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Plated 1920 Henry Miller Sale in Original Binding
Elder, Thomas L. CATALOGUE OF THE SPLENDID RARE COIN COLLECTION OF THE LATE HENRY C. MILLER, ESQ. New York: Daniel R. Kennedy, May 26-29, 1920. Small 4to [25.5 by 21.5 cm], original black cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. 154, (6) pages; 2212 lots; 28 superb photographic plates on cloth hinges; original prices realized list laid in. Ex James R. Hanten, Watertown, So. Dak., with his signature on front pastedown. Binding slightly rubbed; some light signs of wear throughout. Near fine. Adams 172, with plates. Rated A+ overall: "Superb English, especially early. Solid Roman. Magnificent colonials: Sommer shilling and 6d, NE shilling, Washington 50¢. Carolina Lords Proprietors, and definitive Connecticut cents. A few books." A magnificent collection of early English coins, Roman silver coins and important American colonial coins. By far best remembered today, however, for including Miller's collection of Connecticut coppers, on which he wrote what is still the standard reference (based partly on prior work by Dr. Thomas Hall). Plated Miller sales are noted rarities and have always been desirable: in his description of a copy in a 1929 auction catalogue, Elder wrote: "Very rare. Not over 8 or 10 Plate catalogs were issued. Probably none other to be had anywhere for sale. Ought to bring $15 to $20." (The market for these has, suffice to say, increased.) The first eight plates depict British coins from Celtic times to Queen Victoria, including several Roman Republican coins; the ninth through twenty-second plates illustrate a wide variety of ancient Roman coins, along with a few Byzantine pieces and several coins of Roman Egypt; and the final six plates are devoted to American colonial coins. Clain-Stefanelli 14081. Davis 365. Fanning, Ancient Coins in Early American Auctions, 36. Ex Kolbe & Fanning's 2012 New York Book Auction, lot 279; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $2500)
Elder, Thomas L. CATALOGUE OF THE SPLENDID RARE COIN COLLECTION OF THE LATE HENRY C. MILLER, ESQ. New York: Daniel R. Kennedy, May 26-29, 1920. Small 4to [25.5 by 21.5 cm], original black cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. 154, (6) pages; 2212 lots; 28 superb photographic plates on cloth hinges; original prices realized list laid in. Ex James R. Hanten, Watertown, So. Dak., with his signature on front pastedown. Binding slightly rubbed; some light signs of wear throughout. Near fine. Adams 172, with plates. Rated A+ overall: "Superb English, especially early. Solid Roman. Magnificent colonials: Sommer shilling and 6d, NE shilling, Washington 50¢. Carolina Lords Proprietors, and definitive Connecticut cents. A few books." A magnificent collection of early English coins, Roman silver coins and important American colonial coins. By far best remembered today, however, for including Miller's collection of Connecticut coppers, on which he wrote what is still the standard reference (based partly on prior work by Dr. Thomas Hall). Plated Miller sales are noted rarities and have always been desirable: in his description of a copy in a 1929 auction catalogue, Elder wrote: "Very rare. Not over 8 or 10 Plate catalogs were issued. Probably none other to be had anywhere for sale. Ought to bring $15 to $20." (The market for these has, suffice to say, increased.) The first eight plates depict British coins from Celtic times to Queen Victoria, including several Roman Republican coins; the ninth through twenty-second plates illustrate a wide variety of ancient Roman coins, along with a few Byzantine pieces and several coins of Roman Egypt; and the final six plates are devoted to American colonial coins. Clain-Stefanelli 14081. Davis 365. Fanning, Ancient Coins in Early American Auctions, 36. Ex Kolbe & Fanning's 2012 New York Book Auction, lot 279; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $2500)