Six’s Unpublished & Uncertain Greek Coins

Six, J.P. MONNAIES GRECQUES, INÉDITES ET INCERTAINES. London: offprints from the Numismatic Chronicle, 1888–1898. 8vo, later tan quarter morocco; spine with six raised bands, lettered in brown; brown endpapers. (2), 41, (1) + (2), 75, (1) + (2), 42 + (2), 42 + (2), 36 + (2), 53, (1) pages; 6 fine plates [one with each instalment]. Fine. An important series of articles by this brilliant numismatist. “J. Pieter Six van Hilligom of Amsterdam (1824–1899), was one of the nineteenth century’s leading specialists in Greek coins. ... His detailed studies concentrated on coins with Phoenician, Aramaic, Cypriot, Lycian, and Pamphylian legends; even taking into account his more audacious speculations one cannot help but admire the depth and scope of the author’s knowledge” (Babelon, Ancient Numismatics and Its History, 171).