PETER MORRIS Dealer in Coins & Medals
Ancient
Books
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| BOOKS | |
| (Please add £5 per order for books, or collect from me at the shop or at a Coin Fair). | |
| NEW BOOKS | |
| GREEK. | |
| Spink - Living History : | |
| Volume 1 : Greek Civic Coins & Tribal issues. D. Sear 2020 495 pp Just out | £50 |
| Volume 2 : Regal Coins of the Hellenistic Age. D Sear 2023 Just out | £50 |
| Greek coins and their values, D. Sear Volume 1 Europe 1997 pages 1 - 316 | £45 |
| Greek coins and their values, D. Sear Volume 2 Asia & Africa 1996 pages 317 - 762 | £45 |
| Coinage in the Greek World, Carradice & Price 2010 154 pp | £15 |
| ROMAN. | |
| Volume 1 - Roman coins and their values, D Sear Millennium edition, 2000 | |
| complete re-working of the old red RCV. 280BC to AD96 532pp 1200+ illus. | £45 |
| Volume 2 - Roman coins and their values, D Sear 2002 | |
| AD 96 to AD235 696 pp + numerous photographic illustrations | £65 |
| Volume 3 - Roman coins and their values, D Sear 2005 | |
| AD 235 - 285 536 pp + b/w pictures throughout. | £45 |
| Volume 4 - Roman Coins and their Values, D Sear 2011 | |
| AD 284 - 337 552 pp + numerous b/w photos throughout. Invaluable, as the others | £45 |
| Volume 5 - Roman Coins and their Values, D Sear 2014 | |
| AD 337 - 491. 575 pp. As all the other 4 volumes, fully illustrated. | £50 |
| Roman Silver Coins - Vol 1, Republic to Augustus 3rd edition 1978 166 pp | £25 |
| Roman Silver Coins - Vol 2, Tiberius to Commodus 3rd edition 2004 255 pp | £25 |
| Roman Silver Coins - Vol 3, Pertinax to Balbinus & Pupienus 2nd ed. 1982 161 pp | £25 |
| Roman Silver Coins - Vol 4, Gordian III to Postumus 2nd ed. 1982 137 pp | £25 |
| Roman Silver Coins - Vol 5, Carausius to Romulus Augustus 2004 214 pp | £25 |
| Special - set of all 5 volumes in the RSC series, published by Seaby - volumes 1 to 5 ............. | £110 |
| (Most of the above RSC volumes are now out-of-print - we have only the one copy of each) | |
| Coinage in the Roman World, Burnett 2010 168 pp | £15 |
| A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins, Melville-Jones, Spink 2004 329 pp. A to Z. | £40 |
| An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards, Robertson / Hobbs/Buttrey RNS pub'n 2000 | |
| huge A4 tome 520 pages. An excellent reference, listing 1750 hoards. (postage +£8) | £50 |
| Identifying Roman Coins, Reece and James 1986 60pp Spink publications | £14 |
| The Pattern of Bronze Coinage under Constantine I, JPC Kent 1957 77pp with | |
| 8 plates; Doris Stockwell Memorial papers no. 3 | £10 |
| Wealth of the Roman world Gold & Silver AD 300 - 700, Kent & Painter 1977 191pp | |
| 12 colour Plates, 269 illustrations & 5 maps | £25 |
| Ancient Coin Collecting III - Roman World : Politics & Propaganda. Sayles (Krause) | |
| 1997 198 pp. (Aimed at the US collectors market). | £15 |
| Ancient Coin Collecting IV - Roman Provincial Coins. Sayles (Krause) | |
| 1998 198 pp, similar format to the above | £15 |
| Ancient Coin Collecting V - Romaion / Byzantine Culture Sayles (Krause) 1998 197 pp | £15 |
| Roman Silver Coins - a price Guide, R. Plant 3rd edition 2009 100 pp (Rotographic) | £5 |
| Another, 1st edition 2005, as above 96pp | £3 |
| Roman Base Metal Coins, a price Guide, R. Plant 3rd ed. 2006 82pp (Rotographic) | £5 |
| Another, 2nd edition 2005, as above 80pp | £2 |
| Animals on Roman coins, R Stoll (German) - Tiere auf Romische Munzen : | |
| 1992 123 pp, plus section on bronze figures. | £15 |
| BYZANTINE. | |
| Byzantine Coins and their values, D Sear 2nd revised & enlarged edition 1996 526pp | £50 |
| Beginner's guide to identifying Byzantine coins; Prue M Fitts Spink 2015 133 pp | £25 |
| CELTIC. | |
| Celtic coinage of Britain, RD Van Arsdell Spink 1989 584 pp plus 54 b/w plates. | |
| Long out-of-print and very desirable. | £95 |
| Currencies of the Anglo-Norman Isles, McCammon Spink 1984 365 pp. Parts 1 and 2 | |
| cover Armorican and Celtic, plus Romans, Merovingians, Carolingians & medieval. | £40 |
| Forgery of the Haslemere Hoard, Van Arsdell BNTA Publ. No 1 1986 14pp | £5 |
| Coinage in the Celtic World D Nash 2004 153pp | £15 |
| VARIOUS. | |
| The Anglo-Galllic Coins, ER Duncan Elias 1984 262 pp; now out-of=print. | £25 |
| Handbook of Ancient Greek & Roman Coins, Klawans (Bressett). Whitman 1995 288pp | £15 |
| The Art of Coins and their photography, an illustrated photographic treatise with an | |
| introduction to numismatics, Hoberman 1981 395pp Spink publ | £40 |
| A Handbook of Islamic coins, M Broome 2010 230 pp | £15 |
| Early World Coins & Early Weight Standards, Rbt Tye 2009 183 pp A4 format, softback | £20 |
| Medicine on Ancient Greek & Roman coins, R.G. Penn 1994 186pp | £18 |
| Great Coins and Medals, Babelon & (photos) Roubier, 1959 as new 37pp and | |
| 167 huge b/w photos. Stunning | £25 |
| SECOND-HAND BOOKS. | |
| Greek. | |
| Greek Coin Types & their Identification, R Plant Seaby 1979 343 pp. Invaluable. | £25 |
| Ancient Greek Coins, GK Jenkins 1972 310pp 679 enlarged illus, some in colour | £45 |
| Sassanian coins WH Valentine 1993 reprint 118 pp, all from hand-written script ! | £30 |
| An introduction to Sasanian coins, Sellwood, Whitting & Williams. 1985 178 pp Hand-written | £50 |
| An introduction to The coinage of Parthia, David Sellwood, Spink 1980 322 pages | |
| - as the tome above, written entirely in hand-written script with line-drawings. Immense | £75 |
| Greek coins & History - some current problems, Colin Kraay 1969 81pp & 8 plates | £8 |
| Greek Coins and Cities, Davis 1967 221pp (Spink publ) | £35 |
| Royal Greek Portrait Coins, Newell 1937 128pp | £20 |
| A Guide to the principal coins of the Greeks - From circ. 700 B.C. to A.D. 270, | |
| Barclay Head (British Museum) 1965 108pp + 52 b/w plates | £20 |
| Northern Greek coins, by Regling 1923 24pp, plus 12 pages of plates (German) | £5 |
| Sicilia Numismatica - the coinage of Sicily, by W Giesecke 1923 (in German) | |
| 188 pages, plus 27 pages of plates. Rare and impressive. | £50 |
| La Vie des Monnaies Grecques, JB Vigne 1988 275 pp | £35 |
| Roman. | |
| A Dictionary of Roman Numismatics, Seth Stevenson. 1964 - 1st Seaby reprint of the 1889 | |
| original - 929 pages, with 700+ illustrations. The only A - Z you'll need. | £45 |
| Roman Silver Coins, Vol 1 The Republic to Augustus, Seaby 1978 ed 168pp h/b | £15 |
| RSC, volume 2, as above. 1991 255 pp | £15 |
| RSC, volume 3, as above. 1982 160 pp | £15 |
| RSC, volume 5, as above. 1990 214 pp | £15 |
| Roman History from Coins, M Grant 1958 96pp 32 plates | £8 |
| Roman Mythology, S Perowne 1969 141 pp Hamlyn books. Mostly statues & Mosaics. | £20 |
| The Chalfont Hoard - and other Roman coin hoards, ed. R Bland 11992 366 pp + 32 plates | £30 |
| Essays Presented to Humphrey Sutherland - Scripta Nummaria Romana. Spink 1978 | |
| 15 numismatic essays on Roman numismatics, edited by Carson and Kraay. | £25 |
| Byzantine. | |
| Byzantine coins, The World of Numismatics, P.D. Whitting 1973 311pp; b/w illus. | £45 |
| Various. | |
| Coins - an illustrated survey 650 BC to the present day - ed. Martin J Price. Large folio | |
| "coffee table" tome. 1971 320 pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout, with chapters written by | |
| eminent numismatists (Carradice, Burnett, Nash, Kent, Grierson, Besly, Buttry, Sellwood.....) | £75 |
| The World Guide to Antiquities, S Kurtz 1975 324 pp - 300+ lovely colour illustrations. | £50 |
| Wealth of the ancient World - the Nelson Bunker Hun & William Herbert Hunt Collections - | |
| 1983 329 pp. Greek & Roman antiquities and coins, many illustrations. | £30 |
| Coins in History - John Porteous 1969 251 pp. (Lots on the ancients and medieval) | £15 |
| Coins - pleasures & treasures, John Porteous 1964 128 pp. Section on ancients. | £8 |
| Rom und Byzanz - archaeological treasures from Bavaria. (in German) 1998 256 pp | |
| by Wamser & Zahlhaas Mostly antiquities from the Munich museum exhibition. | £50 |
| Coins of Greece and Rome, RAG Carson, 1971 189 pp plus 25 plates showing 391 coins | £12 |
| Another copy, as above, but this one is softback. Otw identical | £9 |
| The Story of Money - how money began and how it works. Whitehead & Baskerville 1975 | |
| 48 pp. Lots of colour and illustrations. (Aimed at the younger reader). | £8 |