MORE NEWMAN SALE X CURRENCY HIGHLIGHTS

The sales of Selections from the Eric P. Newman Collection are coming to an end this week, with Newman Part X and Newman Part XI (presented in two separate catalogs) closing the series of auctions that began in 2013. These eclectic sales include paper currency, coins, coin-related devices, books, auction catalogs, and archives.

The Signature sessions will be held in Dallas at Heritage Auctions on Wednesday, November 7, and the Internet sessions will close on Saturday, November 10. The Newman sales offer something for everyone, regardless of collector level or budget. Please be sure and visit HA.com for more information.

The Newman Collection auctions have presented one of the greatest opportunities ever in paper money collecting, with thousands of notes being studied and enjoyed by countless numismatists. Though this sale is compact (431 lots total), it is still laden with rare, important, and seldom-seen notes. Some highlights are below:

The catalog includes a special section on Continental Currency contemporary counterfeits. From the 1980s onward, Eric P. Newman and Stuart Levine studied and discussed these circulating counterfeits. Newly updated and clarified diagnostics of the Eric P. Newman Reference Collection (Signature lots 20046-20091 and Internet lots 20412-20424) are published for the first time. Among these notes are the rare and distinctive counterfeit "Fugio" $2/3 note. ha.com/3568- 11362.

Another significant area in the catalog focuses on Eric's groundbreaking Audubon research. The notes, sample sheets, and original hand-colored first edition engraving used to illustrate the 2010 Newman and Peck article, "Discovered! The First Engraving of an Audubon Bird," are presented in this sale. Five seldom-offered engraver's sheets (lots 20103-20107) and three notes (20108- 20110) all showing the Audubon “Running Grouse” are featured. Lot 20106, the very rare 1830- dated Fairman, Draper, Underwood & Co. sample sheet, shows a pair of Audubon's "Running Grouse" vignettes.

Missouri notes were especially relevant to Eric, dating back to the original Green acquisition that formed the core of his important collection. There are 32 Missouri lots (20132-20163), and many are great rarities. Two early “Bon” scrip (20132-20133) lead into a short section of territorial period scrip and banknotes. The 1817 “Partial View of St. Louis” $10 from the 1 st Bank of St. Louis (lot 20142) is in beautiful condition and pairs nicely with a choice 1859 2nd Bank of St. Louis $10 note (20150). Eric’s original Missouri Currency inventory book is featured as well (lot 20163) and includes the Green collection Missouri National Bank notes and the Obsolete notes.

The note offered as lot 20142, the "Partial View of St. Louis," is particularly meaningful, as it was Eric who discovered and dated it the view to 1814. Eric identified all the landmarks in his 1941 article, "Earliest View of St. Louis."

To read the complete lot description, see:
https://currency.ha.com/itm/obsoletes-by-state/missouri/st-louis-missouri-ty-bank-of-st-louis-1st-10-mar-18-1817-mo-45-g26-pcgs-very-fine-30/a/3568-20142.s

This sale also has one of the most interesting items related to United States currency ever encountered. It is an original U.S. Treasury transmittal box for $700 worth of 10 cents in fractional currency (lot 20203). For decades, legend had it still sealed and filled with notes. It is empty, but is immensely desirable and we know of no other. Fractional currency collectors will be excited when this crosses the auction block.

To read the complete lot description, see:
https://currency.ha.com/itm/small-size/legal-tender-notes/united-states-treasury-seven-hundred-dollars-in-ten-cents-fractional-currency-official-cardboard-transmittal-box-very/a/3568-20203.s

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NEWMAN SALE X CURRENCY HIGHLIGHTS (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n43a16.html)

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