Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Spink & Son's Monthly Numismatic Circular
Author: The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins, Tokens, Commemorative & War Medals, Books & Cabinets
Author: Spink & SonBritish Books
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: The Publisher
Author: Medallic Art of the American Numismatic Society, 1865-2014
Author: Scott H. MillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780897223355
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"During the past 150 years, the American Numismatic Society has been a leader in the publication of art medals in the United States. Generally employing the finest medalists available, the Society has set an example few can match. In addition, with the exception of the United States Mint, no U.S. entity can boast so long and distinguished a contribution in this area. Founded in 1858, the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, as it was known from 1864-1907, believed the issuance of medals to be a part of its mission from the earliest years of its existence. Author Scott H. Miller includes 60 medals issued by the ANS between 1865 and 2014 along with two COAC medals and the 1910 Actors' Fund Medal, all accompanied by color photographs. Many entries are supplemented by artist's sketches and archival photographs as well as the stories behind each issue. Four Appendixes include recipients of some of these medals as well as the list of dies, hubs, galvanos, and casts of ANS medals in the ANS's own collection."
A Checklist of Islamic Coins
Author: Stephen AlbumPublisher: Stephen Album
ISBN: 9780963602411
Category : Coins, Islamic.
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The Confessions of a Collector
Author: William Carew HazlittPublisher: London : Ward & Downey
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Roman Medallions
Author: Jocelyn ToynbeePublisher:
ISBN: 9780897223867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This POD reprint of the original 1944 edition is the first detailed discussion in English of the important series of Roman artistic products commonly known as medallions. These Roman medallions were specially created to be given as gifts to both friends and clients on various state anniversaries.
Passionate Curiosities
Author: Lauren Elizabeth TalalayPublisher: Kelsey Museum Publications
ISBN: 9780990662334
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people whose intellectual interests, financial backing, and social networks brought artifacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. Through purchases and expeditions, these individuals shaped the Museum's internationally recognized antiquities from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, North Africa, Egypt, and the Near East, extensive photographic documentation of these regions from the early 1900s, and significant assemblages of early Christian and Islamic visual culture. An intriguing array of personalities--from archaeologists, missionaries, and diplomats to industrialists, bankrollers, and inventors--weave through these pages. They include Ernst Herzfeld, the eminent Orientalist who helped forge antiquities legislation in Iran; Luigi Cesnola, the rapacious harvester of Cypriot sites; Esther Van Deman, the pioneering feminist and scholar of Roman construction techniques; and Samuel Goudsmit, the renowned nuclear physicist and avid Egyptologist. World-famous dealers who established standards in antiquities connoisseurship likewise populate these sagas. Readers will encounter Edgar J. Banks, a swashbuckling purveyor of Mesopotamian antiquities and entrepreneur of biblical documentary films; Maurice Nahman, the "lion of Cairo"; and the colorful members of the Tano dealer dynasty in Egypt. This copiously illustrated book will interest general readers as well as scholars curious about the holdings of the Kelsey, early collectors and dealers, and the history of museums.