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esnible:
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In the H.N. entry for Oricus, Ilyricum,

http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/illyricum.html#Oricus

a bronze type Zeus/Eagle is cited to "[Vienna Cat., I. Pl. V. 8.]".  Any idea what the full name of the title cited is?

slokind:
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search_Arg=Arneth%2C+J.&Search_Code=NAME_&PID=4409&CNT=25&HC=2&SEQ=20040829001826&SID=1

Hard to believe this (a page from LOC on line catalogs) is the one referred to, given the date, but it wouldn't be THAT old to Head, if the ref. goes back to his first edition, and it DOES have plates, though they cannot be photographic at that time.   Too early even for photogravure.  Engraving or perhaps lithographic perhaps.

(Curtis Clay will know better than me)

Pat L.

esnible:
Thanks for your attempt Slokind but that URL you have given didn't work for me.  The Library of Congress says my "session" timed out.

I found the answer, I think, in the new translation of Babelon by Elizabeth Saville.

(page 199)
"The collection at Vienna ... has not yet been catalogued in any detail.  In 1893, however, J. von Schlosser published a preliminary volumne, describing the coins of Thessaly, Illyria, Dalmatia, and Eprius.  [Kunsthistorische Sammlungen der Allerhochsten Kaiserhauses.  Beschreibung der altergriechisgen Munzen, Band I]

http://data.numismatics.org/cgi-bin/showlib?accnum=smp00100144

curtislclay:
Von Schlosser's catalogue is listed in the HN bibliography, p. xxix.

esnible:
True, but he doesn't say "cited as 'Vienna cat'".  I am handicapped by being illiterate in every language save English.

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