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Auction 160 22 May 2021
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Anderson Dupont I & II in Original Mailing Box
Stack's. ANDERSON DUPONT CATALOGUE. PART I: U.S. LARGE CENTS, 1793 TO 1857. [with] PART II: UNITED STATES SILVER AND COPPER COINS. New York, September 24–25 and November 11–13, 1954. Two volumes. 8vo, original printed card covers. 92, (2) + 118, (2) pages; 2722 lots; text illustrations; plate supplement; both prices realized lists. The two together, housed in the original mailing box (23 cents worth of stamps still affixed). Fine. Adams A (both sales). A most important collection whose origins are still not fully known. The large cents were catalogued by Dr. Sheldon. According to interviews and research conducted by P. Scott Rubin, Charles J. Dupont was a coin collector/part-time dealer who, with the help of his next door neighbor Charles Anderson, posing as a philatelic expert, acquired the coins and a philatelic collection from an unknown eastern institution. Important segments of the collection, mostly gold coins, were sold privately through Stack's, some ending up in the Lilly collection now at the Smithsonian Institution. Ex Roger Persichilli Library.
Stack's. ANDERSON DUPONT CATALOGUE. PART I: U.S. LARGE CENTS, 1793 TO 1857. [with] PART II: UNITED STATES SILVER AND COPPER COINS. New York, September 24–25 and November 11–13, 1954. Two volumes. 8vo, original printed card covers. 92, (2) + 118, (2) pages; 2722 lots; text illustrations; plate supplement; both prices realized lists. The two together, housed in the original mailing box (23 cents worth of stamps still affixed). Fine. Adams A (both sales). A most important collection whose origins are still not fully known. The large cents were catalogued by Dr. Sheldon. According to interviews and research conducted by P. Scott Rubin, Charles J. Dupont was a coin collector/part-time dealer who, with the help of his next door neighbor Charles Anderson, posing as a philatelic expert, acquired the coins and a philatelic collection from an unknown eastern institution. Important segments of the collection, mostly gold coins, were sold privately through Stack's, some ending up in the Lilly collection now at the Smithsonian Institution. Ex Roger Persichilli Library.