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Auction 167  10 Jun 2023
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Lot 267

Starting price: 100 USD
Price realized: 350 USD
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American Numismatic Society. EXHIBITION OF UNITED STATES AND COLONIAL COINS, JANUARY SEVENTEENTH TO FEBRUARY EIGHTEENTH, 1914. CATALOGUE. New York, 1914. 8vo, original printed card covers. vii, (1), 133, (1) pages; frontispiece; 39 plates of coins. Very good or better. *Error in printed catalogue stated that this was bound in blue cloth.* The important catalogue of this unparalleled exhibition of rare American coins from the finest contemporary collections. The illustrations are keyed to the various owners (Würtzbach, Hillyer Ryder, Granberg, Woodin, Ellsworth, French, etc.) making this work invaluable for tracing pedigrees. The exhibition was especially rich in American colonial coins, rare regular issues, patterns and private gold coins. Four 1804 silver dollars were depicted, belonging at the time to Newcomer, Granberg and Ellsworth (2). Würtzbach's colonials and Woodin's magnificent patterns are also extensively illustrated. In a 1926 list of books for sale, Guttag Brothers termed this the "Million Dollar Book," high praise indeed considering coin values at the time. Clain-Stefanelli 11869. Ex M. Bourne Library.
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