Coin Collecting Books World Coins 15 Vintage Books CD

It is our design, so far as the compass of this work will allow, to trace the history of our currency up to the present time, and by careful perusal, our Patrons will see that we have endeavored as far as possible to give a correct and faithful description of every coin known to us. It is possible that there may be in existence some specimen of which we have not heard, and probably some collectors may imagine they have found an error, but we can assure them that our facilities have been of such a character (having had access to some cabinets which contain the finest specimens of our coins) that the omissions cannot be either many or important.

The attempt has often been made to condense into a small volume all that is necessary for a beginner in munismatics or a young collector of coins. But success has been less frequent, because the knowledge of coins is essentially a knowledge of details, and small treatises are apt to be unreadable when they contain too many references to particular coins, and miprofitably vague when such references are avoided. I cannot hope that I have passed safely between these two dangers ; indeed, my desire has been to avoid the second at all risk of encountering the former.

This volume of the Catalogue of English Coins contains the description of the earliest Anglo-Saxon money, and that of Mercia, Kent, East Anglia and Northumbria, including the coins of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the coins with the names of Saints struck in these different divisions of the country.

IT is not possible to say, with any degree of certainty, at what precise period our ancient British forefathers acquired a knowledge of the art of coining, or into what part of our island that art was first introduced. The probability, however, amounting almost to a certainty, is that the use of money and, consequently, the art of making it, was introduced into Britain from Gaul; and the Kentish coast being the nearest to that country, and receiving friendly and bartering incursions from the Belgic tribes, with whom, doubtless, the natives traded, the natural assumption is that money was known to, and its use appreciated by, the inhabitants of that county long before those of the inland and more northern parts of the island had any knowledge of such a medium as a substitute for ordinary productbarter.

THE title adopted for this volume is meant to indicate that the idea of such a compilation was inspired by the work of Canon E. L. Hicks, dealing
with Greek inscriptions. It was while I was engaged with Dr. Hicks in preparing the second edition of his book that the thought of making a
selection of coins on the same principle first suggested itself.

IT is unnecessary to apologize for the introduction to the English-reading public of M. Theodore Reinach's little work on Jewish coins. Our thanks are due to him, as well as to his publisher, M. Leroux, for permission to publish the translation, which has been made by my wife, and revised by the author both in manuscript and proof. In many respects it differs from the original edition, especially in regard to the crux of Jewish Numismatics, the question of the shekels. The passages relating to this matter have been entirely rewritten by the author, who has found reason to change his views.

THIS Catalogue contains a description of the Second Portion of the English Coins comprised in the remarkable Collection formed by the late Mr. Hyman Montagu. The series extends from the reign of AEthelraed II to that of Edward VI inclusive. It will be within the recollection of those, who are interested in the dispersion of this Collection, that in the first sale (British and Anglo-Saxon Series) a portion only of the coins of AEthelraed II,
Cnut and Edward the Confessor were included on account of the numerous examples of those reigns contained in the Collection. The remainder is now offered for sale, and we venture to state that this portion will be found to include as many rarities as the previous one; and that the division between the two sales was made as equal as possible.

Limits of the Contribution. The object of this contribution is to give an account from the historical point of view of all the known coinages of ancient and mediaeval India, beginning with the earliest times and extending in each particular instance to a period determined by the
following considerations. In the case of the states of Northern India generally, and those also of Southern India which were situated to the north of the river Kistna, our subject is naturally bounded by those well-defined limits which are, as a rule, afforded by the introduction of the Muhammadan form of coinage as a result of the progress of Muhammadan conquest between c. 1000 and 1310 A.D. In the extreme south, where Muhammadan supremacy was never absolute, and where, consequently, no similar break of continuity occurs in the coinage, our survey will not extend beyond the rise of the kingdom of Vijayanagar in 1326 A.D.

THE two firft kings after the Conqueft: coined only Pennies, of which I have feen fourteen or fifteen different types. They agree, as near as can be judged, in weight and goodnefs, with the pennies of the Saxon kings, their immediate predeceffors. It is therefore reafonable to think that king Wihiam introduced no new weight into his mints ; but that the fame weight ufed there for fome ages after, and called the Pound of the Tower of London, was the old pound of the Saxon moneyers before the Conqueft.

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