KOLBE & FANNING AUCTION SALE 158 HIGHLIGHTS

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are holding our 158th auction sale on Saturday, November 21, 2020. The 467-lot sale features material from the extensive working library of Eldert Bontekoe, the TAB Library of works on ancient coins, and other properties. Most heavily focused on books and catalogues relating to ancient coins, the sale also features a substantial section on world coins and a smaller, but choice, selection of items of American interest.

Some highlights of the sale include:

Lots 56 and 174

Lot 56: Edward Newell’s copy of Combe’s 1782 Hunterian catalogue

Lot 174: Rollin & Feuardent’s majestic 1898 catalogue of the Henri Hoffmann collection

Lots 200 and 286

Lot 200: one of only 50 copies produced of the 2012 reprint of Svoronos & Pick on Athenian coins

Lot 286: Burzio’s massive three-volume work on Buenos Aires medals

Lot 211

Lot 211: an original set of Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum von Aulock

Lot 269

Lot 269: Dr. Bassoli’s set of Argelati’s rare and enormously important De Monetis Italiae, a foundational classic of Italian numismatic literature

Lots 412 and 415

Lot 412: S.H. Chapman’s catalogue of the Dr. Henry Beckwith collection of United States large cents, with seven spectacular photographic plates of the highest quality

Lot 415: Brent Pogue’s exceptional copy of the "Nova Constellatio" binding of the first edition of Crosby’s Early Coins of America

Lots 425 and 459

Lot 425: the complete photographic record of the Eugene Gardner collection of United States silver coins

Lot 459: a beautifully bound copy of Thompson’s rare Autographical Counterfeit Detector.

Register early to bid online
Bids may be placed via post, email, fax or phone, as well as online. Kolbe & Fanning is using Auction Mobility as our third-party online bidding platform. Auction Mobility is an app-based platform allowing users the ability to participate in the sale through phones, tablets and computers. To register for the sale, bidders must go to bid.numislit.com and sign up. Once you have set up an account, you may browse lots, place advance bids, or participate in the live sale online. Those wishing to participate on their devices can download the new Kolbe & Fanning app through the Apple or Google Play Store.

Bids placed via post, email, fax or phone must be received by Friday, Nov. 20, the day before the sale, in order for them to be processed. Advance absentee bids may also be placed at any time online at bid.numislit.com; live internet bidding will be available during the sale itself through the same platform.

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers LLC is a licensed and bonded auction firm in the State of Ohio. For more information, please see the Kolbe & Fanning website at bid.numislit.com or email David Fanning at df@numislit.com.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
KOLBE & FANNING AUCTION SALE 158 ANNOUNCED (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n44a02.html)

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