Medieval Numismatics (other than British)
Adelson, Howard L. Light Weight Solidi and Byzantine Trade During the Sixth and Seventh Centuries . (Numismatic Notes and Monographs, no. 138). New York: The American Numismatic Society, 1957. ix, 187 p. : ill., 1 pull-out map, [14] p. of plates ; softcover, bumped front top right-hand corner, adhesive wrinkling on back cover from borrower’s pocket affixed to inside back cover; ex-Montreal Coin Club; otherwise very good, $30.
Bates, George E. BYZANTINE COINS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF SARDIS. Cambridge: Harvard, 1971. 4to, original purple cloth, gilt; jacket. x, (2), 159, (5) pages; 9 plates of coins. Some wear to jacket; near fine. Clain-Stefanelli 5385. $65.
Beierlein, J. B. Die Bayerischen Münzen des Hauses Wittelsbach, 1180-1550. (facsimile reprint of 1868 original published in Munich). New York: Alfred Szego, 1972. 66 p. : ill., [9] p. of plates; original stapled card covers; near fine, $25.
Bellinger, Alfred R. THE ANONYMOUS BYZANTINE BRONZE COINAGE. New York: ANS, 1928. 16mo, original printed card covers. (4), 27, (1) pages; 3 double-page plates. Near fine. Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 35. $35.
Berk, Harlan J., and Victor England. BYZANTINE COINS: A DEFINITIVE OFFERING OF BYZANTINE COPPER COINS… New York, Dec. 7, 1989. 4to, original red cloth, lettered in gilt. 64 pages; 368 lots; illustrated throughout; prices realized list. Previous owner’s embossed stamp on title page; near fine. The special hardcover edition. $40.
Berman, Allen G. PAPAL NUMISMATIC HISTORY: THE EMANCIPATION OF THE PAPAL STATE. Second edition. South Salem, 1991. Tall 8vo, original printed card covers. (6), 158 pages; maps; 3 plates. Fine, $60.
Burger, Werner. Ch’ing Cash until 1735. Taipei: Mei Ya Publications, Inc., 1976. 124 p., hard cover (slightly warped), includes 30 plates and 6 huge coin charts by year, mint & submint; an in-depth work on Ch’ing (Qing) Dynasty through Emperor Yung-Cheng with a wealth of information on Ming and Ch’ing monetary systems, coining processes, , essential for the serious collector, English text; very good, $75.
Butler, Dudley. “Heraldry”. (Reprint from The Numismatist, Vol. LVIII, 1945). ANA [no reprint date given, ca. 1960?]. 18 p. : ill. ; original stapled card covers; slight bending at corners, $10.
Cagiati, Memmo. Le Monete del Reame delle due Sicilie da Carlo I. d’Anglò a Vittorio Emanuele II. Naples: Tipograpia Melfi & Joele, 1911. 358 p. : ill. ; original card covers and pages loose, spine missing; some chipping, creasing; reading copy, $75.
Ciani, Louis. Les Monnaies Royales Françaises de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI. Maestricht, Hollande : A. G. van der Dussen, 1926. 502 p. : ill. ; original card covers, bumped, creased at corners and the back; bottom front right-hand corner all but torn off; otherwise very good, $80.
Chernetsov, A.V. TYPES ON RUSSIAN COINS OF THE XIV AND XV CENTURIES: AN ICONOGRAPHIC STUDY. Oxford, 1983. Translated by H. Bartlett Wells. 4to, original red printed card covers. (4), 191 pages; 42 plates of coins and other objects, with facing text. Fine. BAR International Series 167. Rarely offered. The original Russian text was never published; $165.
Davenport, John S. European Crowns, 1484-1600. Frankfurt: Schulten, 1977. 330 p. : ill., includes bibliography; hardcover; as new, $175.
Dekesel, C.E. BIBLIOTHECA NUMMARIA: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 16TH CENTURY NUMISMATIC BOOKS. ILLUSTRATED AND ANNOTATED CATALOGUE. Crestline: George F. Kolbe; London: Spink, 1997. Large 4to, original green cloth; jacket. xlii, 1059, (3) pages; 736 illustrations of title pages. Fine. Absolutely indispensable for the period covered, utterly supplanting Lipsius. A magnificent work, giving detailed information on each of these books, the earliest on numismatic subjects; $135.
Dekesel, C.E. BIBLIOTHECA NUMMARIA II: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 17TH CENTURY NUMISMATIC BOOKS. ILLUSTRATED AND ANNOTATED CATALOGUE. Crestline: George F. Kolbe; London: Spink, 2003. Large 4to, original matching red cloth; jackets. Three volumes, complete. xliv, 1038, (4); ii, 1039–2036; ii, 2037–3190, (4) pages; over 3000 illustrations of title pages. New. A monumental work, absolutely indispensable for the period covered. Winner of the 14th ILAB-LILA International Prize for Bibliography; $175.
den Velde, W. Op, and C.J.F. Klaassen. SCEATTAS AND MEROVINGIAN DENIERS FROM DOMBURG AND WESTENSCHOUWEN. Middelburg, 2004. Folio, original pictorial boards. xii, (2), 165, (3) pages; illustrated; covers bent twice due to in transit mishap. Good; $60.
Dimnik, Martin, and Julijan Dobrinic. MEDIEVAL SLAVIC COINAGES IN THE BALKANS: NUMISMATIC HISTORY AND CATALOGUE. London: Spink, 2008. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt; jacket. 252 pages; illustrated. Fine. A highly useful summary and overview of the subject in English. $90.
Duncan, G.L. COIN CIRCULATION IN THE DANUBIAN AND BALKAN PROVINCES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, AD 294–578. London, 1993. 4to, original red cloth, gilt; jacket. xiv, 192 pages; maps; tables. Fine. Royal Numismatic Society, Special Publication No. 26; $90.
Engel, Arthur & Raymond Serrure in Five Matched Volumes Paris Traieé NUMISMATIQUE du MOYEN AGE par Arthur ENGEL et Raymond SERRURE in three Volumes Paris Ernest Leroux, Éditeur and : Traieé NUMISMATIQUE MODERNE et CONTEMPORAINEE par Arthur ENGEL et Raymond SERRURE in two Volumes Paris Ernest Leroux, Éditeur 1897 and 1899A matched set, bound in boards with leather spines. Tight, excellent bindings, though some staining on the spines, particularly on Volume three. There is also a bit of fraying on the top of the spines, particularly volume two. Matching bookplates. Volume one 1891, Volume 1894, volume three 1905. in general, solid VG. 1459 pages. 3. 79 kg total weight. Approx.. 16. 5 x 24. 5 cm. and : Matching volumes to the set of three “Moyen Age” Same bindings. Tight, and sound. Same bookplates. Staining on the spine of the large first volume 2. 01 kilos Total weight of all five volumes is 5. 80 kilos (for shipping purposes). While individual volumes are easily found, and there are modern reprints, a nice matching set of all five original volumes is seldom seen; ex-libris Sherbrooke Seminary (Quebec), $800.
Feuardent, Felix. Jetons et Méreaux depuis Louis IX jusqu’à la fin du Consultat de Bonaparte . [Paris]: Rollin et Feuardent, 1904-1907. 3 vols. (vol 1: xvi, 502 p.; vol. 2: 516 p.; vol. 3: 16 p. : ill., 22 p. of plates, ca. 340 blank pages inserted presumably to approximate thickness of other two volumes). Pages are extremely brittle in the first two volumes with several loose and loose hinges, hard cover, red cloth, gilt lettering bound for the ANS by E. C. Lewis Co., Baylis Bindery, NY, 1916; ex-American Numismatic Society with ANS bookplates pasted to inside front cover of all three volumes and “The American Numismatic Society” at the bottom of each spine; first two volumes are reading copies, third volume, near fine, $270.
Frey, Albert R. The Dated European Coinage Prior to 1501. New York: Durst, 1978. Rev. reprint. 120 p., [11] p. of plates : ill., 1 map ; includes index and valuation suppl. tipped in. hardcover; fine, $75.
Frynas, Jȩdrzej George. Medieval Coins of Bohemia, Hungry and Poland . London: Spink, 2015. 340 p. : ill., 2 maps ; includes index ; printed hard cover; new, $105.
[Fulvio, Andrea]. ILLUSTRIUM IMAGINES. INCORPORATING AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF NOTA BY ROBERTO WEISS. ACCOMPANIED BY A LEAF FROM THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED NUMISMATIC BOOK. Crestline: Kolbe, 2001. 8vo, original Japanese black cloth; red goatskin label, gilt. 35, (7) pages; illustrated, including a title facsimile, color plate of a Renaissance Gentleman, specially commissioned woodcut, facsimiles of both colophons, and an original woodcut leaf from the original 1517 edition of Illustrium Imagines. Fine. One of an edition limited to 151 numbered copies, each accompanied by an original 1517 leaf depicting a coin. Printed letterpress by Bird & Bull Press on mould-made paper. $225.
Goodacre, Hugh. A HANDBOOK OF THE COINAGE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE. London, 1971 reprint. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. xi, (1), 361, (1) pages; text illustrations. Near fine. $75 Clain-Stefanelli 5395. SOLD
Goodwin, Tony. ARAB-BYZANTINE COINAGE. London, 2005. 4to, original blue cloth; printed title labels. 168 pages; text figures. Fine. Studies in the Khalili Collection, Volume IV. Among the most important modern works on the subject; $115.
Huletski, Dzmitry. EARLY RUSSIAN COINS AND THEIR VALUES. VOLUME 1. N.p., 2015. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. 54 pages; well illustrated in color throughout. New; $30.
Huletski, Dzmitry and Giedrius Bagdonas. Lithuanian Coins, 1495-1536 . Vilnius: The authors, 2021. 347 p. : ill., ports ; includes bibliography; printed hard cover; signed by the co-author, $80.
Huletski, Dzmitry; Giedrius Bagdonas & Mikalai Darashkevich. Early Lithuanian Half-Groats, 1495-1529 . Kaunas: The authors, 2017. 174 p. hard cover; new. $60. SOLD 1 copy; another available
Huletski, Dzmitry and Slawomir Liszewski. Lithuanian Counterstamps, 1421-1481, on the Golden Horde’s Silvers . Vilnius: The authors, 2019. 103 p. : ill., ports; printed hard cover; new, $60.
Jungfleisch, M. Marcel. “Les Dénéraux et Estampilles Byzantins en Verre de la Collection Frœhner”(Extract from the Bulletin de L’Institut d’Egypte, vol. XIV, session 1931-1932. Le Caire: Imprimerie de L’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1932. 233-256 p. (uncut), [4] p. of plates : ill. ; original paper covers, brittle, chipped; good, $15.
Kelpsh, A.E. “Silver Dollars of Tuscany During the Rule of the House of Medici”. Reprinted from The Numismatist, vol. LIX July and August, 1946. ANA [no reprint date given, ca. 1950?]. 19 p. : ill. ; original stapled card covers, some sunning/discoloration around edges, small tears, bending and or creasing at lower right-hand corner; overall very good, $10.
Labrot, Jacques. Une Histoire Economique et Populaire du Moyen Age; Les Jetons et Les Moreaux . Paris : Éditions Errance, 1989. 236 p., includes bibliography and index; softcover; as new, $30 (comes with unpublished 3.5 p. review by Marcus Phillips).
Lhotka, John F. “Medieval Feudal French Coinage”. Reprinted from The Numismatist . Colorado Springs, CO: ANA, 1966. 36 p. : ill. ; includes bibliographic references; original stapled card covers. heavy writing and some doodling in pencil and red ink on inside back cover; small tear in middle of lower edge of p. 1-2; overall very good, $20.
Lianta, Eleni. Late Byzantine Coins, 1204-1453, in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford . London: Spink, 2009. vii, 335 : ill., 2 ports; includes bibliography and index; hardcover with dust jacket; new, $115.
Lipsius, J.G., and J. Leitzmann. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NUMISMATIC BOOKS PRINTED BEFORE 1800 WITH THE SUPPLEMENT TO 1866. Reprint. Colchester: John Drury, 1977. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt. (6), xx, 558, (4), iv, 189, (1) pages. New. Reprints the 1801 Bibliotheca Numaria by Lipsius and the 1867 supplement by Leitzmann. Essential for the 18th and early 19th centuries; $75.
Malter, Joel L.Byzantine Numismatic Bibliography, 1950-1965. Chicago: Argonaut Pub., 1968. 59 p. hardcover; $30.
Malter, Joel L. Byzantine Numismatic Bibliography, 1966-1994. Encino, CA: Malter Galleries, Inc., 1995. 68 p. hardcover; $30.
If both Malter bibliographies are purchased together, they can be had for $50 for the pair.
Metcalf, D.M. THE COINAGE OF SOUTH GERMANY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. London, 1961. 8vo, original printed card covers. 79, (1) pages; illustrated. Near fine. Clain-Stefanelli 6517. $45.
Mikolajczyk, Andrej. Polish Museums: Anglo-Saxon and Later Medieval British Coins (Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles; 37). London: Oxford University Press, Spink & Son, 1987. ix, 78 : ill., 20 plates ; hard cover with gilt printing; fine, $50.
Molloy, Alex G. Medieval Coins XIX. South Salem, New York: Alex G. Molloy, Inc., 1982. 34 p. : ill., [8] p. of plates; original stapled card covers; includes entries of Arab-Byzantine & Arab- Sassanian, Islamic and Turkoman coins; fine, $10.
Molloy, Alex G., Irene Fraley Preston and A.J. Seltman. COINS OF THE CRUSADER STATES, 1098–1291. New York, 2004. Second edition. 8vo, original orange cloth, gilt; jacket. viii, 521 pages; text illustrations; 11 plates. Jacket has a tear; near fine. A major work; bid $90.
Penna, Vasso. BYZANTINE COINAGE: MEDIUM OF TRANSACTION AND MANIFESTATION OF IMPERIAL PROPAGANDA. Nicosia, 2002. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. 149, (3) pages; illustrated. Bilingual (English and Greek). Fine. Rarely offered. $60.
Polo, Marco & Latham, Ronald. The Travels of Marco Polo. London: Penguin Books, 1958; 351 p. map. paperback, good condition (pages are yellowed), $10.
Rigold, S.E. THE TWO PRIMARY SERIES OF SCEATTAS. Reprinted from the British Numismatic Journal, Vol. XXX, 1960. 8vo, later brown cloth, gilt; original printed card covers taped in. 53, (1) pages; 4 fine plates. Ex library stamps; ink annotations throughout; good. $40.
Rus’, Lithuania, Horde: Journal of Numismatics and Sigillography, Volume 9 . Vilnius: Petro Ofsetas, 2021. 207 p. : ill. ; includes bibliographies ; printed hard cover; new, $70.
Sear, David R. Byzantine Coins and Their Values. 2nd ed., rev. & enl. London: Seaby, 1987. 526 p. : ill., maps; includes bibliography and index; hardcover with dustjacket; fine, $100.
Sotheby’s. The William Herbert Hunt Collection: Important Byzantine Coins . New York, June 21, 1991. 1 v. : ill., 646 lots ; softcover; some bumping on corners; otherwise fine; $40.
Stahl, Alan M. ZECCA: THE MINT OF VENICE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 8vo, original purple cloth; jacket. xv, (1), 497, (5) pages. Fine. Covers not only the coins themselves, but the role played by the mint in Venice and the working life within the institution. $80.
Wroth, Warwick. WESTERN AND PROVINCIAL BYZANTINE COINS. VANDALS, OSTROGOTHS, LOMBARDS AND THE EMPIRES OF THESSALONICA, NICAEA AND TREBIZOND. Chicago, 1966 reprint. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt; jacket. 344 pages; 42 plates. Wear to jacket, else near fine; $90.