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The E-Sylum: Volume 27, Number 41, October 13, 2024, Article 15

MORE COINS ON BOOK COVERS

Last week David Vagi kicked off a discussion of non-numismatic books with images of coins on their covers. Bob Van Arsdell supplied these. Thanks! -Editor

1) Pound, Arthur, 1934, The Turning Wheel, with "25th Anniversary of General Motors" medal by Norman Bel Geddes, Medallic Art Company silver-stamped on cover (actual medal placed on book cover for comparison and reverse of the medal imaged separately).

Book Cover Hoards, Hounds and Helmets title page

2) Score, Vicki, 2011, Hoards, Hounds and Helmets, Excavation Report for Hallaton, Leicestershire, UK. (shows Hallaton Hoard of Celtic Corieltauvian coins found during excavations).

3) Childe, V. Gordon, 1926, The Aryans – a study of Indo-European Origins. (with gold-stamped image of Athenian Owl coin reverse). The publisher would use this same gold stamp on Childe's books for over 20 years.

Book Cover Dawn of Civilization title page

4) Childe, V. Gordon, 1947, The Dawn of Civilization, 4th edition (enlargement of the same gold-stamped coin image; it appears the gold-stamping die may have been touched-up at some point or perhaps replaced entirely because the images are not identical).

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: OCTOBER 6, 2024 : Coins on Book Covers (https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n40a10.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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