Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1472. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $4200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

British Museum Electroptypes. Thirty six (36) electrotypes, produced by the Ready family, in custom case. Labels referencing British Museum originals plated in Barclay V. Head, A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks, a copy of which is included in the lot. Lot also includes a photocopy of a Seaby sale in which Ready electrotypes were offered. The following electrotypes, as arranged in the case, are included (referencing originals in Head): Bruttium, Kroton. Nomos. Pl. 14, 18 // Islands off Caria, Rhodes. Stater. Pl. 19, 45 // Attica, Athens. Dekadrachm. Pl. 11, 32 // Campania, Neapolis. Nomos. Pl. 25, 5 // Calabria, Tarentum. Nomos. Pl. 25, 9 // Islands off Caria, Rhodes. Tetradrachm. Pl 19, 46 // Kings of Macedon, Philip II. Tetradrachm. Pl. 22, 20 // Macedon, Amphipolis. Tetradrachm. Pl. 21, 10 // Bruttium, Kroton. Nomos. Pl. 25, 21 // Crete, Knossos. Stater. Pl. 24, 54 // Crete, Gortyna. Stater. Pl. 30, 21 // Bruttium, Rhegion. Tetradrachm. Pl. 26, 24 // Sicily, Syracuse. Dekadrachm. Pl. 17, 67 // Lucania, Herakleia. Nomos. Pl. 25, 12 // Bruttium, Kaulonia. Nomos. Pl. 6, 13 // Argolis, Argos. Stater. Pl. 24, 46 // Thessaly, the Ainianes. Triobol (original not in Head) // Ionia, Klazomenai. Tetradrachm (original not in Head) // Sicily, Syracuse. Philistis. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm. Pl. 38, 22 // Kings of Macedon, Antigonos III Doson. Tetradrachm. Pl. 35, 4 // Sicily, Agrigentum. Tetradrachm. Pl. 14, 26 // Kings of Pontos, Mithradates VI Eupator. Tetradrachm. Pl. 44, 2 // Crete, Phaestus. Stater. Pl. 30, 24 // Kings of Macedon, Alexander III ‘the Great’. Tetradrachm (original not in Head) // Islands off Thrace, Thasos. Tetradrachm. Pl. 10, 9 // Carthage. Tetradrachm. Pl. 26, 41 // Lucania, Thourioi. Double Nomos. Pl. 13, 13 // Thrace, Ainos. Tetradrachm. Pl. 21, 5 // Calabria, Tarentum. Stater. Pl. 25, 8 // Sicily, Naxos. Tetradrachm. Pl. 15, 49 // Bruttium, Terina. Nomos. Pl. 14, 23 // Arkadia, Megalopolis. Stater. Pl. 24, 48 // Ionia, Klazomenai. Stater. Pl. 24, 48 // Lucania, Metapontion. Nomos. Pl. 31, 7. A highly impressive group.