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United States Numismatics Sale 156 IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC LITERATURE Featuring Material from the Libraries of Phil Carrigan, Dan Freidus and Doug Robins Mail Bid & Live Online Auction Saturday, May 30 at 12:00 Noon Eastern Time Place bids and view lots online at BID.NUMISLIT.COM Absentee bids placed by post, email, fax or phone due by midnight Friday, May 29. Absentee bids may be placed online at any time before the sale. 141 W. Johnstown Road • Gahanna, Ohio 43230 (614) 414-0855 • Fax (614) 414-0860 • numislit.com • [email protected] Terms of Sale 1. This is an online and mail-bid sale. Absentee bids will be accepted by mail, fax, email and phone until the day before the live online sale. On the day of the live online sale, only bids placed via the live online platform will be accepted: no phone, fax, email or mail bids can be entered on the day of the sale. 2. All lots will be sold to the highest bidder at the time of the sale. All bids (whether placed online or by mail, fax, email or phone) will be treated as limits and lots will be purchased below these limits where competition permits. 3. Absentee bidders should be mindful that bids submitted in irregular increments may be rounded to a lower bid to comply with the online platform’s established bidding increments. 4. Unless exempt by law, the buyer will be required to pay 7.5% sales tax on the total purchase price of all lots delivered in Ohio. Purchasers may also be liable for compensating use taxes in other states, which are solely the responsibility of the purchaser. Foreign bidders may be required to pay duties, fees or taxes in their respective countries, which are also the responsibility of the bidders. 5. This is not an approval sale. Any claims for adjustment by bidders must be made within three days after receipt of lots purchased. No lots may be returned without our written permission. By submitting bids you agree to the Terms of Sale. 6. Bidders unknown to us must supply acceptable credit references or a 25% deposit to assure entry of their bids. Registration of unknown bidders on the live online platform will constitute approval only when the bidder provides an acceptable credit card number with registration. 7. This is a reserve auction. The estimates of value are intended solely as a guide. Starting prices for this sale are at approximately two-thirds of estimate, though this may vary. Kolbe & Fanning reserve the right to purchase items in this sale for customers or stock at their discretion. 8. A buyer’s premium of 20% will be added to the cost of all lots purchased. 9. We reserve the right to withdraw any lot prior to sale for any reason. 10. All postage, insurance and shipping charges will be added to the buyer’s invoice. There will be a $3.00 charge per lot for processing. 11. A late payment fee of 2% per month will be charged on accounts remaining unpaid 30 days after the sale. 12. This sale is conducted in U.S. dollars. Payment may be made by check, money order, credit card, PayPal or wire transfer. All checks must be in U.S. dollars and drawn on U.S. banks. Our bank account details will be provided on request for wire transfers, and any bank charges must be paid by the sender. 13. Lots to be mailed to addresses not in the United States or its Territories will be sent only at the risk of the purchaser. When pos- sible, postal insurance will be obtained. Packages covered by private insurance will be so covered at a cost of 1% of total value, to be paid by the buyer. 14. Title to all lots remains with the cataloguer until paid for in full. Payment must be made immediately upon notification or upon receipt of material. The discretionary right to withhold delivery of lots until full payment has been received is reserved. 15. All lots are as described. We acknowledge the possibility of errors or typographical mistakes, and any errors on our part will be cheerfully corrected. We cannot be responsible for your errors; please check your bid sheet carefully. 16. Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers LLC are licensed by the State of Ohio Department of Agriculture (license 2011000028) as an auction firm, and are bonded as required by law in favor of the State of Ohio. BOOK SIZES BOOK CONDITIONS F° (folio) over 13 inches As new — no signs of wear or defects. 4to (quarto) 12 inches Fine — nice clean copy, slight signs of use. 8vo (octavo) 9 inches Very good — some wear, no serious defects. 12mo (duodecimo) 7–8 inches Good — average used and worn book, complete. 16mo (sextodecimo) 6–7 inches Reading copy — poor but readable. 24mo (vigesimoquarto) 5–6 inches Ex-library — with library identification marks. 32mo (trigesimosecundo) 4–5 inches Unless stated otherwise, all books are bound; all periodicals and auction sale catalogues are in the original paper covers. Books without descriptions of condition may be assumed to be nice clean copies in the octavo range. Sizes are not always noted for auction catalogues and periodicals. All serious defects are noted. © 2020 Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers 3 ANCIENT NUMISMATICS Very Scarce 1847 Senckler Sale 1941 Kolophon and Its Coinage: A Study; Castelin’s 1946 The Coinage 1 Alliance des Arts. CATALOGUE DES MÉDAILLES RO- of Rhesaena in Mesopotamia; Boyce’s 1947 Coins of Tingi with Latin MAINES EN OR, ARGENT ET BRONZE, COMPOSANT LA Inscriptions; Philip V. Hill’s 1949 ‘Barbarous Radiates’: Imitations of COLLECTION DE M. LE MAJOR SENCKLER, DE COLOGNE. Third-Century Roman Coins; Levi’s 1952 Barbarians on Roman Im- Paris: Bureau de l’Alliance des Arts, 22 novembre 1847 et jours suiv- perial Coins and Sculpture; Kraay’s 1956 The Aes Coinage of Galba; ants. 8vo, removed from previous binding. viii, 368, (4) pages, inter- Buttrey’s 1956 The Triumviral Portrait Gold of the Quattuorviri Mon- leaved with blue ruled paper; 6984 lots; handwritten index follow- etales of 42 B.C.; Cox’s 1959 Coins from the Excavations at Curium, ing. Occasional handwritten annotations. Text block only, still sewn, 1932–1953; Adelson & Kustas’s 1962 A Bronze Hoard of the Period of but with no remnant of prior binding. Very good if bound. $100 Zeno I; Bellinger & Berlincourt’s 1962 Victory as a Coin Type; Caley’s Rare: not in the ANS Library. According to Engel & Serrure, Senckler 1964 Orichalcum and Related Ancient Alloys; Abaecherli Boyce’s 1965 was an “officier de l’armée prussienne.” The sale is cited by Mommsen Festal and Dated Coins of the Roman Empire: Four Papers; Caley’s (Volume IV, page clxii) and Babelon (Volume I, column 330). 1965 Metrological Tables; Eddy’s 1967 The Minting of Antoniniani A.D. 238–249 and the Smyrna Hoard; Fagerlie’s 1967 Late Roman Scarce Works by Allotte de la Fuÿe and Byzantine Solidi Found in Sweden and Denmark; MacDowall’s 2 Allotte de la Fuÿe, F.M. UNE MONNAIE DU TYRAN DO- 1979 The Western Coinages of Nero; and Metcalf’s 1996 The Silver MITIANUS. Paris: Extrait de la Revue Numismatique, 1901. 8 Coinage of Cappadocia, Vespasian–Commodus. Varying formats, all pages; text illustration. [bound with] Allotte de la Fuÿe, F.M. LA in original bindings. Generally near fine or better. $300 DYNASTIE DES KAMNASKIRÈS. Paris: Extrait de la Revue Nu- Includes a number of important works. Numismatic Notes and Mono- mismatique, 1902. 25, (1) pages; 1 fine plate of coins. [bound with] graphs, Nos. 6, 17, 28, 49, 50, 54, 55, 60, 69, 80, 85, 90, 94, 96, 108, 109, Allotte de la Fuÿe, F.M. MONNAIES DE L’ÉLYMAÏDE. Paris: 112, 123, 133, 137, 145, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 156, 157, 161, and 166. Imprimerie Orientale G. Maurin, September 1904. 12 pages; text illustrations. [bound with] Allotte de la Fuÿe, F.M. MONNAIES Monographs on Ancient Greek Coins ARSACIDES SURFRAPPÉES. Paris: Extrait de la Revue Numis- 4 American Numismatic Society [publisher]. NUMISMATIC matique, 1904. 25, (1) pages; 1 fine plate of coins. [bound with] NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS ON ANCIENT GREEK COINS. Allotte de la Fuÿe, F.M. NOUVEAU CLASSEMENT DES MON- New York, 1921–1990. Thirty titles: Newell’s 1921 The First Seleucid NAIES ARSACIDES D’APRÈS LE CATALOGUE DU BRITISH Coinage of Tyre; Hill’s 1922 Attambelos I of Characene; Newell’s 1923 MUSEUM. Paris: Extrait de la Revue Numismatique, 1904. 57, (1) Alexander Hoards: Andritsaena; Noe’s 1925 A Bibliography of Greek pages; 2 fine plates of coins. [bound with] Allotte de la Fuÿe, F.M. Coin Hoards; Newell’s 1925 Mithradates of Parthia and Hyspaosines MONNAIES ARSACIDES DE LA COLLECTION PETROW- of Characene: A Numismatic Palimpsest; Newell’s 1926 Some Unpub- ICZ. Paris: Extrait de la Revue Numismatique, 1905. 43, (1) pages; lished Coins of Eastern Dynasts; Newell’s 1927 Two Recent Egyptian 1 fine plate of coins. [bound with] Allotte de la Fuÿe, F.M. OBSER- Hoards; Rogers’s 1927 The Second and Third Seleucid Coinage of VATIONS SUR LA NUMISMATIQUE DE LA PERSIDE. Paris, Tyre; Bellinger’s 1930 Two Hoards of Attic Bronze Coins; Hill’s 1930 Extrait du Journal Asiatique, 1907. 19, (1) pages. Contemporary On the Coins of Narbonensis with Iberian Inscriptions; Newell’s 1931 russet cloth and mottled boards; spine lettered in gilt. Remnants The Küchük Köhne Hoard; Ravel’s 1932 Corinthian Hoards (Corinth of spine label. Very good or better. $100 and Arta); Newell’s 1933 The Fifth Dura Hoard; Milne’s 1934 The Brings together several rare offprints of Allotte de la Fuÿe.
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