Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 165 3 Dec 2022
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Virgil Brand's Chicago Coin Company
Chicago Coin Company. CATALOGUE OF A DETROIT COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES SILVER AND MINOR COINS, INCLUDING DOLLAR OF 1794, QUARTER DOLLAR OF 1823, AND MANY OTHER RARE AND DESIRABLE SPECIMENS, WITH SEVERAL OTHER PROPERTIES CONSISTING OF GOLD DOLLARS, THREE DOLLARS, WIRE EDGE TWENTY DOLLARS, TERRITORIAL GOLD COINS, A SET OF SWEDISH COPPER PLATE MONEY, A COLLECTION OF U. S. PAPER MONEY CONTAINING AN EXCESSIVELY RARE UNITED STATES FRACTIONAL CURRENCY FIFTY CENT NOTE, ETC., ETC. Chicago: Theophile E. Leon, Manager, April 29, 1910. 8vo, original printed card covers. 23, (1) pages; 560 lots; "Corrections" slip tipped in the inside cover. Bid sheet laid in. Slight envelope residue on front cover. Fine. The first and only auction sale conducted by Virgil Brand's coin firm, managed by Ted Leon. In his biography of Brand, Q. David Bowers calls this catalogue "one of the scarcest pieces of numismatic ephemera from the era." Widely held to have been catalogued by Brand himself. This copy is essentially as new. Ex Charles Davis's Mar. 4, 2000 sale, lot 23; ex Kolbe & Fanning Sale 124, lot 574 at an impressive $900 hammer; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
Estimate: 200 USD
Chicago Coin Company. CATALOGUE OF A DETROIT COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES SILVER AND MINOR COINS, INCLUDING DOLLAR OF 1794, QUARTER DOLLAR OF 1823, AND MANY OTHER RARE AND DESIRABLE SPECIMENS, WITH SEVERAL OTHER PROPERTIES CONSISTING OF GOLD DOLLARS, THREE DOLLARS, WIRE EDGE TWENTY DOLLARS, TERRITORIAL GOLD COINS, A SET OF SWEDISH COPPER PLATE MONEY, A COLLECTION OF U. S. PAPER MONEY CONTAINING AN EXCESSIVELY RARE UNITED STATES FRACTIONAL CURRENCY FIFTY CENT NOTE, ETC., ETC. Chicago: Theophile E. Leon, Manager, April 29, 1910. 8vo, original printed card covers. 23, (1) pages; 560 lots; "Corrections" slip tipped in the inside cover. Bid sheet laid in. Slight envelope residue on front cover. Fine. The first and only auction sale conducted by Virgil Brand's coin firm, managed by Ted Leon. In his biography of Brand, Q. David Bowers calls this catalogue "one of the scarcest pieces of numismatic ephemera from the era." Widely held to have been catalogued by Brand himself. This copy is essentially as new. Ex Charles Davis's Mar. 4, 2000 sale, lot 23; ex Kolbe & Fanning Sale 124, lot 574 at an impressive $900 hammer; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
Estimate: 200 USD