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Agnes Baldwin Brett

fl. 1935–1970 · United States

American collector and numismatist, active 1935–1970.

Life and work

  1. 1935–1936
    Supplied information on a Benha hoard of Ptolemaic gold and octadrachms that included Salamis, Kition and Joppa mint pieces (1935), and attributed Athenian-type tetradrachms to Soli on Cyprus under Eunostos (1936).

    American Numismatic Society, ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs, nos. 72-78 (1937)

  2. 1936
    Published in the 1936 Transactions of the International Numismatic Congress the Athenian tetradrachms with Athena Alkidemos reverse; Baldwin attributed these coins to Soli on Cyprus under Eunostos.

    Adolph Hess Nachfolger (Firm : Lucerne, Switzerland), Antike Münzen : griechische, römische und byzantinische Münzen (1957)

  3. 1938
    Numismatist who tentatively attributed certain coins to Kourion in 1938 and owned a collection of seals.

    Pyramidal Stamp Seals in the Persian Empire (1970), p. 40

  4. 1938
  5. 1947–1955
    Numismatist who dated Ptolemaic coins of Kition and Salamis (1947) and wrote the catalogue of Greek coins in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1955); her cylinder seals included one showing a smiting god on a sphinx.

    American Numismatic Society, Numismatic Literature (1947-1949) (1949)

  6. 1955
    Published a gold octadrachm from Ptolemaic coinage in American Numismatic Society Museum Notes and wrote the Catalogue of Greek Coins of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1955), citing Cyprus-mint Kition coins.

    Classical Bulletin 1956-01: Vol 32 Iss 3 (1956)

  7. Undated
    Her collection of cylinder seals included a group catalogued as 'Hittite (Cypriote)', nos. 86–102.

    Syria revue Dʼart oriental et Dʼarcheologie tome.19 (1938)

  8. Undated
    Owned cylinder seals catalogued as Hittite (Cypriote) in the Brett collection

    Syria Revue Dart Oriental Et Darcheologie Tome.19 (1938)

  9. Undated

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

Mentioned in

2 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Syria revue Dʼart oriental et Dʼarcheologie tome.19 (1938).
  2. 2.Syria Revue Dart Oriental Et Darcheologie Tome.19 (1938).
  3. 3.American Numismatic Society, Numismatic Literature (1947-1949) (1949).
  4. 4.Classical Bulletin 1956-01: Vol 32 Iss 3 (1956).
  5. 5.P. R. S. Moorey; Father Roland de Vaux; H. W. Catling; J. Wilkinson; O. Negbi; D. Collon; R. Amiran; N. K. Sandars; W. Culican; Henry O. Thompson; Virginia Webb; R. W. Hamilton; Mrs. C-M. Bennett; Rev. A. G. Auld, Levant: Journal of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, Volume IV (1972).
  6. 6.Pyramidal Stamp Seals in the Persian Empire (1970).
  7. 7.International Congress of Numismatics (15th : 2015 : Taormina, Italy), XV International Numismatic Congress Taormina 2015 Proceedings / edited by Maria Caccamo Caltabiano ; coeditors, Benedetto Carroccio, Daniele Castrizio, Mariang (2017).
  8. 8.American Numismatic Society, ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs, nos. 72-78 (1937).
  9. 9.Adolph Hess Nachfolger (Firm : Lucerne, Switzerland), Antike Münzen : griechische, römische und byzantinische Münzen (1957).
  10. 10.Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Syria Revue Dart Oriental Et Darcheologie Tome.19 (1938).

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