STEPHEN ALBUM LITERATURE AUCTION 2 SELECTIONS

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V26 2023 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 41, October 8, 2023, Article 2

Stephen Album Rare Coins is holding their second numismatic literature auction on October 9, 2023. Here are some additional lot selections. -Editor

Lot 98: Burnie, R. H., Small California And Territorial Gold Coins: Quarter Dollars, Half Dollars, Dollars, First Edition, Pascagoula, 1955, 96 pages, softcover three-ring bound. Contains an introduction, a short essay called "Notes on the Small California Gold Coinage" and many descriptions of coin types.

Lot 106: Challis, M.A.S. and C.E. Blackburn, Studies in the coinages of Carausius and Allectus, British Numismatic Society, London, 1985, 50 pages including 5 plates, softcover, ex Libris Stephen Huston.

Lot 134: Credit Communal de Belgique, One Money for Europe, Credit Communal de Belgique, Brussels, 1991, 159 pages, softcover. Published in conjunction with an exhibit at the Credit Communal and the convening of the XIth International Numismatic Congress at the time of the introduction of the ECU as a potential single monetary unit for Europe. It is a series of short papers, the authors of which represent a who's who of European numismatics. The papers cover Greek before Athenian Owls, Attic Tetradrachm, Magna Graecia, Federal Coinage in Greece, Roman Denarius, Roman Empire in general, Celts, Solidus and Besant in Western Europe, Carolingian, Denier of Friesach as international trade coin, Luxembourg coinage, Scandinavia, Catalonian solution to International Monetary Union, Union of Elector of the Rhine Burgundy, Return to large coinage, the Sterling, The Ducat, the Florin, Royal French coinage, the Thaler, the Maria Teresa Thaler, the Sovereign, Germanal Franc and the Latin Union, German Zollverein, Currency, Resistance to and problems of a common currency, the ECU. Great maps, outstanding photos, ex James Farr Collection Library.

Lot 166: Dickinson, Michael, Seventeenth Century Tokens of the British Isles and their Values, Spink & Son Ltd, London, 2004 reprint (1986), 285 pages, 7 plates, hardcover with dust jacket. Catalog based on the earlier work of Williamson, with revisions, additions, and valuations. Catalog arranged by county with legends, descriptions, and denominations, and values in the grade of fine.

Lot 311: Karishkovskii, P. O., Moneti Ol'bii (Coins of Olbia), Akademiya Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR, Odesskii, Arkheologicheskii Muzei, Kiev, 1988, 166 pages, 8 plates, softcover. This is not a catalogue, but rather a detailed treatment of the monetary system of ancient Olbia on the Black Sea. There are many line drawings of coins in the book, including a few pages of dolphins of several types. A nice little book with better-than-usual photographic plates, as well as several pages showing inscriptions and monograms found on coins. Russian text.

Lot 366: Lux, Dr. Iván, Identification of Archduke Ferdinand II Tyrolean Thalers, Budapest 2017, 88 pages, hardcover, full listing with color images of 224 thaler versions in a logical system of 61 groups, easy and prompt identification of any Archduke Ferdinand Tyrolean thalers, two-step process: instant identifier for primary identification, and listing of all versions with images and circumscriptions for fine selection, rarity values estimated from current frequencies, mapping of previous identifications to the present one.

Lot 382: McGregor, G & H.H.P. Häberling, The Native Pass Tokens of German South West Africa, Windhoek, 52 pages, softcover, bilingual in English and German. This book provides an overview of the holed brass passses which natives were forced to carry after 1904 in the colony of German South West Africa. The operation of the pass token system is described in detail along with the depiction of the individual tokens. All districts in which pass tokens were used are listed together with the relevant serial numbers. The format of this book makes it convenient to use as a reference work for collectors of such tokens.

Lot 495: Ramsden, Henry A., Siamese Porcelain and Other Tokens, Yokohama, 1911, original printing, 37 pages, 20 colorized plates, softcover, most online copies of this book have black and white photographic plates whereas this original printing has high quality colorized plates, ex Dr. Axel Wahlstedt Library.