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Plated Ely Sale, Partly Named

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 USD
Plated Ely Sale, Partly Named
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.
Woodward, W. Elliot. SALE 62. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. CATALOGUE OF HON. HEMAN ELY'S NUMISMATIC COLLECTION IN GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, &C. New York, Jan. 8-10, 1884. 8vo, original printed wraps. iv, (3)-98 pages; 1872 lots; 3 fine heliotype plates of rare American coins and medals. Annotated in pencil, with more than a third of the sale priced, and many buyers' names recorded, along with other annotations about the coins themselves. Front wrap repaired with archival tape; stained at gutter; very good or better. Adams A+: "Copper 1794 $1. Original 1827 25¢. Complete 1/2¢. Fantastic gold with complete proof sets. Revolutionary medals. MS Clinton 1¢." The first plate depicts rare American silver coins and early medals; plate two illustrates Massachusetts silver, early medals, American silver and gold, etc.; and the final plate depicts colonials, large cents and half cents, etc. Ex Dennis Mendelson library (Kolbe Sale 52, lot 193).