ROMAN COINS : ELEMENTARY MANUAL – Gnecchi, 1903 – NUMISMATICS, ANCIENT COINS
ROMAN COINS: ELEMENTARY MANUAL
Book Details + Condition: Spink and Son (London). Second Edition, 1903. Hardcover. 261 pages, with illustrative tables, as well as numerous illustrations of Roman coin examples. Translated by the Rev. Alfred Watson Hands. The author provides a comprehensive guide to the identification, valuation, collecting and displaying of Roman coins. A historical analysis of Roman coins is also provided. Chapters include:
– Collections and Collectors
– The History and Aim of Collections
– Ancient and Modern Collections
– On the Rarity and Value of Coins
– Private and Public Collections
– Special and General Collections
– The Catalogue of A Collection, and The Arrangement of the Coins in the Cabinet
– On the Ancient Deposits Which Have Been Discovered
– Forgeries
– How to Take Impressions and Clean Coins
– Technical Terms
– The Republic: Bronze Coinage
– Silver Coinage
– Companion and Other Coins Struck Outside Rome
– The Officers of the Mint
– The Legends
– Alphabetical Lists of the Families with Notes of the Prices on the Coins
– Alphabetical List of Imperial Names with Prices of Coins
– The Empire: Gold Coins
– Classification of Imperial Coins
– Coins of the Colonies and Provinces
– And more.
Firm binding – interior hinges appear to have had some antique gluing done; wear to boards, with darkening and old scuffing; rubbed corners and edges; pasted-in antique examples of coins to ffep; inked numbers to margins of pages 192 – 203; a few chips and small tears to page edges; toning and occasional age-spotting present.
About the author: Francesco Gnecchi (1847-1919 was an Italian painter and well known numismatist. “The passion for collecting Roman coins that began in 1870 and saw the publication of a number of short works written together with his brother Ercole on the classification of his collection. This comprised some 20,000 items on his death in 1919 and was purchased by the state in 1923 for the Museo Nazionale Romano. The brothers also founded the ‘Rivista italiana di numismatica’ in 1888 and the Italian Numismatic Society in 1892. Gnecchi’s work on numismatics was highly regarded internationally, gaining him the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1906.” [Wikipedia]
