Matching Set of Newell’s Seleucid Mint Studies

Newell, Edward T. THE COINAGE OF THE EASTERN SELEUCID MINTS, FROM SELEUCUS I TO ANTIOCHUS III. New York: ANS, 1938. Frontispiece map; 307, (1) pages; 56 plates. [with] Newell, Edward T. THE COINAGE OF THE WESTERN SELEUCID MINTS, FROM SELEUCUS I TO ANTIOCHUS III. New York: ANS, 1941. Folding map; 450 pages; 85 plates. Two volumes. 4to, later maroon cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. Fine copies. The scarce original editions of Newell’s classic work. Numismatic Studies Nos. 1 and 4. Clain-Stefanelli 2880* and 2881*. Daehn 5405 (“A catalogue of 765 coin types of the first six Seleucid kings minted at Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Babylon, Susa, Persepolis-Istakhr, Ecbatana, Bactra, Hecatompylus [or Artacoana], and uncertain Eastern mints”) and 5407 (“Presents a catalogue of 1701 coin types of the first six Seleucid kings minted at Carrhae, Edessa, Nisibis, Dura-Europus, Antigonea on the Orontes, Seleucia Pieria, Antioch-on-the-Orontes, Apamea, Laodicea ad Mare, Marathus, Tyre, Ascalon, Damascus, Tarsus, Seleucia-on-the-Calycadnus, Cappadocia and Northern Syria, Sardes, Magnesia ad Sipylum, Magnesia-on-the-Maeander, Ephesos, Smyrna, Phocea, Aegae, Cyme, Myrian, Pergamum, Lampsacus, Abydus, Ilium, Alexandria Troas, Scepsis, Sigeum, Lysimachia in Thrace, and various uncertain mints”). Grierson 65. Kroh 42 (five stars).