The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 49, December 2, 2007, Article 25

INTERESTING DECEMBER 2007 COIN GALLERIES LOTS

[The December 2007 Stack's Coin Galleries Mail & Internet
Bid Sale closing Tuesday, December 18, 2007 has some
interesting and attractive lots of coins and medals.  Here
are a few that I noticed in the catalog.  -Editor]

Lot 1478: Silver Dollar, 1795 B-2, BB-20. Rarity-3. Flowing
Hair, Two Leaves. Fine-12.

The obverse has fancy script graffiti "H. H. Warner" in
the right field, "Rochester, N.Y." in the left. A quick
search on Google finds that an H. H. Warner was a major
historical figure in the Rochester, New York area in the
1880s, and built a fine mansion. This coin is a classic
deep gunmetal-blue with lighter gray on the devices. The
reverse is clean and attractive. For many years such coins
were priced at a discount, but with the power of internet
research many of the original owners can be determined
with relative ease and bring to life historical aspects.
Although we can't be certain, the present coin was probably
obtained many years after it was coined, and H. H. Warner
kept it as a pocket piece, having it finely engraved at a
local jeweler—perhaps it was his father's and handed down
through the family. An intriguing example of Americana.

[Be sure to view the larger images of the following
medals. -Editor]

Lot 2154: FRANCE. Orpheus Medal, ca. 1899.
67.6mm. By Marie Lucien Alexandre Coudray. Obv.
Laurel-crowned Orpheus holding lyre.
Full Story

Lot 2330: VATICAN-PAPAL STATES. Pius IX, 1846-1878.
Saint Peter's Basilica Interior Medal, 1854.
Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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