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Auction 161  18 Sep 2021
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Lot 435

Starting price: 100 USD
Price realized: 500 USD
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Ten Sotheby's Catalogues from 1909
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. BOUND VOLUME OF SALE CATALOGUES. Includes the following: 3–11 February 1909. Frank Sherman Benson's Greek Coins. Hand-priced. 26 plates. 24–26 February 1909. The Montcara/de Viry ancient and medieval coins. Ancient sections hand-priced. 6 plates. 10 March 1909. Joseph Williams et al. Mostly British. 31 March 1909. C.H.T. Hawkins et al. Greek, British. Ancient sections hand-priced. 20 April 1909. An American Collector's [Hobart Smith's] Greek coins. Mostly hand-priced. 3 plates. 21 April 1909. Greek coins from a Well-Known Cabinet. Mostly hand-priced. 2 plates. 22–23 April 1909. L. White King's Greek coins. Hand-priced. 3 plates. 17–19 May 1909. F.G. Hilton Price's English coins. 6 plates. 21 June–1 July 1909. The Rashleigh collection of English coins. 18 plates. 5–15 July 1909. The Hazlitt collection of coins. Ancient sections hand-priced. 16 plates. Ten catalogues, bound in one volume. Crown 4to, later green boards. In need of rebinding: both boards are detached, the text-block is split in two and there is no backstrip. Good. Ten catalogues from the 1909 season at Sotheby's. Includes the very important catalogue of the Frank Sherman Benson collection of ancient Greek coins, hand-priced: Clain-Stefanelli 1943, Daehn 2106 ("one of the most important collections of Greek coins in private hands in the United States"), Grierson 280, Spring 797 [also listed under "Most important sales of ancient Greek coins"]. The important Rashleigh collection features early British, Anglo-Saxon, English, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Gallic, and Colonial coins, among them rare American colonial coins, including a "Newby farthing in gold," which brought the princely sum of £83. Includes Spring 797–802.
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