Here are some major ancient-Greek-coin reference works for sale. I believe they are already priced less, sometime much less, than anywhere else. Mention you saw them here at CoinTalk and I will take off another ten percent this week (until July 27). Coinage in the Greek World, Carradice and Price. An excellent work by major scholars on Greek coinage and its development. Seaby Books. 164 pages. 16 page plates. Hardcover. New. I think this is a great way to learn about Greek coinage. I love this book. Highly recommended. [$24 SOLD] An Outline of Ancient Greek Coins, by Zander Klawans. Small-format hardcover. 206 pages. Usually four coins illustrated per page. This is a book many older collectors began with. "Greek" includes Roman provincial. [$3 SOLD] Coinage of the Western Seleucid Mints, Edward Newell, excellent 1977 brown hardcover reprint edition as ANS Numismatic Studies #4 with recent scholarship by Otto Morkholm. 450 pages, LXXXV plates. On Amazon at $169 and $250. Here [$65, reduced to $49]. This is a really nice copy. "Money and its uses in the Ancient Greek World" edited by Andrew Meadows and Kirsty Shipton. 9 articles totaling 165 pages plus 19 plates, cardcover, large 10 3/4" by 8 1/2", Oxford University Press, 2001. $79.95 in very good condition on Amazon. Here, nearly new but for a long crease in the lower right of the cover. Reduced to $42 + $4 media-mail shipping. SNG FRANCE 3. PAMPHYLIE, PISIDIE, LYCAONIE, GALATIE Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 1994, 34 pages, 146 plates each with facing text, tall quarto, red cloth, dust jacket. [Very good, former owner's name on flyleaf, but that's all. Dust jacket very good. $65 + $5 media-mail shipping. A second copy with inked notes on the some of descriptions opposite the plates in the first half of the book. Not bad, but if you hate a marked text, not for you. However, the plates themselves and text are all just fine, and the dustjacket is fine too. $50 + $5 media-mail shipping, reduced to $45+5 (this book is more than worth it if you collect any coins from that region).] SNG FRANCE 6 - 1; ITALIE; ETRURIE - CALABRE Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 2003, 91 pages, 141 plates each with facing text, tall quarto, red cloth, dust jacket. [$110 + $6 media-mail shipping, reduced to $90+6] Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora, American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 34 page pamphlet with illustrations of over 150 coins found. [$9.95 elsewhere, $2 here.] 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 here, reduced to $6] The New Style Coinage of Athens by Margaret Thompson Volume I, 747 pages Volume II, 202 page plates plus 2 fold outs totaling 24 pages of obverse photos showing evidence for links Very good condition. Very slight fading on spine as usual. No marks but for one small note on volume 1, back-inside flyleaf. A really nice copy costing less than one nice coin of the type. Large hardcover. [$385 plus $8 media-mail shipping in the US only, reduced to $325+8.] ANSON, L. NUMISMATA GRAECA: GREEK COIN-TYPES CLASSIFIED FOR IMMEDIATE IDENTIFICATION. Anson, L. Numismata Graeca: Greek Coin-Types Classified for Immediate Identification. (London, 1910-1916.) Forni reprint (the reprint date is not given, but it looks very old). Thirteen parts bound in two volumes. 887 pages (coin number, place, obverse, reverse, size, weight, denomination date place in plate volume, and citations to BMC, Mionnet, etc) with 150 plates. An excellent resource for the identification of thousands of Greek coins with inanimate objects as types. Dark green cloth covers. Very good condition. I think of it as a way to see what is out there associated with various themes. What might you collect? Weapons? Temples. Agricultural implements? Marine animals? Grapes? Altars? 150 large plates organized by type of depiction. Spectacular! Massive! 10" x 13", 3" thick. [$389 + $10 media-mail shipping in the US only, reduced to $325+10] SNG ANS Sicily III: Syracuse-Siceliotes (Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society, Part 5, by Denyse Berend. Note: This includes Syracuse with some of the finest coins of all. Hardcover, folio (15 1/4" x 11 3/4"; you need a tall shelf), NEW, in shrink wrap. One copy on Amazon at $155 (ignore the second copy listed at $485). Here, $119 + $7 shipping (it is large and awkward to ship) media-mail in the US only. Reduced to $59 + $7 shipping and well worth it. Die Münzprägung Milets [Miletos] vom vierten bis ersten Jahrhundert v. Chr (Typos V), by Barbara Deppert-Lippitz. Hardcover in German. 223 pages plus 36 plates. The comprehensive book on coins of Miletos from this period. Nearly new. [$35, reduced to $27] Probleme der fruhen Electronpragung, by Liselotte Weidauer (Typos I). Hardcover in German. 114 pages plus 29 plates. Nearly new. Important for early electrum coinage [$35, reduced to $25] Testimonia Nummaria, volume 1, by John Melville-Jones. Hardcover. 544 pages. 1993. "most of the ancient texts that might be considered relevant to the study of ancient Greek coinage," in the original Greek (on the left pages) translated into English on the facing pages, nicely categorized. A good reference for casually reading or for scholarly work. What did the Greeks write that concerns coins? Find it here. $218 used on Amazon and abebooks. An excellent copy with only the former owner's name on the in flyleaf, here [$155, reduced to $109]. Volume 2, not offered, but sometimes available, has commentary by Melville-Jones. Stories of the Greeks, Rex Warner. Hardcover. 405 pages. very nice condition with no marks. All the famous mythological stores told in prose. Get a Greek education and find out about all those Greek gods without reading Greek! (not coins) [$2] A. Heiss, Description générale des Monnaies Antique de l'Espagne 1870, Forni Reprint (The date of the reprint is not given in the book, but it looks old), in one large volume, 548 pages plus 68 plates of line drawings. Text in French. 9" by 12". 2" thick. Maroon hardcover. No marks. Some foxing. Very good condition. Remarkably nice. As far as I can tell, it is unavailable elsewhere and sold for $300 + fees in a 2012 auction. [$265, reduced to $165] SHIPPING: In the US only! $3.50 for one and and additional 50 cents for each additional volume.
