Elsen coin catalogs.  Glossy, large format, 8 1/4" by 11 5/8", with page plates, with excellent B&W photos. 

Most have some very high quality coins and many inexpensive coins, including many common denarii, ants, and AE. They have excellent groups of high-quality common coins not phtographed in catalogs of firms that emphasize only expensive coins. For example, they may have late Roman copper or Sasanian drachms or Byzantine AE of common types. When they have Byzantine coins, they often have many AE (unlike some of the major firms who emphasize only gold). A few issues have special emphases on themes that I will note here. They often have good runs of Byzantine AE and Sasasanian drachms.


Auctions:   Numbers usually count page plates of photos (unless "coins" specifically mentioned), not numbers of coins
48  (1997, Feb. 22)  4 1/2 ppl of Byzantine including AE
50  25 ancients among 60.
51  22 ancients among 41

53  (1998, March 14)  8 ppl of late Roman, 15 ppl of Byzantine, mostly AE
53  (1998, March 14) "Collection G. W. de Wit: Les deux Rome de Diocletian to the fall of Constantinople."  MLV. MQP. 1209 ancient coins among 2046. 562 Diocletian through Byzantine, mostly AE, on 16 ppl, plus another 21 ppl with 84 G, 125 RR, 184 RI before Diocletian, plus another 254 Diocletian-Byzantine.
    Late Roman AE and Byzantine AE (among 800)

54  25 ancients among 94.
55  33 ancients among 75.  6 Byz.
56  17 ancients among 80.  2 Celtic.

58  (1999, June 12)  20 ppl of Byzantine, much AE,  including some of the Cherson mint, 3 ppl of Gaul, 4 ppl of Republican AE, among 55 ppl of anceints.
58  29 ancients among 58. 2.5 Black Sea, Roman gold throughout, 2 late Roman gold, 4 Byz gold, 0.7 DA.
    Roman and late Roman gold
59  25 among many. 3 Black Sea
60  (1999, Dec. 11-12)  31 ancients among many. 2 Celtic. 10 G, 1 Black Sea, 1 G-Oriental, 1 RR, 8 RI, 1.5 RP, 3.5 Byz, 0.5 Turkoman
62  (2000, June 24)  24 ancients among many. 1.5 Spansih, 0.5 Celtic, 8 G, 3 Black Sea, 2 Sas, 0 RR, 8 RI
    Black Sea (3)
63  (2000, Sept. 16)  43 ancients + 4 Arabic among 77. 1.5 Celtic, 20 G, 2 RR, 13 RI, 3 Byz gold, 1 Parthian, 1 Sas, 1 G-Oriental
66  ((2001, June 16-17) 24 ancients among 75. 5 Celtic, 7 G, 0 RR, 6 RI, 3 Roman gold, 2 Byz gold, 1.5 DA.
    Celtic (5)
69  (2002, March 16)  30 ancients plus 9 Arabic among 82.  2.5 Celtic, 10 G, 3 RR, 7 RI (ncluding 2 late Roman gold), 3 Byz, 5 Sas, 1 DA, 9 Arabic
    Sasanian (5)
74   (6 June 2003)  Collection of Sasanian and Islamic, plus many Greek fractions. 1031 ancient coins on 36 ppl, including 2 page plates of Parthian (45) and 6 page plates of Sasanian, including obols (173)  
    Greek fractions (100?) , 2 page plates of Parthian (45) and 6 page plates of Sasanian, including obols (173) 
77  (2003, Dec. 13)  22 among many. 1 Celtic, 4 G, 1 Ss, 1.5 RR, 11 RI, 1 RP, 2 Byz
79  (2004, April 3) does not have ancients
85  (2005, Sept. 10)  19 among many. 1 Celtic, 2 G, 1 RR, 10 RI, 1 RP, 3 Byz, 1 DA




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