[PDF] Catalogue Of Ancient English And Foreign Coins In Gold Silver And Bronze Together With A Selection From The Lucayan Beach Treasure 1628 Comprising A Large Collection Of Foreign Milled Gold Coins Including An Interesting Series Of Japanese Pieces Early Chinese Banknotes Ancient Coins Including A Decadrachm By Kimon A Small Collection Of Jewish Issues And A Fine Series Of Roman Republican Denarii English Gold And Silver Coins Including Fine Hammered Pieces Milled Gold Containing Some Five Guineas And A Pattern Five Pounds Of 1839 Anglo Saxon Pennies And Other Hammered And Milled Silver Including Crowns Interesting Tokens Historical And Modern Medals Which Will Be Sold By Auction By Sotheby Co At Their St George St Galleries eBook

Author : David Hartill
Publisher : Bright Pen
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780755213658

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[16:19:22] Jadles (Jamie): Early Japanese Coins is an up-to-date catalogue of pre-Meiji copper, gold and silver coins. As well as official issues, the often decorative provincial issues are covered. A selection of the intriguing Japanese amulets known as E-sen is also included. It replaces Munro and other western works. It is designed to be used both by advanced collectors who have some knowledge of characters, and beginners who will find the layout easy to follow and will quickly gain a knowledge of this coinage. It draws on historical, as well as the latest western and Japanese numismatic sources, and describes the circumstances under which many of the coins were issued and used. Guides to the Japanese language are given, and maps and lists of era names and rulers add to the background information. There is a description of how the coins were made, illustrated from a contemporary document. A Finding Guide is provided for the difficult Kanei Tsuho series, which will enable these coins to be readily attributed from the differences in their calligraphy. A rarity guide, linked to an approximate value, is provided for each coin. The author has been studying and collecting Far Eastern coins for over fifty years, and has also written the prize winning Cast Chinese Coins, and the definitive Qing Cash.

Author : Osmund Bopearachchi
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :

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This important contribution about ancient coins in India has been written jointly by Osmund Bopearachchi and Wilfried Pieper. It is an impressive volume of 289 pages with 59 plates which presents a private collection of ancient coins patiently gathered trough the years. In Part one, W.Pieper develops a historical commentary about the earliest coinages of India, the imperial period of late Magadha and Maurya rule ( ca late IVth-early IInd centuries B.C.), Ujjain and Eran, the Satavahanas (ca Ist century B.C.-early IInd century A.D.), and tribal republics and kingdoms in post-Mauryan northern India ( ca 200 B.C-ca 300 A.D.). This commentary is followed by a detailed catalogue with very precise drawings of more than 600 coins and punch-marked coins. Part two by o. Bopearachhi is organized on the same pattern: a historical commentary about foreign powers in ancient northern India, from the Bactrian Greeks untill the time of the early Kushans followed by a precise catalogue presenting Greek, Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian, Indo-Parthian, and early Kushan coins (in fact, more than 300 specimens). The commentary intends to give a general overview of the coins concerned and of their historical context with a more extensive discussion of the series best represented in the collection. For the indigenous Indian coins this is specially true for the coinages of Ujjain, Eran, Taxila and Kausambi, many of which are new and published here for the first time.