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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Important Numismatic Literature at Kolbe & Fanning

Kolbe & Fanning
May 2025 Book Auction
Literature
31 May 2025
Online

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers announced that they will be holding their next auction sale on Saturday, May 31, 2025. The sale includes rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics, including the second half of the L.D. & I.P. Library and additional selections from the library of Barry Tayman. With 500 lots, there is something for everybody.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

Lot 52. Estimate: $600.

Lot 52. Estimate: $600.

  • Lot 52: a set of Calciati’s magnificent Pegasi, accompanied by original prints (signed and numbered) of art used in the book.
  • Lot 69: Raymond & Charles Dupriez’s own set of their catalogues, comprising some 118 catalogues bound in over twenty volumes, including many named sales and rarities.
  • Lot 111: the 1912 Hess catalogues of the Tolstoï and Prowe collections of Roman Republican coins, bound together in contemporary maroon half morocco.
Lot 169. Estimate: $600.

Lot 169. Estimate: $600.

  • Lot 169: André de Ritter’s folio catalogue of the engraved gems in the Louis De Clercq collection, one of a number of books on engraved gems offered from the Pierre Bastien library.
Lot 242. Estimate: $500.

Lot 242. Estimate: $500.

  • Lot 242: M. de Bettange’s significant 1760 work on coining, Traité des monoyes, as issued in two volumes and in a contemporary mottled calf binding.
  • Lot 273: a complete hardcover set of Jeffrey Hoare auction catalogues, 1986–2007, comprising seventy-three catalogues bound in twenty-two volumes.
  • Lot 312: the 1730 London edition of The Hibernian Patriot, being Jonathan Swift’s anonymously published Drapier’s Letters against the coinage of William Wood in Ireland.
  • Lot 359: a very rare plated copy of S.H. Chapman’s 1920 catalogue of the W.H. Hunter collection, one of only a small number of copies known with 9 superb photographic plates.
  • Lot 370: an original subscription set of Sylvester Crosby’s The Early Coins of America, as issued in separate fascicles and still in the original printed paper covers.
 Lot 395. Estimate: $10,000.

Lot 395. Estimate: $10,000.

  • Lot 395: Eric P. Newman and Burdette Johnson’s records of their acquisition and disposition of the Colonel E.H.R. Green collection, one of the most important archives in American numismatic history.