Excerpt from Guide to the Catharine Page Perkins Collection of Greek and Roman Coins The Catharine Page Perkins collection of Greek and Roman coins represents a portion of the purchases which have been made for the Classical Department of the Museum with the munificent bequest of the lady in whose memory it is named. It consists of 609 specimens, which were acquired in three lots, in 1895, 1897, and 1900 respectively. The formation of each of these lots was the work of several years on the part of a devoted friend of the Museum, who has had unusual opportunities for securing choice examples, and who has constantly kept before himself the highest standard of excellence as the test for the acceptance of each coin that was to come into our collection. As a result the collection, though small, is of remarkably high quality, for both the beauty and the brilliant preservation of its individual specimens, some of which are exceedingly rare, and a few are probably unique. As evidence of the estimation in which certain of them are held by connoisseurs, it may be of interest to state that one coin now in this collection was sold at a London auction a few years ago for over $1500, and another, at a different sale, brought over $900. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.