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Anderson-Dupont I & II

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:90.00 USD Estimated At:125.00 USD
Anderson-Dupont I & II
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Stack's. ANDERSON DUPONT CATALOGUE. PART I: U.S. LARGE CENTS, 1793 TO 1857. PART II: UNITED STATES SILVER AND COPPER COINS. New York, Sept. 24-25, 1954 and Nov. 11-13, 1954. 8vo, later maroon cloth, gilt; original printed front card covers bound in. 92, (2) + 118, (2) pages; 2722 lots; text illustrations; plate supplement bound in; both prices realized lists bound in. Fine. Adams A (both sales). A most important collection whose origins are still not fully known. The large cents were catalogued by Dr. Sheldon. According to interviews and research conducted by P. Scott Rubin, Charles J. Dupont was a coin collector/part-time dealer who, with the help of his next door neighbor Charles Anderson, posing as a philatelic expert, acquired the coins and a philatelic collection from an unknown Eastern institution. Important segments of the collection, mostly gold coins, were sold privately through Stack's, some ending up in the Lilly collection now at the Smithsonian Institution. Dupont was publisher of the New England Numismatic Association's NENA News at the time and this position may have facilitated his acquisition of the collection.