410, Lot: 602. Estimate $50. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Head, Barclay V. Historia Numorum. A manual of Greek numismatics . (Oxford, 1887). 808 pages with 5 plates of supplementary material (ancient alphabets and monograms), as well as some in-line halftone images of coins. Hardbound in quarter Morocco. First edition of Head’s classic encyclopedic manual of Ancient Greek coinage. Clain-Stefanelli 1832*. Fine condition overall with some age showing to the leather portion on the spine, as well as marks to the boards.

NB: the asterisk incorporated into the Clain-Stefanelli number was included by E.V. Clain-Stefanelli to indicate that that title should be part of a basic numismatic library.