371, Lot: 502. Estimate $250. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Banti, A. Corpus Nummorum Romanorum: Monetazione Repubblicana. (Florence, 1980-1982). Volumes 1-9: 329 + 401 + 360 + 336+ 325 + 342 + 317 + 325 + 305 pages, with thousands of photographic illustrations. Red cloth covers, gilt titles. Bilingual Italian/English text. Best comprehensive reference for Roman Republican coins, valuable for die studies and pedigree searches. Concordances with Babelon, BMC, Sydenham and Crawford. Quite useful for finding pedigrees. A very fine set that shows the usual flaking of the black spine labels.

From the Dr. Lawrence A. Adams library.