Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 3219. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Wroth, W. Byzantine Coins in the British Museum, comprising two volumes. Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum, and Western and Provincial Byzantine Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum. (Chicago, 1966 reprints of the London 1908 and 1911 editions). cxii, 686 pages with 78 photographic plates, and xciv, 344 pages with 43 photographic plates. Excellent catalogue of one of the largest museum collections of Byzantine coins. The scholarship is mostly superseded, but still an important reference, especially the second volume on "Dark Age" coinage. Red cloth covers, gilt spines. Very Fine condition, dusty. Two (2) volumes in lot. ($200)