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Cogan’s Cauffman Sale with Plates

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 USD
Cogan’s Cauffman Sale with Plates
A buyer’s premium of 18% will be added to the cost of all lots purchased by absentee bidders. The premium is reduced to 15% for floor bidders. See shipping info and full terms.
Cogan, Edward. CATALOGUE OF A CHOICE AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN, ENGLISH & ANCIENT GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER COINS AND MEDALS, THE PROPERTY OF EMIL CAUFFMAN, ESQ., OF PHILADELPHIA. New York, May 3-4, 1871. (4), 40 pages; 903 lots; 2 fine photographic plates of coins. Neatly priced in red ink. Original prices realized list also bound in. [with] Cogan’s sales of Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1876 (Henry S. Adams, partly priced) and Dec. 16-18, 1878 (James E. Root, priced), and S.K. Harzfeld’s 15th sale (Nov. 26-27, 1880, priced). Four catalogues bound in one volume. 8vo, later red buckram, gilt; original printed wraps bound in. A bit sunned, with “1871” written on spine; else fine. The Cauffman sale is only the fourth plated U.S. numismatic auction catalogue. Adams 28, rated B overall (rated A for British coins): “1854-66 proof sets, other early proof singles. MS 1811 1¢. MS 1795, 1797 1/2¢.” One of the plates depicts choice early large cents and half cents; the other depicts British coins and a few rare American silver coins. Scarce, particularly with the original printed prices realized list.