Estimated Price: 15,000€Duchy of Tyrol. Archduke Sigismund, the Coinrich, 1446-1496.
Dicktaler from the dies of the 1/2 guilder 1484, Hall.
Extremely rare. Fine patina, very fine +.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4256
Estimated Price: 7,500€Holy Roman Empire. Archduke Leopold V, 1619-1632.
Reichstaler n. d. (posthumous struck from 1635), Hall.
Extremely rare. Attractive piece. Extremely fine-uncirculated.
Summer Auction Sales 423-425111
Estimated Price: 25,000€Holy Roman Empire. Archduke Ferdinand Karl, 1632-1662.
5 Ducats n. d. (1646), Hall. Very rare, especially in this condition.
Attractive piece. Magnificent patina, incised value number V,
extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-425122
Estimated Price: 20,000€German States. Bishopric of Münster. Ferdinand von Bayern,
1612-1650. 5 Ducats n. d., Münster. Extremely rare.
Extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-425519
Estimated Price: 10,000€German States. Münster. Gold medal in the weight of 10 Ducats
1648, by E. Ketteler, Very rare. Attractive piece with fine golden
patina. Tiny scratches, min. bent, very fine-extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-425556
Estimated Price: 75,000€Belgium, Hainaut (Hennegau). Wilhelm IV von Bayern,
1404-1417. Angel d‘or (Thuyne d‘or) n. d., Valenciennes.
Extremely rare. Attractive piece, very fine-extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4251009
Estimated Price: 40,000€Holy Roman Empire. Ferdinand III, 1625-1637-1657.
10 Ducats 1644, Graz. Struck with the dies of the Reichstaler.
Extremely rare. Very attractive piece with fine golden toning.
Min. tooling marks at the edge, tiny scratches, extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4251393
Estimated Price: 4,000€Belgium. The spanish Netherlands. Leopold Wilhelm,
Archduke of Austria, 1647-1656. Wearable silver cast medal
n. d., by A. Waterloos,Extremely rare. Sharp original cast.
Nice patina, extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4251602
Estimated Price: 15,000€Netherlands, Groningen. Engraved silver medal 1672, unsigned,
by Jan de Fries, Extremely rare. Magnificent,
finely chiseled work, extremely fine.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4251735
Estimated Price: 15,000€Republic of China. 1 Dollar year 18 (1929). Sun Yat-Sen.
Pattern in silver, made in the USA. PCGS SP 63. Min. scratches,
extremely fine-uncirculated.
Summer Auction Sales 423-4251813
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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.