The E-Sylum:  Volume 11, Number 12, March 23, 2008, Article 12

MARCH 2008 STACK'S COIN GALLERIES SALE

[The March 2008 Stack's Coin Galleries sale catalog features
a number of interesting items - here are a few.  The sale
includes the Naval Historical Foundation Collection of Admiral
Vernon medals from the collection of cataloguer Leander
McCormick-Goodheart (Stack's Numismatic Review, 1945) as well
as a great collection of U.S. inaugural medals.  -Editor]

LOT 4598: ADMIRAL VERNON MEDAL, DEVIL LEADS SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
 INTO HELL Admiral Vernon Medal. McCormick-Goodhart 18. Vernon,
 Brown, Devil and Sir Robert Medal, n.d.

 37.5mm. About Uncirculated. Obv. Crown above standing figures
 of Admiral Vernon and Commodore Brown clasping hands. Rev.
 Devil leads Sir Robert Walpole into hell, NO EXCISE. Splendid
 strike, wealth of bold detail.

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LOT 4789: HK 835. BICKFORD DOLLAR, 18.   THIS COMBINATION COIN
 WILL WHEN ADOPTED BW GOOD IN ALL NATIONS / HEAL ALL DIFFERENCES
 BETWEEN GOLD & SILVER MEN / AND FULLY SETTLE ALL FINANCIAL QUESTIONS
 / APPROVED BY ALL GOOD BUSINESS MEN; beaded border. Rv. Same
 center inscription; between outer circle and beaded border HERE
 IS SHOWN THE VALUE OF OUR DOLLAR IN THE COIN OF DIFFERENT NATIONS
 OF THE WORLD; between outer and inner circles, eight links contain
 Sterling 4.2 Francs 5.2 Kronen 3.8 Gulden 2.8 Marken 4.16 Guilder
 2.5 Rouble 9.65 Yen 1.1; between inner circle and center,
 INVENTED AND PROTECTED BY DANA BICKFORD. Very rare. Very Fine.

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LOT 4798: MEDALLIC HISTORY OF KING LOUIS XIV
 Académie Royale des Médailles et des Inscriptions. Médailles
 sur les Principaux Evénements do Regne de Louis le Grand avec
 des Explications Historiques.

 Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1702. Octavo, 292 numbered pages.
 Very Fine. Each medal in the Histoire metallique receives a
 page to itself, topped by an engraving of each reverse, the
 opposite side being blank. This is a sumptuous presentation
 of the great medallic history of "Sun King" Louis XIV, whose
 meticulously organized Academy assured a remarkable uniformity
 of classically oriented designs. Octavo, 11¼ x8¼ inches. Spine
 and cover are elaborately gold-stamped with traces of book
 plate removal on the inside cover, a few calligraphic notes
 in minute script appear on several pages from an unknown
 early owner.

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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