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This is the b/w paperback version of "The Standard Guide to Grading
British Coins" - the 'Where's wear' of British numismatics! The
first book of its kind. A detailed photographic and descriptive
record of the grades of all British modern milled pre-decimal coins
(1797 to 1970). The grade of a coin dictates it's value. The age,
type or specific date are all of less importance than the
condition. But what is Fine, VF, EF or Uncirculated? If you are new
to coin collecting or specialise in different coin types, how can
you say without doubt that a coin is a certain grade? Until now you
could only guess. Now, at least you can make a very educated guess
based on the images shown in "The Standard Guide to Grading British
Coins". The photos of every obverse and reverse type are
illustrated at 2x or greater magnification and the text describes
where to look for the wear first. An invaluable guide to anyone who
collects coins, especially at the moment, with huge amounts of
overgraded coins being offered on the internet.
For several years now, sigillography as an independent subject in
the field of Byzantine studies, has received increasing attention
from both Byzantine studies and related disciplines, because it is
the only area still able to provide plenty of yet undiscovered
material for research and study. The articles deal with all aspects
of Byzantine sigillography: presentation of new finds, discussion
of new methods, questions of the political and ecclesiastical
administration of Byzantinum, prosopography, historical geography,
and art historical and iconographical problems. In addition, the
volumes contain a loosely arranged list of Byzantine seals, which
have been published in essays and auction catalogues, thus enabling
those from more obscure publications to be located and identified.
Volume 9, currently in preparation, mainly contains lectures from
the 8th International Symposium on Byzantine Sigillography held in
October 2003, in Berlin. Besides the iconography of seals, much
emphasis was placed on questions of Byzantine administration.
Further, selected collections are presented, as well as a large
number of new finds and new acquisitions.
Extraordinary cigarette lighters can be found in the strangest of
places--in a garage sale, at a swap meet, perhaps even in your own
basement. This convenient, revised and updated handheld guide
introduces a history of lighters through a comprehensive,
alphabetical presentation of styles, organized according to company
name and dating from the late 1800s through the 1980s.Well-known
makers such as Dunhill, Ronson, Evans, Scripto, and Zippo are
included, as well as unusual lighters from lesser known companies.
Never before has a book shown such variety of lighters with this
much detail and color: over 800 lighters are illustrated along with
current updated market values, along with over 35 new images.
Whether you are a collector of lighters or interested in design,
this book will give you insight into the style, beauty, and value
of cigarette lighters. And once you start collecting, it may be
hard to break the habit!
That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world
into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries
is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of
hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries have
shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles, too. What
brought the dirhams to northern Europe in such large numbers? The
fur trade has been proposed as one driver for transactions, but the
slave trade offers another - complementary - explanation. This
volume does not offer a comprehensive delineation of the hoard
finds, or a full answer to the question of what brought the silver
north. But it highlights the trade in slaves as driving exchanges
on a trans-continental scale. By their very nature, the nexuses
were complex, mutable and unclear even to contemporaries, and they
have eluded modern scholarship. Contributions to this volume shed
light on processes and key places: the mints of Central Asia; the
chronology of the inflows of dirhams to Rus and northern Europe;
the reasons why silver was deposited in the ground and why so much
ended up on Gotland; the functioning of networks - perhaps
comparable to the twenty-first-century drug trade; slave-trading in
the British Isles; and the stimulus and additional networks that
the Vikings brought into play. This combination of general surveys,
presentations of fresh evidence and regional case studies sets
Gotland and the early medieval slave trade in a firmer framework
than has been available before.
To do its part in the war effort, the U.S. Mint changed from a
copper cent to a zinc-coated steel version for one year, in 1943.
Rumor quickly spread that anyone who found a 1943 copper cent would
be rewarded with a car from Ford. Now you can display your
collection of the legendary Lincoln cents of 1909 to 1958 in this
beautiful four-panel coin folder. Larger in size than the average
folder, this unit has room for 144 coins, the most of any similar
folder.
'There are coin folders and then there is this deluxe State Quarter
folder. From the rich red, white and blue background to the
breathtaking center spread of coin slots ? 120 in all, this folder
is worthy of this caliber of coins. In addition to a slot for every
coin in the series, there is a space for both the Philadelphia Mint
and Denver Mint issues. Larger in size than the average, this
folder also includes the date each state entered the union, and key
facts about the state. This is a great gift for teaching children
about their state and the country's currency.
Fully illustrated with more than 2,000 images, 2020 U.S. Coin Digest,
18th edition, is a comprehensive, fully researched and vetted color
guide with values to all United States coins issues featuring in a
nearly indestructible hardcover with a lay-flat, easy-to-use format to
make your experience even more enjoyable.
This complete reference to U.S. coins includes all circulating and
non-circulating coins, from early American Token Coinage to modern
commemorative issues of the 21st century. The following features make
the U.S. Coin Digest the only reference you need for collecting U.S.
coins:
- 2000 images--nearly all in full color--provide a spectacular
visual guide making identification and appreciation of U.S. coins easy
and enjoyable.
- Thousands of detailed listings completely and expertly vetted,
allowing the consumer to collect with confidence.
- A clear and easy-to-use guide to identifying minting errors with
color images by Ken Potter, leading authority on error coins and author
of popular Strike It Rich with Pocket Change.
- Coins of Colonial America
- U.S. Territorial Gold coinage
- U.S. Mint Sets, Proof Sets and Prestige Sets with current market
values
- Coins of Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Philippines
Organized as a catalog of ship coins, according to the popular
KM-numbering system, these volumes list coins that have a common
design are grouped under separate headings. Circulating coins and
collector-oriented commemoratives are included and the coin images
represent the many different ways in which the ships are depicted.
Volume I"Fram," "Golden Hind," "Santa Maria," "Vasa," and "H.M.S.
Victory" are names of famous ships that have played a part in
Europe's maritime history and the stories associated with these and
many other ships are told in this book of ship coins. Each
narrative provides the historical background and watercraft
experience and circumstance of the soldiers, sailors, admirals and
generals, explorers, naval commanders, and fishermen who sometimes
through bravery and sometimes through human error have merited a
place in the historical record, and are associated with particular
vessels that have merited the striking of a coin in record and
remembrance. Each entry contains information on the ships, wherever
available (length, beam, depth, and tonnage). The book constitutes
a catalogue of ship coins organized according to the popular KM
numbering system, with groupings under separate headings where
ships have a common design. The coin images represent the many
different ways in which the ships are depicted. Each volume
contains a select bibliography and an index listing the ships,
persons and other major topics covered in the narratives. Volume
IIIncluding more than 600 narratives, the next in the series
follows the publication of Volume I to describe coins from America
and Asia.
Analysis of a group of images of kingship and queenship from
Anglo-Saxon England explores the implications of their focus on
books, authorship and learning. Between the reign of Alfred in the
late ninth century and the arrival of the Normans in 1066, a unique
set of images of kingship and queenship was developed in
Anglo-Saxon England, images of leadership that centred on books,
authorship and learning rather than thrones, sword and sceptres.
Focusing on the cultural and historical contexts in which these
images were produced, this book explores the reasons for their
development, and their meaning and functionwithin both England and
early medieval Europe. It explains how and why they differ from
their Byzantine and Continental counterparts, and what they reveal
about Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards history and gender, as well as
the qualities that were thought to constitute a good ruler. It is
argued that this series of portraits, never before studied as a
corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual
genealogies and regnal lists that are so mucha feature of late
Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way
in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created
both their history and their kingdom. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is
Professorof Art History at the University of Leeds.
Originally written in 1905, this volume examines the coins of
Japan, especially appealing because of a subtle and impersonal
charm which pervades their inscriptions and the sentiments which
they set forth. They are written in characters which are a manifest
surviva of the picture writing of early man. He wrote, that is to
say, scored or scratched, various outline sketches of his doings
and the more intimate facts of his surroundings, on bone, clay or
other material.
Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of
Augustus's wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in
other visual media and reveals the detailed visual language that
was developed for the promotion of Livia as the predominant female
in the Roman imperial family. The book provides the most
comprehensive examination of all extant coins of Livia to date, and
provides one of the first studies on the images on Roman coins as
gender-infused designs, which created a visual dialogue regarding
Livia's power and gender-roles in relation to those of male members
of the imperial family. While the appearance of Roman women on
coins was not entirely revolutionary, having roughly coincided with
the introduction of images of powerful Roman statesmen to coins in
the late 40s BCE, the degree to which Livia came to be commemorated
on coins in the provinces and in Rome was unprecedented. This
volume provides unique insights into the impact of these
representations of Livia, both on coins and in other visual media.
Julia Augusta: Images of Rome's First Empress on the Coins of the
Roman Empire will be of great interest to students of women and
imperial imagery in the Roman Empire, as well as the importance of
visual representation and Roman imperial ideology.
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