KOLBE & FANNING FEBRUARY 28 MAIL-BID SALE RESULTS

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers held their 128th mail-bid sale of important numismatic books on Thursday, February 28. Featuring selections from the Paul Rynearson library and other properties, the sale included standard works on ancient coins, as well as publications on medieval, foreign and U.S. numismatics.

The sale had good participation, with some hotly contested lots:

—A complete set of the Forni reprint of the massive Corpus Nummorum Italicorum (lot 204) sold for $2415 (prices include the 15% premium)

—Albert Gallatin’s popular 1930 work on the Syracusan Dekadrachms of the Euainetos Type (lot 292) sold for $833.75

—G. Kenneth Jenkins’s important The Coinage of Gela (lot 399) sold for $862.50

—The Marquess of Milford Haven’s landmark British Naval Medals (lot 526) sold for $1207.50

—An 1871 broadside catalogue of a Bangs, Merwin & Co. coin sale (lot 889) sold for $575

—The complete presentation editions of the Bowers & Ruddy/Merena sales of the Garrett, Norweb, Eliasberg and Brand collections, as issued in three imposing volumes, one of only 15 possible sets (lot 914), sold for $4255

—A rare work by Walter Breen consisting of a text on California fractional gold with accompanying color slides (lot 927) sold for $920

—An unusually nice copy of the North American Fonrobert sale (lot 1246) sold for $1035.

The full prices realized list can be found on the Kolbe & Fanning website at www.numislit.com.

For more information on Kolbe & Fanning sales, please contact David Fanning at df@numislit.com or (614) 414-0855.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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