and complementary cloth volume. The first example we have enjoyed studying and cataloguing.
Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,500.00
To read the complete lot description, see:
"Report of the Committee of the SOCIETY OF ARTS ..."
(www.stacksbowers.com/BrowseAuctions/LotDetail/tabid/227/AuctionID/6066/Lot/2094/Default.aspx)
Lot 2096: Congreve’s 1820 Principals of Security Against Forgery
"An Analysis of The True Principals of Security Against Forgery; Exemplified By An Enquiry Into the Sufficiency of the American Plan For a New Bank Note; with Imitations of Four of the Most Difficult Specimens of those Notes, Made By Ordinary Means; By which it is proved that there is no adequate Security to be achieved in One Colour, in the present State of the Arts, and that the True Basis of Security is in the Due Application of Relief Engraving, and Printing in Two or More Colours". Sir William Congreve, Bart. Second Edition. London: 1820. Enclosed in Custom Three Quarter Morocco Solander Box. Very Fine.
Significant Volume of & Congreve’s "…Principals of Security Against Forgery…" or "..the American Plan for a New Bank Note."
A superb presentation of this rare and important volume, very well preserved. Enclosed within a custom large octavo (18cm by 26.5cm by 3cm deep) solander box with marbled interior; tan three quarter morocco leather, marbled paper covers. Five raised spine bands with two gilt titled compartments. PRINCIPALS OF SECURITY AGAINST FORGERY and below, SIR WILLIAM CONGREVE. Octavo, 16cm by 24cm. Contemporary brown boards. Complete. (2), x, viii, 39, (1) pages. Eleven engraved plates with tissue guards with one color. Inside front cover with armorial pastedown plate "Congreve of Congreve". Imprint of Whiting, verso of p39. Internally strong, bright pages. Covers and spine properly strengthened and preserved professionally.
Fascinating and understandable text of principals discussed and descriptions of the plates. Plate 1: Bank of the United States (2nd) counterfeit elements (India paper affixed to page). Plate 2: Ancient Greek Bust across, corners with Fairman. Heath female profile (identical to Perkins-Fairman plate previous volume). Plate 3: India paper elements on page, Ancient Greek bust center, various lathe. Plate 4: Wellington ovals repeating pattern (nearly identical to Plate 3 in Perkins-Fairman). Direct to card. Plate 5: India paper lathe elements on page, various. Plate 6: Full plate on card, allegorical vignettes and small vignette dies (style of Fairman, Draper, Underwood, Philadelphia, United States). Plate 7: India paper elements affixed to page, various lathe and elements. Plate 8: Bank of England sample note with Perkins elements and Fairman, Draper, Underwood style vignette. Perkins-Fairman ornate bordering. Plate 9: Bank of England note, similar in style to then current type
dated July 16, 1819. Direct to card. Plate 10: India paper elements affixed to page. One vignette and lathe strips. Plate 11: India paper elements affixed to page. Five intersecting lathe chain links. Fig. 1 in black on white and Fig.2 in full-three color Congreve pattern. Very important plate. All warm and bright.
Once again, the first we have studied in detail and catalogued. This significant work should elicit considerable interest from English and American collectors.
Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
To read the complete lot description, see:
"An Analysis of The True Principals of Security Against Forgery..."
(www.stacksbowers.com/browseauctions/lotdetail.aspx?AuctionID=6066&Lot=2096)
Lot 2097: Jacob Perkin’s 1821 "Prevention of the Forgery of Bank Notes"
"Prevention of the Forgery of Bank Notes" bound (with) "Warming and Ventilating Rooms, (with) Ventilating the Holds of Ships", (with) "Hose For Fire Engines", "Improved Ships’ Pump", (and with)"Drawing Off the Back Water from the Water Wheels". All Submitted and Awarded Essays by Jacob Perkins. [London], Various March Dates, 1820. Quarter Leather on Marbled Boards. Enclosed in Custom Three Quarter Morocco Solander Box. Very Fine.
Jacob Perkin’s "Prevention of the Forgery of Bank Notes" Finely and Uniquely Bound with Other Important Perkins Scientific Extracts
Presentation Copy to Charles Toppan, 1821
As are all the volumes in the collection, a masterful and well preserved presentation enhancing visual presentation with highest archival technology and artistry. The original Perkins contained within a large octavo (17.5cm by 24cm by 4cm deep) solander box, three quarter light brown morocco leather with matching covers and interior marbling. Raised bands separate compartments, contrasting leather labels that are gilt titled "Society of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce" below "Jacob Perkins". The original Perkins is octavo, 13.5cm by 21cm. Contemporary marbled boards with new quarter calf spine, straight gilt embossed bands. Complete. (2), 22 pages. Eight engraved plates, first two with tissue guards. Internally bright and choice. Some plates with hints of foxing here and there.
The book extremely well preserved and protected with strong leather binding upon the original boards boasting lovely original marbling. A presentation copy to Charles Toppan (cited by Hessler as a cousin, twice removed) with inscription as such on page (2): "Charles Toppan/London Feb’y 17, 1821".The bank note essay encompasses pages 1-10 with two engraved security printing plates following page 22. Plate 1 and 2: Opposite, identical, double plate with medallion profile female portrait, titled "PERKINS, FAIRMAN & HEATH/SIDEROGRAPHIA". Top vignette as used on FDU and British private notes. Britannia oval dies, lathe and ancient frieze (dies of course similar to those used in other titles’ plates). There are six plates relating to the mechanical transactions. Extremely important content on all fronts.
The bank note siderographic presentation directly relates to the Society of Arts, Perkins, Fairman and Heath and to the prior volumes. The other mechanical essays are of great importance as well and the genius Jacob Perkins gathered several prestigious medals, silver and gold for his work. This final Perkins volume completes a quartet that very much ties together as a suite of primary source material from the 1819-1820 siderographic technology presentations in London at that time. According to the consignor, this is the only such example known with the complete transactions of Perkin’s presentations to the Society of Arts and bound together. It is impressive to behold.
A unique and extremely important volume, presented to its fullest advantage with superb binding, presentation and custom solander box. Magnificent is clearly accurate, both aesthetically and historically.
Estimate: $7,000.00 - $9,000.00
To read the complete lot description, see:
"Prevention of the Forgery of Bank Notes"...
(www.stacksbowers.com/browseauctions/lotdetail.aspx?AuctionID=6066&Lot=2097)
What a stunning consignment! Be sure to check out all the lots online or in the catalog. These are seminal works in the history of anti-counterfeiting technology. I'd love to have even one of these in my library. Below is some additional information released by the consignor.
-Editor
The collection is the largest single offering of British Bank Note Engraving and Counterfeit Detection works ever offered at auction. The collection has focused on assembling the most complete collection of works with a focus on quality and preservation. The collection started nearly twenty years ago. Important early additions to the collection include selections from the Bowers & Merena Halpern/Warner sale 1997 and Boys Town Collection. A large portion of the collection reflects private treaty sales and works secured from non-numismatic sources. A few of the more recent acquisitions were secured from numismatic sources.
No expense was spared to ensure the long-term archival preservation of the collection. Many works in original binding have been preserved in exquisite leather solendar boxes or leather bindings.
NEW BOOK: CIVIL WAR SUTLER TOKENS, 2ND EDITION
Editor Rick Irons forwarded this press release with details on his new edition of the Schenkman book on U.S. Civil War Sutler tokens and scrip. Thanks! The recent Whitman guide to Civil War tokens includes sutlers, and the new edition of Schenkman should be a great deeper dive into the subject. I haven't seen either, and would welcome independent reviews from E-Sylum readers.
-Editor
Civil War Sutler Tokens & Cardboard Scrip
by David E. Schenkman
Second Edition Edited By Richard W. Irons
The 1st Edition of Civil War Sutler Tokens & Cardboard Scrip by David E. Schenkman was published in 1983. After over 30 years I thought it was time for a 2nd edition and when I found out it wasn’t on Dave Schenkman’s front burner I decided I really wanted to do it.
The book has large color pictures including at least one denomination of every variety (except for a few non-local’s (now called Unidentified) that haven’t been seen since the 1st edition. There are lots of new varieties as well as additional denominations for known varieties.
Steve Hayden is the Rarities and Valuations Editor – a number of rarities have been changed – both up and down – and there are estimated valuations for almost all the varieties. Revised rarities and valuations were developed by Steve Hayden from his database of over 3,000 Sutler token transactions over the last 20 years along with notes kept by Steve Tanenbaum while compiling his extensive collection of Sutler tokens. Also, many of the pictures are of tokens from the Tanenbaum Collection.
Retail price of $99.95
Hardcover
241 pages
Can be purchased by sending a check for $99.95 to -
Richard W Irons
P.O. Box 4482
Lancaster, PA 17604-4482
If there are any questions or if someone wants to pay using PayPal they can email me at
rwirons at comcast.net or go to
www.sutlertoken.com. This website will also be used to list any errors found in the book, new tokens discovered after the book is published and to post research on Sutler Tokens.
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NEW BOOK: GUIDE BOOK OF CIVIL WAR TOKENS, 2ND EDITION
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n43a03.html)
NEW BOOK: LA COLECCIÓN CERVERA, MONEDA ANTIQUA DE HISPANIA
The December 2014 issue of the ANS Enews announced a new book available from the American Numismatic Society.
-Editor
La Colección Cervera, Moneda Antiqua de Hispania
By: Ma Paz García-Bellido y William Metcalf
Con la participatión de Gloira Mora y la colaboración de Encarnación González
Published by:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and
Ediciones Polifemo
Madrid, 2014
Softcover, 468 pp.
(Spanish)
Bl & wh illustrations throughout
ISBN: 978-88-7794-835-9
Price:
Non-member price: US$90.00 plus shipping and handling
Member price: US$60.00 plus shipping and handling
Dealer price: US$60.00 contact the ANS Membership Office for details
The provenance of individual coins can sometimes be traced back to great collections of earlier centuries, but it is very rare that the entire contents of a coin collection from the nineteenth century are fully documented. It is fortunate for the numismatic community that one such instance is the outstanding collection formed by the Spanish ophthalmologist Rafael Cervera y Royo (1828–1903). In 1902, shortly before his death, Cervera sold his collection in its entirety to the great American Hispanophile Archer M. Huntington, along with a manuscript inventory listing the entire collection. That inventory, now at the American Numismatic Society in New York, together with the rubbings of Cervera’s collection made by Antonio Vives Escudero for his research on ancient Spanish coins, now at the Instituto Valencia de Don Juan in Spain, allowed María Paz García-Bellido and William E. Metcalf to identify the ancient coins from Cervera’s collection and match them with the photographs of
Archer Huntington’s collection.
This book catalogues the 1576 Iberian, Celtiberian, Greek, Hispano-Punic, and Roman Provincial coins from the Cervera collection, with every coin photographed and fully described. After the unfortunate dispersal of Archer Huntington’s collection in a series of sales since 2011, this book stands as the surviving monument to Cervera’s collection and the best resource for tracing its coins into the future. It is not only an astonishing time capsule of one of the great collections of nineteenth-century Spain; the importance of this collection for researchers working on early Hispanic coinage, from Vives to the present, makes this book an essential resource for any numismatist with an interest in ancient Spain.
For more information, or to order, see:
http://numismatics.org/Store/Cervera
BOOK REVIEW: CASH IN YOUR COINS, 2ND EDITION
Mike Marotta submitted this review of the new edition of Beth Deisher's
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