The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 44, November 3, 2002, Article 10

W. F. GREANY INFORMATION SOUGHT

  Dave Hirt writes: "At the PAN show in Pittsburgh I purchased
  a fixed price list issued by W.F. Greany in San Francisco,
  dated 1888.   Do any of our readers have more information
  about Greany?   I know that he was an advertiser in The
  Numismatist in the 1890's."

  [Remy Bourne's "Fixed Price Lists & Prices Paid For Lists
  of United States Coin Dealers 1850-1900 Volume I
  Addendum" lists three publications by Greany: a 24-page
  3rd Edition (1884?), a 4-page "Supplement to Catalogue"
  (1887?) and a 48-page 5th Edition [no date listed].  The
  3rd edition is illustrated in the book and it lists Greany's
  address as 827 Brannan Street, San Francisco.

  A web search found one coin with a provenance to Greany:
  an 1872-S half dime (lot 2104 in the Goldbergs' June 2002
  Long beach sale): "From Bowers and Merena's Louis
  Eliasberg Sale, May 1996, lot 1033; earlier from W. F.
  Greany, February 1905 to the J.M. Clapp collection until
 1942, then to the Eliasberg collection."
  http://www.goldbergcoins.net/catalogarchive/20020602/chap053.shtml
  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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