Italian Cast Coinage: Italian Aes Grave, Aes Rude, Signatum and the Aes Grave of Sicily

Bradbury K. Thurlow, Italo G. Vecchi

ISBN 10: 0950683604 / ISBN 13: 9780950683607

Published by V.C Vecchi & Sons / B. & H. Kreindler, 1979

About this Item

In a brown cloth hardcover with gilt titles to spine. With an unclipped yellow dust jacket with dark blue titles to spine and front and a dark blue illustration to front. 50 pp. of text and 82 black and white plates. The book is in near fine condition with just a trace of shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover, the binding is tight and the pages clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is also near fine with very minor shelf-wear to the extremities and one very small spot to the front.

Seller Inventory # 910989

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Italian Cast Coinage: Italian Aes Grave, Aes Rude, Signatum and the Aes Grave of Sicily
• Publisher: V.C Vecchi & Sons / B. & H. Kreindler
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0950683604
• ISBN 13: 9780950683607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

This 1979 work is really two books in one. Using the latest research and dating, it contains 50 pages of brief but useful and informative text and 82 very decent plates which illustrate every known variety. Good concordance with Sydenham and Crawford make it a vital reference, includes useful rarity valuations. An essential handbook for the collector of early Roman Republican bronzes. A superb catalogue of the broad series of cast coinages of Rome and her surrounds. The standard reference on Aes Grave and Aes Signatum, easy to use, all examples illustrated.