Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 2252. Estimate $30.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Franke, P.R., et al. Side: Münzprägung, Inschriften und Geschichte einer antiken Stadt in der Türkei. (Saarbrücken, 1988.) 68 pages, with numerous photographs of coins in the text, color photographs of the site of Side, and fold-out map. Text in German. Custom binding in blue half leatherette and marbled boards, original card covers bound in. Near New condition.

Ex libris Georges le Rider, with a typewritten personal note from P.R. Franke, commenting on several Turkish coin hoards.