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  1. Welcome to E-Auction 30

    A smattering of interesting gold coinage opens our sale. Most have served their original marketplace purpose, and now they have become an affordable collectible. A bit of ancient and medieval, a bit of British and world, and several more US gold type ...

  2. Welcome to E-Auction 29

    You will find variety in our spring sale. Opening bids from $16 to $5000. Gold coinage, interesting and affordable classics, including early Greek electrum, an early Islamic trade coin, an affordable Nero aureus, a pretty Byzantine scyphate, a choice ...

  3. Welcome to Auction 38

    Old collections, old memories of the coins we sold many years ago, and of collectors, fellow enthusiasts sharing the wonder of numismatics… A large portion of this catalog has come from collectors we have known, some repositioning their focus; others ...

  4. Welcome to E-Auction 28

    This is our fifth E-Auction for 2018. With well over 900 lots offered in E-Auctions and 390 lots in our major February sale, a small company that publishes just over 1300 lots in a year sounds a bit modest—this in an era where large auctions with ...

  5. Elizabeth I Shillings

    Shillings were a Tudor innovation that began with the coinage reform under Edward VI. The reign of Elizabeth saw the denomination expand in scope and complexity to meet the ongoing challenges of coinage for local economies and expanding international ...

  6. Welcome to E-Auction 27

    Many American coin collectors began as youngsters assembling date sets. They soon recognized that 20th Century US coins had some fascinating varieties—the three-legged buffalo was one, and the piece offered here is the first I have ever had. Even though ...

  7. Welcome to E-Auction 26

    By the time this sale closes the mid-August ANA Convention will be over. Lief and Allan will be there for a couple of days. Mid-August would have been the logical time for this sale to close but the additional couple of weeks allows you a bit more time to ...

  8. Welcome to E-Auction 25

    Tiny coins, large coins, and a fair number in between.… Coins come in a wide range of sizes. When you limit yourself to coins made to circulate, you narrow the range a bit. This catalog covers a wide range, from tiny Greek fractionals to what became an ...

  9. Welcome to E-Auction 24

    What is it about gold? The stability of the metal? Its beauty, particularly since designers have almost always given their best attention to their work with it? Its relationship to an economy generally, whether it was ancient gold, medieval, Renaissance ...

  10. Aftersale: A Second Chance

    It all comes together in a few hours on one day—the months of acquisition, cataloging, preparing, printing, watching, answering queries—and then it is all over. Few processes in business (and perhaps in life) provide such finality. My day started early as ...

  11. The Confederate Catholic Rebel Crown

    Lot 279 Plain, crude, uneven strike, rugged—why its appeal? What is its story? Of the five siege crowns issued in Ireland during the English Civil War, this piece is remarkable because of its religious connection. The 2006 sale of Lucien LaRiviere’s ...

  12. Welcome to Auction 37

      Quality, Variety, Value   A year of planning, searching, and preparing have gone into this catalog. For this once-a-year sale we search out the most interesting, important, exciting things we can find to offer you. This is a “collector’s sale.” We ...

  13. Tournai

    (Lots 142-144) Tournai, one of Belgium’s oldest cities, sits about fifty miles southwest of Brussels, its history reflecting the forces that flowed back and forth across Europe for centuries. For a while, it was claimed by Henry VIII.  England captured it ...

  14. The Ormonde Siege Coinage of 1643-1644

    Royalist issue in Ireland during The Great Rebellion (Lots 263-278) Why so many varieties and next to no efforts to classify the types? I have been puzzling over this ever since we began working with Bruce Ormond’s collection.  You can see the result ...

  15. Voce Populi Copper Halfpenny Tokens

    A fascinating and enigmatic copper issue from the mid-1700s in Ireland (and Colonial America?) (Lots 291-303) Voce Populi coppers have appeared in several references on Colonial American coinage: The Official Redbook, A Guidebook of United States Coins ...

  16. The History of a Die

    (Lots 360-361) The story of the late 18th century copper tokens and coinage is as much a story of historic changes in minting technology as it is of the new coinage coming from Boulton and Birmingham and the extensive issue of tokens that inspired James ...

  17. Welcome to E-Auction 23!

    The reign of William III was particularly interesting numismatically. I wrote a short article on the complexities of coinage and the end of hammered coins. You can see it online or I will be happy to send a copy. Either way, a major feature of this ...

  18. William III, Isaac Newton, and the End of Hammered Coinage

    Why so many mints issuing coinage during the reign of William III?  The answer to this question begins with events of a few years earlier. The “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 saw an end to the conflicted reign of James II. Little more than a month after ...

  19. Welcome to E-Auction 22!

    I am never certain when we begin assembling a catalog how it will all end up. We look for some thematic elements—Roman Britain, high grade milled British, a strong run of collectible and attractive United States type coins—these are areas that immediately ...

  20. A SMALL CHANGE CRISIS: Copper Coinage in early 18th Century England

    There are two histories of British coinage. One reflects the need for high value issues of silver and gold for the preservation of wealth and foreign exchange. The other was the need among poorer citizens for small change for day-to-day transactions. ...

  21. Welcome to E-Auction 21!

    Another interesting mix of material – ancients, British, world – and mixed throughout, our 2017 version of a Summer Bargain list. We include over 50 lots to complete Frank Robinson’s halfpenny collection. The economies of preparation and printing make sub ...

  22. Welcome to E-Auction 20!

    An interesting mix of things to consider: a few gold pieces including some appealing American currency, ancients with an appeal and interesting history that reflect our belief that “it doesn’t have to be expensive to be appealing,” do note the nicer Greek ...

  23. Welcome to E-Auction 19!

    We try to find interesting things for our sales, unusual but fascinating byways of numismatics and this catalog has its share of items you don’t ordinarily see. The ancient section may at first seem to be just another list but the surprise here is the low ...

  24. Henry VII: “Tentative Issue” groat

    Auction 36, Lot 142 “Groats of the latter period of his reign provide us with what are possibly the most beautiful example of the moneyer’s art to be found in the coinage of our country.” Raymond Carlyon-Britton made this observation in an article ...

  25. Auction 36 Opening Thoughts (written at the end of catalog production)

    There are some amazing coins in this catalog, the kinds of coins that lovers of this material sell last or only when their entire collection is let go. Fine Greek art is on display, from the magnificent Lockett Collection Siculo-Punic tetradrachm with its ...

  26. A Beginning And a Finishing Up

    Welcome to E-Auction 18! The photos on the back cover of the print version of the catalog introduce a major collection of English copper, tin and bronze coins formed by someone I have known since the 1970s, Frank Robinson. I knew he was an attorney and ...

  27. Welcome to E-Auction 17!

    Serious collections built over a long time include many unusual things in addition to the main concentration. Sometimes there are infrequently seen items like the three inexpensive Henry VI episcopal pennies (lots 75 to 77). The manuscript hinting at a ...

  28. Welcome to E-Auction 16!

    Welcome to E-Auction 16! Our largest E-Auction to date, this sale includes a broad selection of ancient Greek and Roman, British hammered and milled, tokens, and much more. In the ancient section we have a scarce electrum hemihekte (lot 1), an Athenian ...

  29. Welcome to E-Auction 15!

    This auction features an interesting and varied ancient section-- from a lovely hemidrachm portraying Cleopatra VII as Aphrodite (lot 9), to a small and interesting group of Roman Egypt coins, including a particularly choice and scarce Augustus 40 drachms ...

  30. OF FARTHINGS AND FOUL-UPS-- focus on farthings and mint errors

    Welcome to E-Auction 14! This no buyer's fee sale contains 108 choice lots of coins, tokens, medals, and books; closing March 30th, 2016. Our ancient section is small but significant. The highlight is the rare and beautiful stater of Lokris Opuntii ...

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