Robinson, David M., and Paul Augustus Clement. EXCAVATIONS AT OLYNTHUS. PART IX: THE CHALCIDIC MINT AND THE EXCAVATION COINS FOUND IN 1928–1934. Baltimore, 1938. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt. (2), xxxi, (3), 413, (1) pages; folding résumé; 35 fine plates of coins; 1 plan showing areas excavated. Supplementary materials, including Clement’s 1970 Epilogue, laid in. Ex Johns Hopkins University Library, with their bookplate. Spine worn at head and tail; very good or better. The only substantial reference on the coins of Olynthus. Rarely offered. Remarkably, BCD had two copies of this essential study: the first, a bit more nicely preserved, brought $4750 hammer in our first BCD Library sale. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology No. 26. Clement’s Epilogue was based on a coin in the Burton Berry collection that did not fit in the arrangement suggested by Robinson and Clement. While Clement tried his best to rearrange the coinage, Sylvia Hurter, in a 1999 Numismatic Chronicle article, demonstrated that the Berry coin was a forgery and that Clement’s rearrangement was unnecessary. Clain-Stefanelli 3281. Daehn 3289: “Examines the gold and silver coinage issued by the Olynthian Chalcidians to establish its chronology... Presents a corpus of every known specimen of the gold and silver coinage of the Chalcidic mint at Olynthus.”
Price realized | 1'400 USD |
Starting price | 1'000 USD |
Estimate | 1'500 USD |