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McCoy, Brown, Ezekiel Sale with Superb Plates

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:1,500.00 USD Estimated At:2,250.00 USD
McCoy, Brown, Ezekiel Sale with Superb Plates
A buyer’s premium of 18% will be added to the cost of all lots purchased by absentee bidders. The premium is reduced to 15% for floor bidders. See shipping info and full terms.
Elder, Thomas L. CATALOGUE OF AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC SALE, INCLUDING THE NOTED RAMSEY MCCOY COLLECTION OF AMERICAN POLITICAL MEDALS AND TOKENS, THE FINEST COLLECTION OF ITS KIND EVER OFFERED FOR SALE. THE LARGE AND FINE COLLECTION OF U.S. CENTS AND HALF CENTS OF R.E. BROWN. THE H.C. EZEKIEL COLLECTION OF JEWISH COINS, MEDALS, TOKENS. INCLUDING THE LARGEST NUMBER OF THESE COINS AND MEDALS EVER OFFERED AT AUCTION SALE; AND MANY OTHER SMALLER COLLECTIONS OF IMPORTANCE, WITH MANY FINE GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER COINS, UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN MEDALS AND TOKENS OF ALL KINDS, INTERESTING CONTINENTAL PAPER MONEY, BROKEN BANK NOTES, ETC. A RARE BECHTLER QUARTER EAGLE OF GEORGIA GOLD, RARE HALF CENTS OF 1796, 1842 AND 1852, WONDERFUL JACKSON, HARRISON, VAN BUREN, CLAY AND LINCOLN COLLECTIONS, ETC., ETC., ABOUT 2800 LOTS, BEING THE LARGEST SALE WE HAVE HELD IN MANY YEARS. New York, Mar. 20-23, 1918. Small 4to, bound in tan half calf by Alan Grace; marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt; lighter tan spine label, gilt; original printed light brown card covers bound in; housed in matching slipcase. 125, (1) pages, blank leaf; 2704 lots; 8 superb photographic plates. Fine. Another beautiful copy of a rare plated Elder sale. Adams A: "Definitive for political tokens. Decent cents. Near complete half cent varieties. Extensive Jewish ancients. Gem 1804 half cent. Canadian communion tokens. Sheets of continental notes." Edgar Adams's magnificent photographic plates seem to almost have a three-dimensional quality. [online description truncated: see PDF or printed catalogue for full description]