This book, now available for the first time in an English translation, was published in Dutch in 1732 by lawyer Gerard van Loon. His aim was to give the reader a pleasant and informative tour of the history of coins and medals and the result is an astonishing, entertaining and surprisingly modern numismatic work. The format, layout and plates of this English translation follow closely those of the original edition. This translation opens up to modern readers of all kinds the fascinating thoughts and advice of a numismatist, historian and philosopher who lived and wrote more than a quarter of a millennium age.

A remarkable and lavishly illustrated selection of 145 historic hand and desk seals from a significant and previously undocumented private collection. These seals are mainly from Great Britain and other parts of the English-speaking world, and they range from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Some are fine and rare, others are more modest and domestic. Between them they represent all fields of activity and all levels of society, encompassing designs and craftsmanship from the plain and utilitarian to the intricate and fanciful. Meticulously catalogued by Julia Clarke, an established expert, and with a fascinating essay by the renowned silver expert John Culme on the 19th century silversmith Thomas Wimbush, one of whose seals is featured.

In questo volume sono classificate e descritte 1442 monete emesse a Firenze nel periodo repubblicano ovvero nellarco di tempo che va dallinizio della monetazione al 1533, dopo che Carlo V, con il Lodo del 4 luglio 1531, aveva assegnato la citta ad Alessandro de Medici. Alle 407 monete originarie della collezione del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (comprendenti anche le 125 della donazione Ginori Conti del 1962) si sono aggiunte 1035 monete della collezione Mediceo-Lorenese provenienti dal Museo Archeologico. La collezione di monete della Repubblica di Firenze custodita nel medagliere del Museo Nazionale del Bargello e da ritenere la piu vasta e completa esistente al mondo. Citiamo come esempio la consistenza di alcuni tipi monetali: 591 fiorini doro, ben 8 doppi fiorini, 24 cotali, il rarissimo scudo doro e 4 esemplari del mezzo scudo dellassedio di Firenze del 1530. Presentazioni di Edoardo Speranza, Antonio Paolucci, Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi.

The Coin Collector's Survival Manual has been called "one of the most important coin books ever written" by The New York Times and has sold more than 80,000 copies. It has received six awards from the prestigious Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG), including "Book of the Year", and was the only work ever to receive NLG's "Best Consumer Protection Book" award.

This fully-illustrated catalogue publishes 2021 pre-imperial ancient Greek coins from an area of Asia Minor covering Caria to Commagene but excluding Cyprus. Each coin is carefully photographed and its description appears opposite for ease of reference. Technical details are supplied for each coin, with comparanda and provenances in nearly every case. This welcome addition to the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum series continues the cataloguing of the Ashmolean Museum's rich holdings. It will be of interest to numismatists, coin collectors, and scholars and students of the archaeology and history of the Greek world.

The publication of the great eighteenth-century collection of William Hunter in Glasgow University marks an important stage in the British SNG project. This catalogue of the first half of the Hunterian's Roman Provincial coins illustrates the 2428 coins produced in the West, and East as far as Commagene. 'Greek Imperial' coins have perhaps still to be fully appreciated in the context of the Roman Empire. From the death of Caesar to the reign of Diocletian, almost a thousand cities in the provinces issued coins with types and inscriptions that symbolize their cultural identity. The coins published in this substantial volume offer a wealth of information about many aspects of local life in that period, including religion, architecture and administration.

Every coin collection is an investment, and this book is indispensable if you want to use rare coins to help plan a successful retirement. By an award-winning author who has followed the rare coin market for more than 30 years, this book: Lists over 100 gold and platinum coins that you can buy; Provides you with tips to follow and traps to avoid, in order to make your rare coin retirement more successful; Supplies you with easy to read graphs and charts that show you past history and suggest future price possibilities; Accurately supplies mintage figures for sleepers, previously undiscovered rare coins in which you can find hidden gold and long-term profits; Warns you about the importance of grading rare coins correctly and shows you how grades can affect value. Prices for the coins are interwoven with fascinating stories about them, their history, their economics, all designed to be interesting as well as informative. This is a road map to profitable rare coin retirement.

Few objects can tell a tale to match this one coin's for drama and sheer improbability. Stolen from the US Mint in the depths of the Great Depression, it was shipped by diplomatic pouch to Egypt, hidden for forty years, seized in a sting at the Waldorf-Astoria and then sold in a record-setting auction. For years the only known 1933 twenty-dollar coin in the world has inspired the passions of thieves and collectors, lawyers and charlatans. Its story links an extraordinary cast of characters: Theodore Roosevelt and a shady Philadelphia gold dealer; King Farouk and a Secret Service agent; London's most successful coin dealer and a retired trucker from Amarillo. Alison Frankel's narrative hums at the pace of a thriller. Her meticulously researched descriptions and vivid character studies bring the coin's history to life and illuminate the world of coin collecting, where the desire to possess often borders on madness.

Supplement to Pre-Islamic Coinage