Estimated Price: 15,000€Tyrol. Maximilian I. Guldiner n.d. (1508), Hall. Kaiserguldiner
(emperor guldiner) Very rare. Extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-42515
Estimated Price: 15,000€Ferdinand Charles. 3 ducats, 1642, Hall. Extremely rare,
probably the only specimen in private possession.
Extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-425117
Estimated Price:35,000€Münster / Bishopric. Ferdinand of Bavaria. 5 ducats, 1638,
Münster. Extremely rare. About extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-425510
Estimated Price: 25,000€Peace of Westphalia. 1748 gold medal of 8 ducats, by P. P.
Werner, Nuremberg, commemorating the 100th anniversary
of the Peace of Westphalia. Extremely rare. About FDC.
Summer Auction Sales 423-425560
Estimated Price: 8,000€Fugger – Babenhausen – Wellenburg. Maximilian II. 1622
ducat. Very rare. Extremely fine to FDC.
Summer Auction Sales 423-425575
Estimated Price: 150,000€Belgium. Emperor Francis I. 10 souverains d’or, 1751, Antwerp.
Very rare. About FDC. MS 63.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4251007
Estimated Price: 25,000€Holstein – Schauenburg. Justus Hermann. 4 ducats, 1624. 2nd
known specimen. Very fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4251572
Estimated Price: 50,000€Italy / Milan. Francesco II Sforza, 1521-1535. Silver medal n.d.
(later issue, probably from the 18th century).
Very fine. About extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4251696
Estimated Price: 25,000€Austrian princes / Kremnica. Silver medallion with a weight of
10 talers, 1738, by S. Roth. Very rare. Very fine +.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4252004
Estimated Price: 50,000€German New Guinea. 20 New Guinean marks, 1895.
Only 1,500 specimens minted. Extremely fine to FDC.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4252580
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Kolbe & Fanning – Important Numismatic Books Sale 172

Kolbe & Fanning
Sale 172
Literature
25 January 2025
Online

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers holds their next auction sale on Saturday, January 25, 2025. The sale includes rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics, including the first half of the L.D. & I.P. Library. With over 500 lots, there is something for everybody.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

Lot 38.

Lot 38.

  • Lot 38: a 1590 edition of Camden’s Britannia, in a contemporary armorial binding featuring the arms of Jacques Auguste de Thou & Marie de Barbançon-Cany. Estimate: $1,800.
  • Lot 110: a set of Giuseppe Mazzini’s Monete imperiali romane, with 531 fine plates illustrating an incredible 8051 coins, tesserae and contorniates. Estimate: $1,800.
  • Lot 128: a nearly complete run of Rodolfo Ratto’s very rare early (1894–1911) fixed price lists, a much more difficult series to collect than his later emissions. Estimate: $1,500.
Lot 210.

Lot 210.

  • Lot 210: Giuseppe Sangiorgi’s excellent plated catalogue of the Prospero Sarti collection of Roman coins, entirely priced and mostly named. Estimate: $900.
  • Lot 289: José Toribio Medina’s scarce and important 1919 work on the obsidional coins of Spanish America, in a contemporary binding. Estimate: $750.
  • Lot 362: a fine presentation copy of Thomas Sharp’s 1834 catalogue of the Chetwynd collection of provincial copper coins, a legendary rarity. Estimate: $3,000.
  • Lot 372: an extensive set of The Numismatist, an unparalleled, comprehensive chronicle of coin collecting in America. Estimate: $1,500.
Lot 398.

Lot 398.

  • Lot 398: a very rare plated copy of the Chapman Brothers’ 1905 catalogue of the Charles Morris collection, from the Armand Champa Library. Estimate: $5,000.
  • Lot 400: Henry Chapman’s massive 1921 catalogue of the John Story Jenks collection, with 42 superb photographic plates. Estimate: $1,500.
Lot 484.

Lot 484.

  • Lot 484: Wayte Raymond’s rare 1925 W.W.C. Wilson catalogue featuring 45 exceptional photographic plates, definitive for early American and Canadian material. Estimate: $5,000.