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Spink Highlights from 2004
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2004: Another busy and successful year for Books and Publishing

2004 saw the publication of two new titles and a series of reprints of standard works. Michael Metlich’s The Coinage of Ostrogothic Italy is the first detailed study of the subject to have been published since Wroth’s BMC. Elizabeth Saville’s translation into English of Ernest Babelon’s La Numismatique et son Histoire, Ancient Numismatics and Its History, were both published in the Spring. Babelon’s work is the best survey of the subject to have been published, and now translated into English it will enable the work to become more universally appreciated. This has been published as the second volume in the series Studies in the History of Numismatic Literature co-published with G. F. Kolbe.

A number of Spink titles that had been out of print for some time were reprinted during the summer. These included the handy series of monographs originally published under the Seaby imprint: Daphne Nash’s Coinage in the Celtic World, Ian Carradice and Martin Price’s Coinage in the Greek World and Andrew Burnett’s Coinage in the Roman World. Richard Plant’s useful Greek Coin Types was also reprinted. All now appear in distinctive laminated card covers.

We also reprinted the long out-of-print and also extremely useful Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins, by John Melville-Jones, and the companion volume to his equally useful Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins. Kenneth Jenkins’ work Coins in History - Ancient Greek Coins was also reprinted. Secondhand copies of Michael Dickinson’s Seventeenth Century Tokens of the British Isles and their values has been in great demand, and selling for a substantial premium on the published price. A new reprint was published in the late summer.

Roman Silver Coins Volumes I and II were reprinted and now the complete series of five volumes are again available. By popular demand we republished the handy quick reference single-volume 1988 edition of David Sear’s Roman Coins and their Values.

Volumes I (2000) and II (2002) of his major work Roman Coins and their Values continue to sell remarkably well and we envisage publishing Volume III, to complete the series during 2005.

Michael Mitchiner published his major new work Ancient Trade and Early Coinage in the late summer and Spink are the worldwide distributors for it.

The Royal Numismatic Society, for whom Spink act as distributors, published three new titles. Kevin Butcher’s Coinage in Roman Syria appeared in the late summer; Hodge Malek’s The Dabuyid Ispahbads and Early ‘Abbasid Governors of Tabaristan: History and Numismatics was published in the early autumn and at the very end of the year Yolanda Courtney’s Public House Tokens in England and Wales c.1830-c.1920 appeared.

We took over for the Society the distribution of current and back numbers of the British Numismatic Society’s British Numismatic Journal.

We have also purchased a number of collections and libraries of secondhand books on the subject, the most important of which, the library of Professor Georges Le Rider, will be listed for sale in a specially produced fixed price catalogued to be issued in early 2005.

Spink Highlights from 2004
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