Over a Century of the Numismatic Chronicle

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 2182. Estimate $50.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Royal Numismatic Society. The Numismatic Chronicle. (London). 1881. vii, 27, 10, 359 pages, 15 photographic and engraved plates. Head on the coinage of Boeotia, Gibbs on the Bahmani dynasty.

The following nearly complete run of Numismatic Chronicles, unless otherwise noted, is deaccessioned from the library of the Osterreichische Numismatische Gesellschaft (Austrian Numismatic Society) in Vienna, most with their library stamps and cancellation marks. Most exhibit minor wear from careful use, but otherwise in nice clean condition. Binding styles run in series, with some minor variation from year to year, but generally as follows-

1881-1930- Fine quality dark green half leather with marbled boards, endpapers and edges, gilt spine titles and decoration. Varying amounts of sunning on the spines.

1931-1966- Inexpensive quarter green or black cloth library binding with marbled boards.

1967-2003- Original maroon or crimson cloth covers. Some fading on the early years.

Any exceptions will be noted in the individual descriptions. Significant and still pertinent articles will be noted for each year, but otherwise descriptions of contents will be kept to a minimum in the interests of saving space. Almost every issue has notes on new museum acquisitions and recent hoard finds in Britain and elsewhere. Brevity allows these important and sought-after reference volumes to be listed singly.