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A New Table of Countermarks by Hans Wilski, published by Kinzelbach in 2002, is a highly useful specialised reference devoted to the study of countermarks and countermarked coins, expanding upon the author?s earlier work on Ottoman material while standing fully on its own as an important independent catalogue. Incorporating new discoveries, corrected readings, improved drawings, and clearer illustrations, the volume offers a comprehensive...

Group lot of 6 books, coin collecting, history, and attribution aids. A varied and useful group bringing together introductory works on money and coinage, practical guidance on the care and arrangement of collections, and specialist references helpful for attribution and historical context. Included are: (1) A Short History of Coins and Currency, Lord Avebury, Home and School Library, an early popular survey of money and coinage; (2) Coin...

Ancient coins and museum collections. (1) Coins of the Ancient World. Richard L. Currier (1980). Library binding, a general survey introduction to ancient coinage for the non-specialist reader. (2) Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, Classical Collection catalogue, a useful museum guide to the Nicholson classical holdings for reference and context. (3) Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, Egyptian Collection catalogue, a companion...

An interesting specialist numismatic reference group comprising Catalogue of Coins of the Roman Empire in the Ashmolean Museum, Part I, Augustus (c. 31 B.C.-A.D. 14) by C.H.V. Sutherland and C.M. Kraay; Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, The Burton Y. Berry Collection, Part II, Megaris to Egypt (1962); Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Sammlung Dreer, Klagenfurt im Landesmuseum fur Karnten, I. Teil, Italien-Sizilien (1967); Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum,...

The British Numismatic Journal, group of 8 books, a consecutive run from 2005 to 2012, comprising (1) 2005, Volume 75, including the Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society for the year 2004, edited by D. J. Symons and P. de Jersey; (2) 2006, Volume 76, including the Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society for the year 2005, edited by D. J. Symons and P. de Jersey; (3) 2007, Volume 77, including the Proceedings of the British...

Islands of Angry Ghosts. Hugh Edwards. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1966. First UK edition (reproduced from the US edition). 8vo hardback in black cloth with pictorial dust jacket, c. 200 pp, illustrated with photo plates by Maurie Hammond and maps, with bibliography and index. A classic account of the 1629 wreck of the VOC flagship Batavia off the Houtman Abrolhos and the ensuing mutiny and massacres, drawing closely on contemporary...

Medieval Slavic Coinages in the Balkans. Hardcover, Dobrinic, Julijan, and Martin Dimnik. 15 January 2019. An important and very useful modern reference, written to give the English-speaking reader a clear general survey of the medieval Slavic coinages of the Balkans as a whole. Rather than focusing narrowly on one ruler, one mint, or one hoard, it brings together current scholarship in a single volume and offers a practical catalogue of...

Medieval Coins of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland by George Frynas, published by Spink Books in 2015, is a major modern reference and the first catalogue of its kind to unite the medieval coinages of Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland within a single volume, covering the rich and varied issues of the 10th to the 15th centuries. Based on the latest scholarship and updated attributions, it illustrates more than 1600 coin types and includes over 80 new...

Classic Chinese Charms. Shanghai: Wen Hua Publishing House (Wen Hua), circa 2011. Large 4to, hardcover in pictorial boards, bilingual Chinese English text, colour throughout on coated art paper. A well photographed reference on Chinese charms and amulets, ranging from early pieces through late Qing and Republic material, arranged by purpose and motif, including auspicious inscription types, zodiac and calendrical charms, marriage and...

Cast Chinese Amulets by David Hartill, hardcover, 2020. A substantial and highly practical reference devoted to the long and fascinating tradition of Chinese cast amulets, covering pieces produced over more than two thousand years in bronze and brass, from cash-shaped charms to openwork, pictorial, zodiac and inscriptional types. Hartill arranges the material for ease of identification, with finding guides based on visible features and...

Cast Chinese Gaming Pieces by David Hartill, published by New Generation Publishing in 2022, is a useful and attractive specialised reference devoted to an area often overlooked in the standard literature on Chinese cast objects, focusing on pieces whose primary function was gaming rather than amuletic use. Intended to complement Hartill?s earlier work on cast Chinese amulets, this concise volume covers horse coins, chess pieces, select-an-...

Unpublished Coins of the Medieval Kingdom of Cyprus A useful and historically important reference on the medieval coinage of Cyprus, this 1980 reprint of the original 1873 edition by Paul Lambros preserves one of the earliest catalogues devoted to the series, covering the coinage of the Kingdom of Cyprus from 1184 to 1571. Published originally by K. N. Sathas in Vienna, the work combines historical background with a catalogue of the issues,...