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Original BMC Corinth
British Museum. CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS. CORINTH, COLONIES OF CORINTH, ETC. By Barclay V. Head. London, 1889. 8vo, later black pebbled cloth, gilt. lxviii, 174, (2) pages; 39 fine plates. Near fine. A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum, Volume 12. The scarce original edition of this particularly notable volume, with superior plates. A copy recently sold in one of our auctions for an impressive $1600 hammer. Clain-Stefanelli 1888*. Daehn 1776 & 4261: "Covers the coinage of Corinth and other cities which assimilated Corinthian coinage. Sixty-eight pages of introductory text precede the 174-page catalogue of coins." Grierson 54–55.
British Museum. CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS. CORINTH, COLONIES OF CORINTH, ETC. By Barclay V. Head. London, 1889. 8vo, later black pebbled cloth, gilt. lxviii, 174, (2) pages; 39 fine plates. Near fine. A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum, Volume 12. The scarce original edition of this particularly notable volume, with superior plates. A copy recently sold in one of our auctions for an impressive $1600 hammer. Clain-Stefanelli 1888*. Daehn 1776 & 4261: "Covers the coinage of Corinth and other cities which assimilated Corinthian coinage. Sixty-eight pages of introductory text precede the 174-page catalogue of coins." Grierson 54–55.