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The Sterling Groves Sale, with Plates

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:600.00 USD Estimated At:900.00 USD
The Sterling Groves Sale, with 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.
Chapman, S.H. CATALOG OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT, FOREIGN AND UNITED STATES COINS OF MR. STERLING P. GROVES OF CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING VERY RARE FOREIGN THALERS AND THE EXCESSIVELY RARE NEW YORK CENT NEO EBORACUS AND NEW JERSEY IMMUNIS COLUMBIA AND A SUPERB QUARTETTE OF CALIFORNIA $50S. AND A LARGE LIST OF NAPOLEON MEDALS. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Son & Co., Jan. 31, 1912. 8vo, original white cloth and boards, gilt. 48 pages; 627 + 12 lots; 3 fine photographic plates. Fine. A major sale of California pioneer gold coins, American colonials and important European silver coins, a plate of which is devoted to each. A noted Cleveland, Ohio collector, Groves decided to sell his collection upon relocating to California. His gold slugs were a highlight of the sale (both sides of four of them are depicted). Adams 9: “Napoleonic medals. NE 12¢. MS ‘Liber Natus.’ MS NJ. Immune Columbia. $50 (4). 1873-CC 10¢, arrows.” Davis 220.