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Elder Plates of Tetradrachms
Elder, Thomas L. REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF GREEK TETRADRACHMS. THREE HUNDRED SILVER COINS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS L. ELDER. (New York), undated. Six large photographic plates, 39.5 by 44 cm. Marginal wear and staining; a few small abrasions slightly affecting a few individual coin images, none of them impairing the plates' utility. Very good. Very scarce. The Demanhur hoard, said for some time to have been unearthed in the spring of 1908 but now generally felt more likely to have been discovered in 1905, was widely dispersed into the trade, with some of it coming into Elder's hands. At some point, probably around 1909 or 1910, he published these photographs, providing an important photographic record of the hoard, which totaled around 18,000 pieces. Daehn 3352: "About 150 different monograms/mint-marks are represented." Davis 372.
Elder, Thomas L. REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF GREEK TETRADRACHMS. THREE HUNDRED SILVER COINS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS L. ELDER. (New York), undated. Six large photographic plates, 39.5 by 44 cm. Marginal wear and staining; a few small abrasions slightly affecting a few individual coin images, none of them impairing the plates' utility. Very good. Very scarce. The Demanhur hoard, said for some time to have been unearthed in the spring of 1908 but now generally felt more likely to have been discovered in 1905, was widely dispersed into the trade, with some of it coming into Elder's hands. At some point, probably around 1909 or 1910, he published these photographs, providing an important photographic record of the hoard, which totaled around 18,000 pieces. Daehn 3352: "About 150 different monograms/mint-marks are represented." Davis 372.