The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 22, May 27, 2002, Article 9

ONE-COIN CATALOGUES

  P. Scott Rubin writes: "Could you let me know who had a
  single catalogue for the King of Siam Set?"
  [Your Editor was thinking of the October 1987 Bowers
  King of Siam sale, but having only now checked the
  catalog, I see that item was NOT the only lot in the sale.]

  Stephen Searle writes: "What about the Bowers and Merena
  catalog of Hawaiian Commemorative Half Dollars.
  One coin --but several hundred lots of it.  :)"
  [Great choice - I hadn't thought of that one!]

  P. Scott Rubin provided a another example that hadn't been
  mentioned before: "Sheridan Downey had a single lot auction
  of the Alfred E. Burke 1817/4 Half Dollar on April 1, 1997
  (and I do not think this was an April Fools joke)."

  Scott Seamens writes: "I don't have the details - it was perhaps
  ten years ago, and it was a Swiss auction firm.  The coin was
  India, Mughal Empire, Emp. Shah Jahan gold 200 Rupees.
  An illustration of a cast of this coin, said to be the largest gold
  coin ever minted, was carried in the Friedberg GOLD COINS
  OF THE WORLD book for many years.  Reportedly, the coin
  did not sell in this auction."

  Andy Lustig provided the details, noting that it was actually a
  two-coin auction.  "I found the following description of the
  catalog at:
  http://www.mindspring.com/~kroh/Empirecoins/Part2.html

  I remember the sale as being reasonably well promoted in the
  numismatic press. Unfortunately, the coins had big reserves
 and neither lot sold. I always wondered what happened to the
 coins. Can any E-Sylum reader tell us if the coins ever found
  a home, or if they were offered elsewhere at a later date?"

  208. (HABSBURG, FELDMAN S.A.): Sale of two Giant
  Gold Mohur Coins, the largest Gold Coins in the World.
  Auction at the Hotel Noga Hilton, Monday, November 9,
  1987 (rescheduled from Nov 8th). Remarkable catalog of
  a sale with only two lots: a 1000 mohur of Shah Jahangir,
  minted in Agra in 1613 (210 mm, 11,935.8 grams) and a
  100 mohur of Shah Jahan, minted in Lahore in 1639
  (95-97mm, 1094.5 grams). Each coin is illustrated actual-size
  and in spectacular full-color, with the legends of each
  painstakingly drawn and translated on facing pages. Each
  coin is painstakingly researched and described in 16 pages,
  including a two-page introduction by ANS curator Michael
  Bates. Card-covers, a most unusual catalog with separate
  special-invitation."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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