PETER MORRIS Dealer in Coins & Medals

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Ancient Coin Books

BOOKS

(Please add £3 per order for books, or collect from me at a Coin Fair).

 

 

NEW BOOKS

 

GREEK.

 

Greek coins and their values, D. Sear Volume 1 1997 page 1 - 316

£35

Greek coins and their values, D. Sear Volume 2 1996 page 317 - 762

£35

Greek Imperial coins and their values, D.Sear 1997 435pp

£45

Greek coins and their values, D. Sear Volume 1, second edition, 1978 316pp

£20

La Vie des monnaies grecques, Collection et placement. Vigne as new 1998 275pp

£45

After Marathon- war, society and money in fifth-century Greece, Wartenberg 1995 62pp

£7

Ancient Greek Portrait Coins, Carradice 1978 16pp

£3

Greek Coinage, Rutter 1983 Shire books

£3.50

Greek coins in the Berlin Pergamon Museum 1991 64pp, plus illus. (In German)

£6

Griechische Munzen, Gepflegte Spezialsammlung mit zahlreichen Raritaten

 

1986 59pp Spink Auction Zurich Profusely illustrated

£12

Disjecta membra, Two New Hellenistic Hoards from Greece, Touratsoglou, 1995 107pp

£20

Greek coins, Carradice 1995 112pp BM Press

£10

Aksumite Coinage, Munro-Hay & Juel-Jenson 1995 285pp 470 coins photographed

£30

An Introduction to Sassanian Coins, Sellwood, Whitting & Williams 1985 178pp

£35

+ 16 pages of b/w photos

 

Arabo-sasanidische Numismatik, Gaube 1973 171pp and 11 b/w plates (German)

£40

 

 

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 in this series is expected to appear possibly by the end of the year !

 

RECENT REPRINTS FROM SPINK'S :-

 

Roman Coins & their Values, 388pp 1988 edition redone in one volume (red d/w)..

£35

Roman Silver Coins - Vol 1, Republic to Augustus

£25

Roman Silver Coins - Vol 2, Tiberius to Commodus

£25

Roman Silver Coins - Vol 3, Pertinax to Balbinus & Pupienus

£25

Roman Silver Coins - Vol 4, Gordian III to Postumus

£25

Roman Silver Coins - Vol 5, Carausius to Romulus Augustus

£25

 

 

Life in Republican Rome on its coinage, Clain-Stefanelli 1999 135pp

£12

Coinage in Roman Britain, Reece 1987 144pp (Seaby Publ) Out of print

£18

Roman Provincial Coins, an Introduction to the Greek Imperials, Butcher 1988 138pp

£17

An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards, Robertson 2000 520pp

£65

The figures of Ancient Gods on the coinage of Constantine the Great (306-326 AD)

 

Christodoulou, 1997 86pp (Bilingual, English / Greek)

£12

Monnaies Romaines, Archeologie et Numismatique a Lyon, Audra and Mathey

 

1992 81pp (in French)

£18

Identifying Roman Coins, Reece and James 1986 60pp Spink publications

£15

Roman lead seals from finds in Trier - (German) by Leukel 1995

£30

The Roman Mint in Cologne, Zschucke (German) 1993 128pp

£20

Animals on Roman coins, R Stoll (German) 1992 123pp, plus section on bronze figs.

£18

History & Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27BC Sear 1998 Spink publ. 360pp

£50

Wealth of the Roman world Gold & Silver AD 300 - 700, Kent & Painter 1977 191pp

 

12 colour Plates, 269 illustrations & 5 maps

£30

Constantine - History, Historiography & Legend, Lieu & Montserrat 1998 238pp

£20

The Chalfont Hoard & other Roman coin hoards, Bland 1992 366pp +32 pp of b/w plates

£40

The Twelve Caesars, Graves 2001 ed. 318pp Case bound

£35

 

 

BYZANTINE.

 

Byzantine Coins and their values, D Sear 2nd edition 1996 526pp

£50

Biographical dictionary of the Byzantine Empire DM Nicol 1991 156pp

£18.50

Byzantine Coinage in its international setting, Grierson Fitzwilliam Museum 1990 16pp

£3

 

 

CELTIC.

 

Forgery of the Haslemere Hoard, Van Arsdell BNTA Publ. No 1 1986 14pp

£3

The Tribes & Coins of Celtic Britain, Pudill & Eyre 2005 81 pp. Soft-back with many

 

b/w and colour illustration; plus separate price-list.

£17

 

 

VARIOUS.

 

Guide to Biblical coins Hendin 3rd edition 1996

£45

The Art of Coins and their photography, an illustrated photographic treatise with an

 

introduction to numismatics, Hoberman 1981 395pp Spink publ

£75

British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum, Hobbs 1996 246pp + 137 b/w Plates

£40

Medicine on Ancient Greek & Roman coins, R.G. Penn 1994 186pp

£21

Exposing stamps of another coin, Hoberman 1993

 

34pp, many colour pictures & slip cover

£15

The Snettisham Roman Jeweller's Hoard, Johns 1997 128pp + illus

£18

Open of Dicht, Geschiedenis van sleutel en slot, Declercq, Lem and Vanloocke.

 

1998 96pp + illus (in Flemish) History of Ancient Keys and Locks

£20

The European Iron Age, Collins 1984 192pp + illus

£12

Collection Manuel Canovas Choix d'un Esthete - Auction Catalogue of 160 Coins

 

All illustrations in colour 1994 (in French)

£10

Antique Silver from Serbia, National Museum Belgrade 1994 384pp + b/w photos

£30

The Pyramids 1998 64pp Quantum books

£7

Ancient Egyptian Culture 1998 64pp Quantum books

£7

Great Coins and Medals, Babelon & (photos) Roubier, 1959 as new 37pp and

 

167 huge b/w photos. Stunning

£30

 

 

SECOND-HAND BOOKS.

 

Greek.

 

The Greek Coin (die Griechische Muenze) text by Franke, photos by Max Hirmer.

 

splendid coffe-table tome with copious black & white illustrations in the first half

 

of the book, interspersed with many huge colour plates of the loveliest coins.

 

1964 173 pp of text. (Photos took 10 years to put together !) In German……..

£150

Ancient Greek Coins, GK Jenkins 1972 310pp 679 enlarged illus, some in colour

£75

Greek coins - history of metallic currency & coinage C Seltman

 

1960 311pp + 64 plates editions 1 &2

£14

Masterpieces of Greek Coinage, Seltman 1949 128pp

£20

Greek coins and their values, D Sear 1966 2nd edition 220pp

£15

Greek Coins and their values, Volume 2: Asia and Africa, D Sear 1979 762pp

£25

An Outline of Ancient Greek Coins, Klawans 1964 206pp

£10

A Catalogue of Greek coins, G. Askew 1951 124pp

£9

Greek coins and their values, Seaby & Kozolubski 1959 157pp

£13

Greek coins & History - some current problems, Kraay 1969 81pp & 8 Plates

£10

Sicilia Numismatica - the coinage of Sicily, by W Giesecke 1923 (in German)

 

188 pages, plus 27 pages of plates. Rare and impressive.

£100

Greek coins of Sicily 1952 48 plates of coins, done by M Hirmer, plus German text

£9

Northern Greek coins, by Regling 1923 24pp, plus 12 pages of plates (German)

£5

Ancient coins, by Regling 2nd edition 1922 154pp, plus 240 illus. (German)

£10

Royal Greek Portrait Coins, Newell 1937 128pp

£20

Historical Greek Coins, Hill 1906 180pp

£15

How to read Greek Coins, Pennington 22pp

£3

Greek Coins and Cities, Davis 1967 221pp (Spink publ)

£40

Chefs-D'Oeuvre des Monnaies Grecques, Babelon 1952 39pp 48 plates

 

Folio-size, cased bound. Superb

£160

Die Schonsten Griechenmunzen Siziliens, Hirmer 1940 66pp (in German)

£8

L'Art Grec, Boardman 1964 286pp plus many colour illustrations (in French)

£16

Numismatic studies, Vermeule 1983 52pp

£7

Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian Coinage : The Early Indo-Greeks and their Antecedants

 

Vol. I, Mitchiner 1975 102pp, plus Vol. II, The Apogee of the Indo-Greeks 181pp

 

(both with many black & white Photos) The Pair …………

£45

A Guide to the principal coins of the Greeks - From Circ. 700 B.C. to A.D. 270,

 

Head (British Museum) 1965 108pp + 52 b/w plates

£20

 

 

Roman.

 

Roman coins-The World of Numismatics, Sutherland 1974 312pp (& 572 illustrations)

£80

Roman Silver Coins Vol. 1 Parts 1 & 2 The Republic to Augustus, Seaby 1952 137pp h/b

£12

Roman Silver Coins, Vol 1 Parts 1 & 2 The Republic to Augustus, Seaby 1967 ed 168pp h/b

£15

Roman Silver Coins Vol. 1 Part. 1 The Republic, Seaby 1952 92pp p/b

£6

Roman Silver Coins Vol. 1 Part. 2 Julius Caesar to Augustus, Seaby 1952 140pp p/b

£6

Roman Silver Coins Vol. 2 Parts 1 & 2 Tiberius to Commodus, Seaby 1954 186pp h/b

£12

Roman Silver Coins, Vol 2 Part 1 Tiberius to Domitian, Seaby 1954 53pp

£10

Roman Silver Coins Vol. 2 Part 2 Nerva to Commodus, Seaby 1955 186pp p/b

£6

A Catalogue of Roman Coins, Seaby 1936 55pp

£4

Roman Coins and their values, Sear 1974 2nd ed. 375pp + 12 b/w plates

£20

Scripta Nummaria Romana - essays presented to CMV Sutherland 1978

 

250pp + 24 plates edited by Carson & Kraay

£20

Roman Imperial Civilisation Mattingly 1959 312pp

£12

The Twelve Caesars, M Grant 1975 282pp

£12

Roman portraiture (Das Römische Bildnis), by Lanckoronski 1944

£10

The Fall of the Roman Empire - a re-appraisal M Grant 1976 336pp much illus as new

£15

Le Monete D'argento Della Repubblica Romana Varesi 1990 145pp (in Italian)

£20

Ships and parts of ships on Ancient Coins 1, The National Maritime Museum, Haifa,

 

1975 20pp 45 plates (bilingual English / Hebrew)

£18

Marine Motifs on Ancient Coins, at the National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Ringel

 

1984 95pp (bilingual English / Hebrew)

£18

Antiquities of Roman Britain, second edition BM Trustees 1958 86pp

£10

Romische Kaiserportrats im Munzbild, Hirmer 1961 50pp plus illus (in German)

£15

A Guide to the Exhibition of Roman Coins in the British Museum, 1927 84pp

 

+ 8 b/w plates and 11 figures

£8

A Guide to the Exhibition of Roman Coins in the British Museum 1963 72pp

£5

Bauten Roms auf Munzen und Medaillen 1973 270pp (in German)

£15

Mints, Dies and Currency, Carson 1971 336pp + 22 plates

£20

The Coinage of Roman Britain, G Askew 1951 95pp

£8

Roman Historical Portraits Toynbee 1978 208pp, plus 409 illus.

£25

Auction catalogue - Roman Gold Coins - Sotheby: Metropolitan Museum of Art, pt 1

 

sold in Zurich on 10th Nov. 1972 347 lots, all illustrated plus some colour.

£30

Collection de Medailles Romaines. Late 1800's 229pp Part 1- Roman to Trajan

 

(by Rollin & Fluardent) Leather-bound (in French)

£25

Ancient Jewish coins, Reifenberg 1947 66pp & 16 Plates

£16

Roman History from Coins, Grant 1958 96pp + 32 b/w plates

£5

The Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. 4 Part 2 Macrinus to Pupienus,

 

Mattingly, Sydenham & Sutherland 1962 216pp & 13 b/w plates

£25

 

 

Byzantine.

 

Byzantine coins and their values, D Sear 1974 1st edition 415pp

£25

Byzantine Coins, R Ratto 1974 reprint of the 1930 auction 151pp, plus 68 pages

 

of plates, and prices realised.

£65

Byzantine coins, The World of Numismatics, P.D. Whitting 1973

£80

311pp many b/w illustrations.

 

Coinage of the Byzantine Empire, Goodacre 1967 361pp

£25

 

 

Celtic.

 

Supplementary Gazetteer of Find-spots of Celtic coins in Britain 1977, C Haselgrove

 

1978 136pp. Useful list.

£10

The Ancient Civilisation of Celts and Gallo-Romans, Hatt 1970 333pp

 

69 colour photos and 150 b/w photos

£30

 

 

Various.

 

Picture book of Ancient coins, Reinfeld & Hobson 1966 64pp

£4

Guide to the Dept. of Greek & Roman Antiquities in the BM, 3rd edition 1908 219pp

 

plus 22 pages of plates. Nicely leather-bound on the edge.

£20

A guide to the department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum, 4th ed.

 

1934 99pp + 8 b/w plates

£5

Monnaies de Collection, en Bronze, en Argent et en Or 1965 332 plates (in French)

£4

Coins of Greece and Rome, Carson 1962 189pp 25 plates h/b

£10

Another, softback

£7

Greek and Roman Coins and the study of History, Milne 1939 128pp 17 plates

£10

Lectures on the Coinage of the Greeks and Romans, Cardwell 1832 238pp

£20

Primitive Money, The Coburg Museum Collection 68pp, plus many colour illustrations

 

1961 (in German) Primitives Geld - Vormunzliche Zahlungsmittel by Aumann

£8

Ancient Coins as Pieces of Art, Regling 1924 148pp & 45 Plates (in German)

 

- (German title -Die Antike Munze als Kunstwerk)

£75

Wealth of the Ancient World, Hunt Brothers Collections 1983 329pp many b/w illus.

£35

A Guide to the Archaeological Museum of Heraclion, Platon 1959 162pp

£13

Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum department of Coins and Medals -

 

A Guide to the principal gold and silver Coins of the Ancients, Head 1881 128pp

 

- Lovely leather binding

£30

A History of Ancient Coinage 700-300 BC, Litt 1975 464pp + 11 b/w plates

£10

La Numismatique - Valeur d'art et de placement, Weil and De La Perriere 1957 247pp

 

Signed by the authors (French)

£15

Art in Coinage - The aesthetics of money from Greece to the present day,

 

Sutherland 1955 223pp

£10

La numismatique antique, Wenger 1971 24pp

£3

Egyptian Pottery, Hope 1987 64pp & many b/w photos

£8

Egyptian Pyramids & Mastaba tombs of the Old & Middle Kingdoms,Watson 1987 64pp

£6

Egyptian Rock - Cut Tombs, Dodson 1991 64pp

£6