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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 38, September 16, 2001, Article 5 AUCTIONS RESCHEDULED On Wednesday the 12th, Vicken Yegparian of Stack's (57th Street) wrote on the Colonial Coins mailing list: "--everyone, including family, is fine, but necessarily a bit shaken up. We did postpone our Auction Sale scheduled for yesterday and today, and the new dates are November 12 and 13. As for Sotheby's--they are located even further away from the disaster than we are, so they were not directly affected. I did hear that they closed down yesterday and that they might not have been open today." Coin World Online (http://www.coinworld.com/) reported that Bowers and Merena Galleries announced they postponed their September 14-15 public auction scheduled for New York City. As of today, no new date has been announced. These rescheduled auctions will take their place in numismatic history alongside the J.N.T. Levick sale by Edward Cogan. Originally scheduled for April 27-29, 1865, the sale was postponed due to the assassination of President Lincoln on April 14th, 1865. Lincoln was shot while attending a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The following information about the sale was published in the December 26, 1999 issue of The E-Sylum (v2#52): "E. J Attinelli, in his 1876 work "Numisgraphics", had this to say about the sale: "... it was thought advisable to postpone, in consequence of the excited state of the entire people, consequent upon the assassination of President Lincoln by Junius B. Booth, who had escaped, but was subsequently captured mortally wounded." [NOTE: Attinelli confused the facts here - Junius B. Booth, also an actor, was the FATHER of John Wilkes Booth, the Lincoln assassin.] "The catalogue was printed and issued in several ways, with and without the part in which was the catalogue-portion of Mr. Levick's collection, also each separately; also, 12 copies of each printed on large paper. Mr. Levick, in consequence of the state of affairs, issued but few copies with the cover bearing the preceding date, the greater portion of the edition was stripped of its covers and replaced with a new one, bearing the following date, when the sale took place." Attinelli lists the sale as having taken place May 29th." [Will any of the September 2001 catalogs be reissued or amended? Most are already in the hands of bidders. Will sale-day copies be overprinted or updated with an addendum? -Editor]

Wayne Homren, Editor

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