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Cogan's Cauffman Sale with Plates, with Other Sales

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 USD
Cogan's Cauffman Sale with Plates, with Other Sales
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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 blue ink. Also bound in are four additional Cogan auction catalogues, dated: February 27-March 3, 1872; October 5-6, 1871; April 3-5, 1871; and June 1-2, 1871. All sales handpriced or with loosely laid in printed prices realized lists. 8vo, contemporary black half morocco. Covers detached, spine defective; internally 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. Other notable sales present here include "Montreal" and Ex-Governor Packer. Two of them (June and October 1871) feature the original printed prices realized lists, which are at least as rare as the catalogues themselves. Ex John J. Ford, Jr. library (Kolbe Sale 96, lot 1048).