Kolbe & Fanning
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The Frossard Sale, Finely Bound, with Plates
Frossard, Ed. CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS OF ED. FROSSARD, OF IRVINGTON, N.Y. COMPRISING EARLY ISSUES OF THE AMERICAN MINT, REMARKABLE ALIKE FOR BEAUTY AND RARITY. COLONIAL COINS, PATTERN PIECES, JACKSONIAN AND FEUCHTWANGER CURRENCY, CONFEDERATE COINS AND MEDALS, A SET OF 1794 CENTS AND HALF CENTS. AMERICAN MEDALS, SILVER; FRACTIONAL CURRENCY, ETC., ETC. RARE AND VALUABLE REPRESENTATIVE FOREIGN COINS OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES, IN GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM AND COPPER. New York: Bangs, October 2-3, 1884. 8vo, later blue quarter morocco gilt; spine with two raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. 77, (3) pages; 1038 lots; 9 fine tinted heliotype plates; original printed prices realized list bound in. Somewhat trimmed, but fine. Adams 37, with plates. A very handsome copy of the important Frossard collection, with 9 heliotype plates. A thick-paper copy, one of only 100 issued. Rated A+ by Adams: "Silver store cards. 1797 small eagle $10. 1797 6 stars $2.50. Shooting thalers. 1794 1¢ varieties." The catalogue is justly famous for Frossard's remarkably fine collection of 1794 cents. The sale also featured rare and important coins in many other fields. Even regular catalogues have been scarce from the time of issue. Frossard notes in the errata sheet at the end of this special edition that "The supply of this Catalogue having fallen far short of the demand, subscribers who have no further use for their copies of the ORDINARY EDITION ARE EARNESTLY REQUESTED TO RETURN THE SAME." Frossard was among the first to catch '94 Fever, later expanding the 1869 and 1870 works by Edward Maris with the help of the collection of William Wallace Hays, to compile what remained the standard work on the subject until William Sheldon's Early American Cents. Davis 406. Fanning, Ancient Coins in Early American Auctions, 41. Ex Charles Davis's sale of May 5, 2005, lot 44; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $500)
Frossard, Ed. CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS OF ED. FROSSARD, OF IRVINGTON, N.Y. COMPRISING EARLY ISSUES OF THE AMERICAN MINT, REMARKABLE ALIKE FOR BEAUTY AND RARITY. COLONIAL COINS, PATTERN PIECES, JACKSONIAN AND FEUCHTWANGER CURRENCY, CONFEDERATE COINS AND MEDALS, A SET OF 1794 CENTS AND HALF CENTS. AMERICAN MEDALS, SILVER; FRACTIONAL CURRENCY, ETC., ETC. RARE AND VALUABLE REPRESENTATIVE FOREIGN COINS OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES, IN GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM AND COPPER. New York: Bangs, October 2-3, 1884. 8vo, later blue quarter morocco gilt; spine with two raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. 77, (3) pages; 1038 lots; 9 fine tinted heliotype plates; original printed prices realized list bound in. Somewhat trimmed, but fine. Adams 37, with plates. A very handsome copy of the important Frossard collection, with 9 heliotype plates. A thick-paper copy, one of only 100 issued. Rated A+ by Adams: "Silver store cards. 1797 small eagle $10. 1797 6 stars $2.50. Shooting thalers. 1794 1¢ varieties." The catalogue is justly famous for Frossard's remarkably fine collection of 1794 cents. The sale also featured rare and important coins in many other fields. Even regular catalogues have been scarce from the time of issue. Frossard notes in the errata sheet at the end of this special edition that "The supply of this Catalogue having fallen far short of the demand, subscribers who have no further use for their copies of the ORDINARY EDITION ARE EARNESTLY REQUESTED TO RETURN THE SAME." Frossard was among the first to catch '94 Fever, later expanding the 1869 and 1870 works by Edward Maris with the help of the collection of William Wallace Hays, to compile what remained the standard work on the subject until William Sheldon's Early American Cents. Davis 406. Fanning, Ancient Coins in Early American Auctions, 41. Ex Charles Davis's sale of May 5, 2005, lot 44; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $500)