371, Lot: 170. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Ashton, Richard (editor). Studies in Ancient Coinage from Turkey. (London, 1986). RNS Special Publication No. 29. 160 pages, 69 plates. Red cloth, dust jacket. A collection of 20 articles detailing hoards and other aspects of ancients coinage in Turkey. Articles include: The Candarli Hoard of New Style Athenian Silver, by Price; A Hoard of Hellenistic Silver Coins of Myndros, by Gokturk; A Hoard of Coins of Tabai and Adramytion, by Ashton; Greek and Greek Imperial Coins found during the Cankirikapi Excavations, by Arslan; and most importantly The Bronze Coinage of Gordian III from Caesarea in Cappadocia, by Roger Bland. 15 other articles as well. Lot also includes: Lightfoot, C.S. [editor]. Recent Turkish Coin Hoards and Numismatic Studies. (Oxford 1991). British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Monograph 12, Oxbow Monograph 7. 347 pages, illustrated throughout, card covers. A collection of articles describing 12 coin hoards found in Turkey. Both Very Fine copies.

From the J. S. Wagner Library.