This used ARCHEOLOGICAL MAP OF MIDDLE AMERICA (IRP3) was published in 1968 by National Geographic Magazine. The 19" x 25" folded multi-colored and indexed map locates archaeological sites in the south half of Mexico including the entire Yucatan, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and western Honduras. Included are inset site maps of Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, and Tikal...
Written on a folded 7 ¾” x 9 ½” sheet with an address of 526 Holly Avenue (penciled above is the notation ‘St. Paul Minn’), this letter (89.579HD) was written and signed by ommissary General Michael R. Morgan who as a Brevet Brigadier General sat at the court martial of General George Armstrong Custer at Fort Leavenworth in 1867...
This varied assortment (98.5FHD; 100.26, 31C&D, 71D, 90E&O, 186A&DHD; and FP1365R, U&AP) contains bronze, billon, and silver coins ranging in age from the 2nd century BC to c.1840 (ancient times to the Spanish Colonial Period). Included are those from the reigns of such figures as Philip IV, Alexander Jannaeus, Basil I, and Leo VI. Scythian, Kushan, Judaic, and Indo-Scythian periods are all included. Prices ranging from $30 to $550 offer something for the beginning to the advanced collector...
This letter (89.648HD), written on a folded 8 ½” x 11” sheet of THE MERIDEN BIRD CLUB stationery and signed by Ernest Harold Baynes, is dated “7th of Feb. 1923” and is addressed to Mr. Howland. It reads, “Dear Mr. Howland, I know that there is every intention on the part of the publishers of Nature Magazine to continue it indefinitely. I have contracted to do one article a month for a year at least, and I have already written three, which have been paid for...
The Clyde Pharr consignment is made up of mostly ancient Greek and Roman coins, a lesser number of Byzantine coins, a few groups of antiquities, and a handful of middle age and historic coins. The collection is offered for rapid review on nine pages using our browser efficient and popular ‘Group of Twelve’ format where each of the twelve items on one page is priced individually on its own descriptive photo. Some of the coins are attributed, some are not...
This assorted group of twelve ancient Greek bronze and silver coins (92.60DHD, 95.147HD, 95.264HD, 96.114UHD, 96.114ABHD, 97.181HD, 99.25HD, 100.23BHD, 100.55HD, 100.186DHD, ROW18, and ROW20B1) date into the period from 430BC to 72AD. Include are coins either commemorating or from the following reigns or areas: Aitolia, Alexander III, Antiochus IV, Appolodotus, Ariathes V, Corinthian, Menander, Mithradates, Ptolemaic, Sicyon, and Syria...
The individually priced ancient Roman coin types in this group (95.151 & 190HD; 96.114C & 1127HD; 97.134, 143, 147, 157 & 158HD; 99.102A & BHD; and FP1206S) include: antoninianus, denarius, follis, and tetradrachm. Representing the period from 193 to 324AD, the individuals commemorated include: Diocletian, Elagabulus, Faustina Jr, Gallienus, Licinius, Maximinus (?), Septimus Severus, Trajan Decius, and Vicorinus. Prices for the coins range from $10 to $175...
The twelve Byzantine coins in this group (96.20HD, 99.119HD, 99.121HD, 99.127HD, 100.73GHD, 100.73BHD, 100.90KHD, 100.90LHD, 100.90MHD, 100.90NHD, 100.98HHD, and 100.104HD) are attributed to the Byzantine Empire and date between the years 457-1028AD. Included in this group are mints of Basil I & Constantine, Basil II, Justin II, Justinian I, Leo, Leo III, Michael III & Basil I, Romanus I, and Zeno...
The twelve assorted silver and bronze ancient Greek coins in this group (96.114ZHD, 96.114AAHD, 99.4HD, 99.24HD, 100.23AHD, 100.29HD, 100.30AHD, 100.184HHD, ROW15C, ROW19, ROW20C, and ROW20D) date from 430BC to the 2nd Century AD. Included are coins either commemorating or from the following reigns or areas: Achaean League, Alexander III, Antialkidas, Antiochus III, Menander, Philiasia/Phlius, Seleucus, Sicyon, Thebes/Boeotia, and Thespiai/Boeotia...
The twelve assorted Greek and Roman silver and bronze coins in this group (ROW 14, 20B2, 20H, 20i, 21, 22A-B, 24B-C, 25A-B, and 26) are all from the collection of the late Prof. Clyde Pharr, noted educator and author of publications on classical Greek and Roman writings. Pharr collected most of these coins in the early 20th century while visiting archaeological digs in the Mediterranean area...
This 5 ¾” x 10 ¼” WAR DEPARTMENT SIGNAL OFFICE order form ((89.581HD) is signed by A. W. Greely. The order is to the SPENCER LENS COMPANY in Buffalo, NY for “One Telescope, with 3 inch object glass, variable eyepiece for magnification 30 to 60 times, with mounting for fastening to posts or trees, $90.00. To be engraved on first draw tube Signal Corps, U. S. Army. April, 1898...
The two 17th century Spanish Colonial coins in this lot (AK153A and B) are priced and offered individually. The first, AK153A, is a silver one real minted in Lima, Peru, dated 1694, and from the reign of Chares II. It has an assayer mark of ‘M’. The second coin, AK153B, is a ½ real minted in Potosi, Bolivia, dated 1660, and is also from the reign of Charles II. Both coins show significant wear from circulation, and both are the Spanish cob type. Each comes with a small display card and our ...