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Heavily Annotated Notebook on U.S. Patterns

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Heavily Annotated Notebook on U.S. Patterns
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Davis, Robert Coulton, and Harry Rogers. PATTERN AND EXPERIMENTAL PIECES OF THE UNITED STATES MINT. BY ROBERT COULTON DAVIS PH.G. WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS BY HARRY ROGERS. Ink manuscript title, dated 1889. The complete series of articles entitled "Pattern and Experimental Issues of the United States Mint," extracted from the Coin Collector's Journal, New York: J.W. Scott & Co., June 1885-January 1887. Bound in one volume. Small 4to [27.5 by 20.5 cm], contemporary brown cloth-backed marbled paper card covers. 97-102; 113-118; 129-136; 145-152; 161-166; 177-182; 11-14; 39-44; 55-58; 71-76; 87-90; 101-104; 117-120; 5-10 pages (a number of final or initial pages, or portions thereof, are devoted to other topics); 477 listings plus addenda, lithographic illustrations of patterns; interleaved throughout with ruled paper; heavily annotated in red and black ink and in pencil. Covers somewhat worn but sound; top outer margin of one leaf torn out, affecting a few letters of two words of text. Very good or better. A most interesting volume, featuring a manuscript record of an extensive early collection of United States pattern coins, along with a wealth of data on specimens unknown to R.C. Davis, and accompanied by corrections, other additions, and brief notes. [online description truncated: see PDF or printed catalogue for full description]