MORE ON READY’S BRITISH MUSEUM REPLICAS

“The prices set on 10 June 1882 were:
Full set of Greek coins (800 pieces) £125
Selection of finest coins with some Roman (400 pieces) £70.
Selection of Classical Greek coins (200 pieces) £33.
Selection from plates in the Guide (87 pieces) £14.
Single electrotypes, according to page viii of the Guide cost 2 shillings and 6 pence each.
(signed) Martin Price.”

(A photocopy reports that: Mr Ready, electrotypist, British Museum, supplies single electrotypes (obverse and reverse) of any of the coins described in the Guide, at 2 shillings and 6 pence each. Complete sets for Museums, schools etc, classified and labelled, in cases lined with velvet, as in the British Museum, can also be obtained from him. The Guide is – “Department of Coins and Medals. A guide to the select Greek and Roman coins exhibited in electrotype. 1880”).

Tetradrachm, Alexander the Great, 33mm

Tetradrachm, Alexander and King Porus, 35mm

Ready copy Tetradrachm, Eukratides I of Bactria, 33mm

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
ROBERT READY’S BRITISH MUSEUM REPLICAS (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n11a12.html)

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