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Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc.: Treasures of the World Including Part I of the Jay Roe Collection

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Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc.: Treasures of the World Including Part I of the Jay Roe Collection
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Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc. TREASURES OF THE WORLD INCLUDING PART I OF THE JAY ROE COLLECTION. June 5-6, 2002. 1-1591 Lots. 4to. This catalog presents numismatic material from Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire, Latin America, and other Foreign countries with a major section dedicated to An Historic Offering of Tumbaga Bars from the Era of Cortes and the Mexican Conquest and throughout with choice world coinage from the Jay Roe Collection; The section dedicated to the Mexican Conquest contains 17 lots of Tumbaga bars with a description of their historical significance, three 1732 pillar dollars, and a Mexico 8 reales 'royal'. It also includes 74 lots of cobs and portrait coins from the Lucayan Beach Wreck ('Nuestra Senora de los Remedios'), 'Atocha', 1715 Fleet, 1733 Fleet (including three 1732 pillar dollars), the 'Princess Louisa', the 'Reygersdahl', the 'Nuestra Senora de la Luz', the 'Dodington', the 'Auguste', the 'Athenienne', the 'Lady Burgess', the 'San Pedro de Alcantara', and the 'Elingamite', all with brief descriptions of the shipwrecks; 5 color plates, b&w plated throughout, Gengerke [69]. Lot weight: 1 lbs 4oz. Subject(s): United States, Colonial Spain, Ancients, World coins.