Festschrift for Barclay Head
[Head, Barclay V.]. Hill, George F. [editor]. COROLLA NUMISMATICA: NUMISMATIC ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF BARCLAY V. HEAD. London: Oxford, 1906. Tall 8vo, contemporary blue three-quarter morocco, gilt; spine with five raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt; top page edges gilt. Fine frontispiece portrait; xvi, 386, (2) pages; title printed in red and black; table of legends; text figures; 18 fine plates of coins. Binding extremities rubbed; else near fine. An important festschrift. Articles include Adrien Blanchet’s “La Minerve de Massalia,” Herbert Grueber’s “The Coinage of Luceria,” Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer’s “Syrakosai–Lysimachos–Derdas,” Edward Rapson’s “Coins of the Graeco-Indian Sovereigns Agathocleia, Strato I Soter, and Strato II Philopater,” George MacDonald’s “Fixed and Loose Dies in Ancient Coinage,” George F. Hill’s “Dryops at Asine,” Charles Oman’s “The Chronological Sequence of the Coins of Corinth,” Ernest Babelon’s “Une obole au nom d’Hippias,” Théodore Reinach’s “Achilles on Thessalian Coins,” Arthur J. Evans’s “Minoan Weights and Mediums of Currency, from Crete, Mycenae and Cyprus,” Hugo von Fritze’s “Zur Chronologie der autonomen Prägung von Pergamon,” Ettore Gabrici’s “Monete Inedite o Rare del Museo Nazionale di Napoli,” Hermann Weber’s “Rare or Unpublished Coins in My Collection,” and many others. Clain-Stefanelli 1817. Daehn 97: “A collection of essays written to honor Barclay V. Head at the time of his retirement as Keeper of Coins at the British Museum.”
Price realized | 800 USD |
Starting price | 200 USD |
Estimate | 300 USD |