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Temple Coins of Olympia
Seltman, Charles T. THE TEMPLE COINS OF OLYMPIA. First separate edition. Cambridge: Reprinted from Nomisma VIII. IX. XI., 1921. Bound in one volume. 4to, later maroon pebbled cloth, gilt; original printed card covers of text bound in. ix, (1), 117, (1) pages; 12 fine plates of coins. Bump to corner of plates. Very good. With a Foreword by Sir William Ridgeway. Issued with the text and plates separate, they have been brought together here. Clain-Stefanelli 2565*. Daehn 4373 ("A detailed examination of the coinage which had traditionally been attributed to the city of Elis. Seltman concludes that this coinage was minted at Olympia. Two separate mints were in operation: one in the precinct of the temple of Zeus which began operations ca. 510 B.C., and one in the precinct of the temple of Hera, which operated ca. 420–323 B.C. Seltman establishes a die sequence for each mint and proposes a new chronology for these issues. Presents a listing of all die varieties of the staters with historical and numismatic commentary on each grouping"). Kroh 33: "a very good die-corpus of the series."
Seltman, Charles T. THE TEMPLE COINS OF OLYMPIA. First separate edition. Cambridge: Reprinted from Nomisma VIII. IX. XI., 1921. Bound in one volume. 4to, later maroon pebbled cloth, gilt; original printed card covers of text bound in. ix, (1), 117, (1) pages; 12 fine plates of coins. Bump to corner of plates. Very good. With a Foreword by Sir William Ridgeway. Issued with the text and plates separate, they have been brought together here. Clain-Stefanelli 2565*. Daehn 4373 ("A detailed examination of the coinage which had traditionally been attributed to the city of Elis. Seltman concludes that this coinage was minted at Olympia. Two separate mints were in operation: one in the precinct of the temple of Zeus which began operations ca. 510 B.C., and one in the precinct of the temple of Hera, which operated ca. 420–323 B.C. Seltman establishes a die sequence for each mint and proposes a new chronology for these issues. Presents a listing of all die varieties of the staters with historical and numismatic commentary on each grouping"). Kroh 33: "a very good die-corpus of the series."