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The O’Hagan Sale of American Coins

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:40.00 USD Estimated At:60.00 USD
The O’Hagan Sale of American Coins
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Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. THE O’HAGAN COIN COLLECTION. CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE AND EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF EUROPEAN, AMERICAN & OTHER FOREIGN COINS, MEDALS, TOKENS &C. AND THE SERIES OF ENGLISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. London, April 27-May 1, 1908. 8vo, original printed wraps. 87 pages; 926 lots; 5 fine plates. Hand-priced in pencil with buyers’ names. Spine perished, nearly disbound; good or better. Important, with this catalogue including O’Hagan’s American coins. At a time when Montagu’s 1630 Briot Pattern Broad brought £17.10, a Syracusan dekadrachm from the Ashburnham collection sold for £23, and Montagu’s aureus of Marc Anthony realized £34, London saleroom habitués must truly have been shocked to see an American coin get knocked down for £435! Lots 760-785 in this installment of the O’Hagan sale featured a “Washington Cent, 1793, struck in gold,” 1849 and 1851 octagonal Humbert gold slugs and, most notably, an 1849 Cincinnati Mining and Trading Co. $10, finely illustrated on one of the plates and one of “only two specimens being known, according to Mr. C.H. Shinkle’s list.” Rather amusingly, the main heading describes the denomination as “Two-Dollars,” though the coin’s reverse legend is correctly cited as TEN DOLLARS. Manville & Robertson 212-214.