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Original Plated 1913 Sargent Sale
Chapman, S.H. CATALOG OF THE COLLECTION OF GOLD, SILVER & COPPER COINS OF THE UNITED STATES OF ARTHUR SARGENT, ESQ., BOSTON. Philadelphia: S.T. Freeman & Co., June 20, 1913. 8vo, original gilt-printed white paper covers. (2), 45, (1) pages; 732 lots; 9 very fine photographic plates. Hand-priced in pencil. Covers spotted and discolored; contents near fine. Adams 11, with plates. A truly memorable Chapman sale of United States large cents and other pieces. Six of the plates depict coppers, which, Chapman averred, "will make the plate catalog a most valuable and important one to the collector of cents." The assemblage was summarized by Chapman as comprising "a splendid collection of cents, many in extraordinary condition and with a great series of Cents of 1794 including a new reverse die and two varieties unknown to Hays and a new combination unpublished; uncirculated specimens of 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, an excellent 1799, uncirculated specimens of 1800, 2, 3, 1809, 1821, 1823 perfect date, of which last only one other specimen is known in this preservation, etc." Of the remaining three plates, one illustrates rare American gold coins, and the other two depict United States silver dollars, mainly patterns, along with a few rare Massachusetts colonial silver coins. Scarce. Clain-Stefanelli 12420. Davis 221. Ex Kolbe & Fanning's 2013 New York Book Auction, lot 183; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $1000)
Chapman, S.H. CATALOG OF THE COLLECTION OF GOLD, SILVER & COPPER COINS OF THE UNITED STATES OF ARTHUR SARGENT, ESQ., BOSTON. Philadelphia: S.T. Freeman & Co., June 20, 1913. 8vo, original gilt-printed white paper covers. (2), 45, (1) pages; 732 lots; 9 very fine photographic plates. Hand-priced in pencil. Covers spotted and discolored; contents near fine. Adams 11, with plates. A truly memorable Chapman sale of United States large cents and other pieces. Six of the plates depict coppers, which, Chapman averred, "will make the plate catalog a most valuable and important one to the collector of cents." The assemblage was summarized by Chapman as comprising "a splendid collection of cents, many in extraordinary condition and with a great series of Cents of 1794 including a new reverse die and two varieties unknown to Hays and a new combination unpublished; uncirculated specimens of 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, an excellent 1799, uncirculated specimens of 1800, 2, 3, 1809, 1821, 1823 perfect date, of which last only one other specimen is known in this preservation, etc." Of the remaining three plates, one illustrates rare American gold coins, and the other two depict United States silver dollars, mainly patterns, along with a few rare Massachusetts colonial silver coins. Scarce. Clain-Stefanelli 12420. Davis 221. Ex Kolbe & Fanning's 2013 New York Book Auction, lot 183; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $1000)