Svoronos, J. N. Synopsis de mille coins faux du faussaire C. Christodoulos. Athènes, 1922. 4to., pp. 16; 17 fine photographic plates (lettered A-Q). Contemporary red cloth boards with the original printed wrappers preserved, the spine lettered in gilt. A little dusty and rubbed, the endpapers discoloured, the contents browned as usual else a clean, fine copy of the rarely offered first edition of this important work, illustrating over 530 forgeries struck between 1895 and 1914. Important and scarce.
Clain-Stefanelli 3600*. Daehn 1720. Grierson p. 28, “L’oeuvre d’un célèbre faussaire modern de Monnaies grecques.” Kroh p. 98.