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W. Elliot Woodward’s Sale 2

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W. Elliot Woodward’s Sale 2
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(Woodward, W. Elliot). Leonard & Co. CATALOGUE OF AN EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN COINS, COMPRISING MANY VERY RARE SPECIMENS OF COLONIAL COINAGE, PATTERN PIECES, RARE DOLLARS, HALF DOLLARS, DIMES AND HALF DIMES, CENTS AND HALF CENTS, MAGNIFICENT SETS OF PROOFS IN GOLD AND SILVER, WASHINGTON PIECES--MANY OF EXTREME RARITY... Boston, Oct. 23-24, 1860. 8vo, original printed wraps. 36 pages; 1222 lots. Spine a little weak; some browning; very good or better. Woodward’s Sale 2, though his name does not appear on the catalogue. Very scarce. While much of the cataloguing is terse, there are signs here and there of incipient greatness. Adams 2: “MS 1821 10¢. Connecticut varieties. Colonial copies. 2 sets of 1/2¢ proofs. 1858, 1859 gold proof sets.” Attinelli 20: “Upward of 100 varieties of colonial pieces are separately described in this catalogue.” Very interesting.