Corpus Nummorum Romanorum: The Imperial Coins

Banti, Alberto, and Luigi Simonetti. CORPUS NUMMORUM ROMANORUM. Firenze, 1972–1979. Eighteen volumes, complete. 8vo, matching original green cloth, gilt. 5680 pages; 20,346 illustrations of coins in the text. Bilingual: Italian and English. Bindings rubbed as usual; one or two with tears to spine cloth; very good. An important work, spanning Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus to Nero. Clain-Stefanelli 4091*. Kroh 72: “perhaps the most ambitious project ever attempted for Roman coinage, its 18 volumes cover the period from Julius Caesar to Nero and utilized virtually every coin illustrated in the major auctions and published collections of 20th century Europe.” Ex Kolbe & Fanning Sale 146, lot 20.