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LEATHERBOUND WHARTON SALE

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 USD
LEATHERBOUND WHARTON SALE
A buyer’s premium of 17.5% will be added to the cost of all lots purchased. See shipping info and full terms.
Stack’s. CATALOGUE OF THE E.M. WHARTON AND OTHERS COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COINS. New York, Oct. 22–27, 1945. 8vo, original brown quarter calf, gilt. 124, (4) pages; 2769 lots; portrait; text illustrations; prices realized list. Slight wear to spine; near fine. The Deluxe Leatherbound Edition. Quite scarce. Adams 77: “Strong encased. Immune Columbia halfp. XF 1804 1¢. 1836 $1, AE. English gold. MS 1797 $5 (2). 1832 $5. Gem T. Reid $2.50. 1849 Mormon $20. $50 gold (5).” A notable sale featuring fifty lots of encased postage, pioneer gold coins, rare United States gold and other coins. Following the 1945 Flanagan, Bell and Hall auctions, the Wharton catalogue capped the firm’s most successful year, with proceeds from the four sales totaling $366,968.50. At the end of the prices realized list, the Stacks proclaim: “We believe that never in the history of American Numismatic records have there been sales of such magnitude conducted by any one dealer in the United States in so short a time.”