Sylloge of Coins of British Isles Volume 30, American Collections. Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins by BRADY, Jeremiah D.

1982. Xxiv, 76 pages, including 30 fine plates, each with descriptive text. Cloth. NEW!

One purpose of a volume of American collections to be published in the series of the SCBI was to make the institutional collections of the American Numismatic Society in New York, the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington available to students who because of distance or other reasons might have found them difficult to access. Around these three collections there was an intention to gather such additional material as might prove forthcoming from private hands.The institutional collections provide the bulk of the coins published here. Each cabinet has a peculiar history, each has its interesting features, but at least for the two in New York and Washington no claim can be made for a long and specialized interest in Anglo-Saxon and Norman coinage. The really remarkable coins individually are rather to be found for the most part in the private collections.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
Acknoledgements
Introductions
Abbreviations of Contributors
Bibliography
PLATES I - XXX
Index of Mints
Index of Moneyers
Index of Topographical Provenance
Little bit more about serial publication Sylloge of Coins of British Isles:

The major serial publication relating to British Hammered Coinage. Published by Oxford University Press & Spink and Son for the British Academy.

The Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles has been one of the most productive series of numismatic books.

Inspired by its Ancient Greek counterpart, the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, it was established in the 1950's to provide detailed descriptions and photographic illustrations of a large body of British coinage in order to facilitate its close study, especially using die and stylistic analyses. Many of the earlier volumes concentrated on Anglo-Saxon coinage, where this new approach was proving particularly rewarding.

By publishing coins held in one hundred and fifty museums in Britain and Ireland, and others in Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Russia and the United States, the student has at his fingertips an astonishing amount of material on which to base his studies.

Latterly, a number of volumes have focused on the later medieval and early modern periods, and important specialist collections have been selected for publication with an extended introduction discussing the classification, chronology and other features of the coinage. Thus Edwardian sterlings, medieval and Tudor gold, and the coinages of Henry VII, Charles I and Scotland have all been treated in this way.

The eight volumes on seventeenth century tokens in the Norweb collection, when complete, will be the standard reference work for this series, superseding Williamson which has held that position for a hundred years.

A landmark was reached with the recent publication of the fiftieth volume, but the series will continue, evolving and adapting to meet the needs of modern study in a range of disciplines.