The Coinage of Suffolk: Consisting Of The Regal Coins, Leaden Pieces, And Tokens of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. Together with notices of the mints and of some of the issues of tokens. By Charles Golding.

GOLDING, Charles .:

Verlag: London: Printed For Private Distribution Only Printed By J E Taylor And Co Little Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1868

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First edition. 4to. pp.xi./pp.100 + 6 plates . Compliment slip inserted before half title: "Copy No. 27. Presented to The Rev. J. H. Pollexfen, Colchester. With the best wishes and respects of The Author. June 16, 1868." A very good later quarter calf binding. Maroon morocco spine over maroon buckram boards. Gilt titlesand bands to spine. Recent clean endpapers. Compliment-slip inserted before half-tile. Title in red & black. Clean text and illustrations throughout. VG. ** Reverend John Hutton Pollexfen MD, FSA. (1813 - 1899). A renowned coin collector, he was also a plant collector and algologist. He took a degree as Doctor of Medicine at Edinburgh University, but later studied theology and was ordained in 1844. From 1851 he was rector of St Runwald, Colchester, moving to Yorkshire in 1870 where he became vicar first of East Witton, Bedale, and then from 1874 until his death of Middleton Tyas, Richmond. In the Glasgow Exhibition Catalogue of 1876, Edward Burns describes Pollexfen as A ripe and accomplished numismatist, who has long made Scottish coins the subject of loving study'. He was greatly handicapped by very poor sight in his right eye." - See Scottish Coin Collectors by Lord Stewartby 1996 . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 50450

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Titel: The Coinage of Suffolk: Consisting Of The ...

Verlag: London: Printed For Private Distribution Only Printed By J E Taylor And Co Little Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields

Erscheinungsdatum: 1868

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage