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  1. Welcome to E-Auction 50

    E clectic, varied, sometimes unusual, but always with a concern to present a well-rounded offering of historic and attractive pieces—this is the goal that guides us each time we put together a catalog. In this sale you will see gold coins at a time when ...

  2. Early Dated Coinage

    For early dated coinage in E-Auction 49 see lots 132-139   D ates on coins are "a really big deal." Add a mintmark on a U.S. coin and it can be even more costly (look up an 1893 Morgan dollar with a small "S" on the reverse...). Though ...

  3. Welcome to E-Auction 49

    E-Auction 49 opens with gold coins—some where the values are numismatically based and a larger group whose numismatic cost premium has been practically eclipsed by the recent jumps in the value of gold.  The best numismatic piece in this sale is a choice ...

  4. A Style of Their Own

    A few notes on Scottish coin design from David to Mary Scottish coinage began during the Anarchy and Stephen’s reign (1135-1154). After the death of Henry I in 1135, Stephen of Blois, despite an oath to Matilda, Henry I’s daughter, seized the English ...

  5. Welcome to Auction 43

    T he first high quality, substantially pedigreed collection of Scottish coins to come to the market since the LaRiviere sale in 2006 begins in this, our major annual sale of some of the best coins we have come across in the past year. A beautiful and ...

  6. Welcome to E-Auction 48

    O ur first print catalog published the summer of 1973 included an opening note. Since then, I think the record is pretty much unbroken—opening comments, about the catalog or related issues. In a print catalog, each bit of space represents some real estate ...

  7. Welcome to E-Auction 47

    “E nding” is a key aspect of this summer’s end catalog. Over the past few auctions we have offered two major collections, a handful of smaller consignments, and have been dispersing a large collection of United States coins. Now we are at the end point ...

  8. Welcome to E-Auction 46

    M ost collections have “odds-and-ends” that have been acquired along the way—early acquisitions, impulse buys, exploring different collecting directions. One of the great appeals of coin collecting is the almost limitless variety that is available. There ...

  9. Welcome to Auction 42

    T he fifty-five Anglo-Saxon lots in this sale represent a major offering in this series, and are the heart of the collection formed by Patrick Zabel, a committed and scholarly collector who was active in the latter part of the 20th century. That was a ...

  10. Welcome to E-Auction 45

      T his catalog is very much a story of consignors. Seven different collectors are represented in this sale, and their efforts and taste are an important part of what this catalog represents. We write the descriptions, the grading and the estimates, but ...

  11. Coinage of the Roman Senate under the Ostrogoths

    101.jpg T he Roman Senate issued this bronze follis long after the Rome that ruled so much of the known world had disappeared, sometime in the AD 512-522 period, during the reign of Anastasius in the East. The coin with its image of Roma on the obverse ...

  12. Welcome to E-Auction 44

    Exchange, making change, storing value—if one wants a simple definition of what coins are for, this comes close. In ancient times gold was highly valued and sought after and was an important metal for trade. But trading with gold was a complex process. ...

  13. Welcome to E-Auction 43

    Pricing coins fairly so that the values accurately reflect fair values is an important and demanding part of preparing each catalog. We could open everything at zero, the way most US coins are auctioned. But there are daily price guides for US coins and ...

  14. Welcome to Auction 41

      O ur annual major sale marks the final result of a year of planning, selecting, acquiring, and soliciting material from this fascinating realm of numismatics. It all comes to a conclusion just as one calendar year ends and another begins. Many of the ...

  15. Welcome to E-Auction 42

    ‘Twas a dark and stormy time….”  We received an unusual consignment for this sale—a group of United States coins minted in 1853. All the gold issues (the first $3 gold piece was issued in 1854), and a choice large cent. I became fascinated by what must ...

  16. Welcome to E-Auction 41

    C ontretemps—an unusual word that I have never found a use for in opening notes for a coin/medal catalog, until now. Usually anything that merits minting metal is of some significance. The protests of some disgruntled theater fans over two centuries ago ...

  17. Welcome to E-Auction 40

    C oins can take us to many different places—some unusual, some historic, some long-gone. This summer catalog has several numismatic vistas we have not offered any, or at least much of, before. The California Pioneer Fractional Gold coinage came about for ...

  18. Welcome to E-Auction 39

    H ere is the latest in our ongoing series of E-Auctions that began with the arrival of Lief and his digital skills in 2012. We designed the print versions to be less expensive to produce and sized to qualify for the least expensive First Class Mail ...

  19. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS – An “Ambitious” Irregular Ryal

    It was an ill-advised marriage—Mary Stuart and Henry Lord Darnley. As the son of Margaret Douglas, granddaughter of Henry VII, Darnley was in the line of succession for the English throne, as was Mary Stuart whose grandmother was a sister of Henry VIII. ...

  20. Welcome to Auction 40

    O ur personal introduction to our catalogs usually launches right into talk about what you can find in these pages. I want to start somewhere else this time—discussing a few of the past owners of these pieces who deserve our thanks for the care they gave ...

  21. Welcome to E-Auction 38

    Something old, something new… J anuary is a time to revisit a few things from past auctions that failed to find homes. We have examined them closely and repriced most of them. Look for some worthwhile ancient coins. And I confess to sometimes reaching for ...

  22. Welcome to E-Auction 37

    I t all started with cattle. If you wanted to barter, you could just herd your payment over for the trade. Oxen were the standard for barter before the Greeks found that refining and minting precious metals at standardized weights and fineness was a much ...

  23. Welcome to E-Auction 36

    I n a time when coin shows have disappeared it seems just right to offer a collection that was formed from coins bought at coin shows by a very serious collector. Freeman Craig Sr. was an Army Air Force navigator who flew 50 missions from North Africa ...

  24. Welcome to E-Auction 35

    T he value of numismatic gold is based on two separate markets—the bullion market and the numismatic market. Other than for common silver coinage—typically of very little numismatic interest—this is the one area where price is determined from two ...

  25. Welcome to Auction 39

    O ur 39th major auction is a long way from our first such sale in April of 1993. We began by noting “We have been publishing fixed price catalogs…for well over two decades. We are excited about assembling and publishing our first major bid sale.” Well, we ...

  26. Welcome to E-Auction 34

    W elcome to another decade! Marnie and I have been reminiscing…. The last ten years have seen momentous changes in our lives, as we welcome grandchildren, and as we continue to experience the remarkable remaking of our business by our son and partner Lief ...

  27. Welcome to E-Auction 33

    In 2002 we sold a collection of 229 Greek electrotypes for $12,500. A few years ago we were asked by a serious collector who remembered that lot if it might be for sale if he offered twice the amount it realized in 2002. The current owner said no. This ...

  28. The Only Silver Coin Issue for Nearly Half of the British 18th Century

    The “Northumberland” shilling is more a story of the energetic and influential Hugh Percy, an important figure in the court of George II, than it is of a lone silver coin issued in limited numbers—3000 or fewer—in the midst of a period of nearly a half ...

  29. Welcome to E-Auction 32

    Watching numismatic auctions while sitting at my desk allows me to get a feel for the coin market that used to require days of travel and substantial expense. While I cannot view the lots themselves and thus can readily miss the subtle characteristics ...

  30. Welcome to E-Auction 31

    The Birth of the Gothic Florin. Victoria had a long reign, a concluding article in a year-long series on England’s silver coinage in the 1924 Spink Numismatic Circular notes. Thus, while “there were a considerable number of designs for the coinage, ...

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