E-Auction 43

BYZANTINE EMPIRE. Phocas. 602-610. AV tremissis. 1.48 gm. 17.5 mm. Constantinople mint. Struck 603-607(?). His diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Cross potent. SB 633. DOC 18. MIBE 26B. Extremely Fine; particularly sharply struck bust; scattered die rust in obverse field; area of flat strike to left, with short hairline scratch on reverse.

•Bateson, J. D. and Mayhew, N. J. Scottish Coins in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. SCBI Volume 35. British Academy. 1987. Octavo. Blue cloth with gold stamped titles. 116 plates with full identifications. Introduction and Bibliography

Very Good copy; slight indications of use though boards a bit curled.

•Stewart, I. H. The Scottish Coinage with Supplement. Spink. 1955. 215 pages plus 22 plates. Octavo. Green covers simulating leather, gold stamped. A basic reference with extensive background and explanation of the series.

•Stewart, I. H. "Scottish Mints." in Carson, R. A. G. (ed). Mints, Dies and Currency, Essays Dedicated to the Memory of Albert Baldwin. London 1971. pages 165 to 291. Black buckram with gold stamped title. Dust jacket. This festschrift includes 18 articles on various mint issues including ancient coinage as well as British coinage. The Stewart article on Scottish Mints makes up nearly half the volume and provides a definitive account of Scottish mint history.

Both Stewart volumes in Very Good condition but there are tears in the dust jacket of the "Mints" volume (which I would be inclined to discard in favor of the underlying boards)..

Burns, E. The Coinage of Scotland Illustrated from the Cabinet of Thomas Coats, Esq., of Ferguslie and Other Collections. Three volumes. Edinburgh 1887. Standard reference. Volume I. David I to Robert III. 365 pages. Vol. II. James I to Anne. 555 pages including Index. Vol III. 78 collotoype plates.

Good copy; covers mostly tight but with some soiling and fading, some scuffing, corners with minor bends, end pages and occasional text pages with foxing, most text fresh; two of the Index pages in Vol II have tears. Minor foxing of the images as well as the edges of the plate pages in Volume III. Most plate interleave sheets in Volume III are intact.

A pair of early major British references:

•Cochran-Patrick, R. W. Records of the Coinage of Scotland from the Earliest Period to the Union. Edinburgh. 1876. Standard reference citing official documents related to Scottish coinage. Two volumes. Quarto. Vol. I. 296 pages. Vol. II. 359 pages including Index. 16 collotype plates. Half leather binding with marbled boards, gold-stamped titles on spines. Ex Third Kolbe/Spink Joint Sale, December 1984.

Good copy, generally clean text with slight browning around edges. Binding on Volume I reattached; Volume II basically tight but front end page half separated. Covers scuffed, corners with minor bends.

•De Cardonnel, Adam. Numismata Scotiæ or a Series of the Scottish Coinage from the Reign of William the Lion to the Union. Edinburgh. 1786. Large quarto. 157 pages plus a 33 page Appendix and 20 letterpress printing of engravings of Scottish coins. Half leather binding with marbled boards.

Very Good contents with moderate discoloration; boards and bindings show wear, scuffed spines and corners, scratches and some wear on boards; binding tight though front endpage separated from front board.

Gerard van Loon. Medallic History of the Low Countries. This was originally published in Dutch and in French in the 19th century in a large format and was difficult to find (particularly in French). It has now been translated into English with photographic plates of the detailed line image engravings of the original editions and some modern photographic color plates have been added. The set is in four volumes, 1551-1602, 1602-1667, 1667-1691, 1691-1716. (Many English medals are also cross-listed in van Loon.) This set of four volumes with nearly 2000 pages is currently available online for just over $280 (from Belgium). (This is a new set that UPS left out in the rain even though there is a sign indicating where parcels should be left.) Volume I shows a bit of water staining (a slight darkening of the red), a lightly wrinkled back cover and some pages with wrinkling around the edges, Vol II shows a bit of stain and a slightly curled cover. Vol III has some water stain on the cover. Vol. IV is like Vol. I though the front cover that has the wrinkles and stain. My set was replaced by the publishers. Proceeds from this lot will be donated to the American Numismatic Association..

Two important references on the Scottish series by the then coin curator in Edinburgh

•Richardson, A. Scottish Coins, A new edition of the Catalogue of Scottish Coins in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. 1977 reprint of a work first published in 1901. 396 pages plus 12 plates. Octavo. Blue cloth covers, gold stamped titles and images.

•Richardson, A. A Handbook to the Coinage of Scotland, giving a description of every variety issued by the Scottish mint in gold silver billon and copper, from Alexander I to Anne Stuart, with an introductory chapter on the implements and processes employed. Reprint. Chicago. 1968. 146 pages including Index, some illustrations in text

Both almost as new but for a bit of bending on the upper corners on the first volume

Also, a selection of card covered books/booklets on Scottish coins:

•Bateson, D. Scotttish Coins. Shire Publications. 32 pages, illustrations in text. (A useful history and background of the series)

•Holmes, N. Scottish Coins, A history of small change in Scotland. National Musem of Scotland, 1988. 112 pages. (Excellent economic and numismatic history by the Curator of Numismatics at the museum.)

•Holmes, N. The Edinburgh Mint and its Coinage. City of Edinburgh Museums. 1982. 39 pages with photos in text.

•Metcalf, D. M. Coinage in Medieval Scotland (1100-1600). British Archaeological Reports 45. 1977. 198 pages. Quarto.

•Smart, V. The Coins of St. Andrews. St. Andrews University Library. 1991. 41 pages. (St. Andrews was an important mint early in the history of Scottish coinage.)

•Sweeney, P. The Coinage of Scotland, a select bibliography. Glasgow. 1983. (An extensive bibliograhy of 193 references plus 13 books.

Very Good. Useful mini-library

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Spink & Son. Auctions 1 though 25 in three bound volumes. 1978 to 1982. Most with prices realized laid in. The catalogs are generally fresh, as issued. They are bound in library buckram, gold lettering on the spine. Volume 1 contains Auctions 1-7 and is bound in black. Volume 2 contains Auctions 8 to 18 and Volume 3 contains Auctions 19 to 25; both are bound in dark blue. From the beginning, Spinks sales have offered some of the most important collections to come to market..

•Woolf, N. The Medallic Record of the Jacobite Movement. Spink. 1988. Quarto. Card covers. Standard reference. 161 pages, photos in text. Also, separately printed "Price List" published in Dec. 1977, 8 pages. The standard reference for this series. Fine copy; fresh text; minor slight indications of use on cover.

•Cochran-Patrick, R. W. Catalog of the Medals of Scotland from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Edinburgh. 1884. 286 pages. 36 plates. Indexes. Standard reference for the series. A total of 350 copies were printed. A copy with clear text but only "copy quality" photos. Green buckram. Quarto.