Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 162 22 Jan 2022
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Original Boston MFA Catalogue
Brett, Agnes Baldwin. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON: CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS. First edition. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1955. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt. Fine frontispiece; xvi, 340, (2) pages; 115 very fine plates of coins. Very good. [with] Comstock, Mary, and Cornelius Vermeule. GREEK COINS: 1950 TO 1963. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1964. 4to, original printed card covers. 78 pages; 30 fine plates. Very good. The scarce original edition, featuring photographically printed plates superior to those in the reprint. Also included is the supplement. Clain-Stefanelli 1888*. Daehn 1917: "The collection is highly regarded for its fine, artistic specimens and broad scope. Also notable is the large group of Cyzicene electrum coins." Grierson 54–55. Kroh 10: "It publishes 2,348 coins ... all very high quality with many of the extreme rarities in the Greek series. Some of these coins were sold by Numismatic Fine Arts in 1980 ... and so one or two may now reside in your collection."
Brett, Agnes Baldwin. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON: CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS. First edition. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1955. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt. Fine frontispiece; xvi, 340, (2) pages; 115 very fine plates of coins. Very good. [with] Comstock, Mary, and Cornelius Vermeule. GREEK COINS: 1950 TO 1963. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1964. 4to, original printed card covers. 78 pages; 30 fine plates. Very good. The scarce original edition, featuring photographically printed plates superior to those in the reprint. Also included is the supplement. Clain-Stefanelli 1888*. Daehn 1917: "The collection is highly regarded for its fine, artistic specimens and broad scope. Also notable is the large group of Cyzicene electrum coins." Grierson 54–55. Kroh 10: "It publishes 2,348 coins ... all very high quality with many of the extreme rarities in the Greek series. Some of these coins were sold by Numismatic Fine Arts in 1980 ... and so one or two may now reside in your collection."