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The Murdoch Sales

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:550.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 USD
The Murdoch Sales
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Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS, THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE JOHN G. MURDOCH, ESQ. THE SERIES OF ANCIENT BRITISH, ANGLO-SAXON, ENGLISH AND IRISH COINS AND TOKENS. FIRST, SECOND & FOURTH PORTIONS. / THE SERIES OF SCOTTISH AND ANGLO-GALLIC COINS. / THE COINS AND TOKENS OF THE BRITISH COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES, AMERICA AND THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT. / THE SERIES OF ENGLISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, FROM HENRY VI TO GEORGE II. London, 1903-04. six of the eight catalogues issued, bound in one volume. Crown 4to, contemporary brown half calf, gilt; original printed wraps bound in. 626 pages; 4254 lots; superb frontispiece portrait of Murdoch; 48 very fine autotype plates of coins, medals and tokens. Lacking only Part III of the main British series and the second part of the medals sale (through Victoria). Binding worn and taped, with joints cracked. Very good or so. Six of the eight Murdoch sales, one of the most important collections of English coins and medals ever formed. Included among them is the July 21-30, 1903 catalogue, which comprises one of the most important foreign sales of rare American coins, featuring colonials, pioneer gold, United States coins in gold, silver, and copper, patterns, Canadian coins and tokens, etc. Clain-Stefanelli 6145*, 6146, 11276 & 14708. Grierson 298: "Collection d'une importance exceptionelle." Manville & Robertson 1903: 18, 25, 43 & 1904: 11, 26 & 57 (pages 201-206).