Italian cast coinage: Italian Aes Grave and Italian Aes Rude, Signatum
and the Aes Grave of Sicily by Thurlow, Bradbury K. and Italo G. Vecchi.
London, 1979. 50 pages, 82 plates, map, index, concordance with
Sydenham, table of market values. Hardcover, cloth with dust jacket.
Very Fine condition, covers warped as the way it is bounded. Out of print first edition.
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(***** 5 Stars). This 1979 work is really two books in one. Using the
latest research and dating, it contains 50 pages of brief but useful
and informative text and 82 very decent plates which illustrate every
known variety. Good concordance with Sydenham and Crawford make it a
vital reference, includes useful rarity valuations. An essential
handbook for the collector Roman Republican bronzes.
A superb
catalogue of the broad series of cast coinages of Rome and her
surrounds. The standard reference on Aes Grave and Aes Signatum, easy
to use, all examples illustrated.