Evans on Syracusan Dekadrachms

Evans, Arthur J. SYRACUSAN “MEDALLIONS” AND THEIR ENGRAVERS IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT FINDS. First printing, as part of the 1891 volume of the Numismatic Chronicle [Third Series, Volume XI, entire volume present]. 8vo, contemporary gray cloth-backed mottled boards, gilt. viii, 429, (1) +32 + 14 pages; 16 fine plates [Evans’s work comprises pages 205–376 and Plates 9–15]. Very good or better. The first printing of this still-important work. Daehn 3138: “Evans comments on the artistry of the Syracusan decadrachms of Kimon and Euanetos. Then he describes a Greek hoard found in Sicily in 1890 which included 67 decadrachms as well as coins of Motya and Messina. One of the decadrachms includes the signature of Euanetos fully spelled-out.”