MORE HIGHLIGHTS FROM KOLBE & FANNING'S FEBRUARY 1 AUCTION

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are conducting our 155th auction sale on Saturday, February 1, 2020. The sale includes core references on ancient and worldcoins, many of them rarely encountered, as well as notable runs of American auction catalogues. The wide-ranging selection features material from the libraries of Bob Vail, JeffPeck, Doug Robins, Phil Carrigan and others.

Some highlights of the sale include:

Lot 8: the final installment of Max von Bahrfeldt's enormously important work on Roman Republican coins, Nachträge und Berichtigungen zur Münzkunde der römischenRepublik

Lot 53: the very scarce deluxe edition of the memorial volume published in honor of Ernst Justus Haeberlin, author of the classic work on the aes grave coinage

Lot 163: an original copy of the massive catalogue of the Gustave Dreyfus collection of reliefs and plaquettes, with 127 superb plates

Lot 211: the rare and important 1819 Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts on technological advancements in preventing the counterfeiting of bank notes

Lot 272: an original copy of the exceptional John Story Jenks catalogue (Henry Chapman, 1921), with 42 extraordinary photographic plates depicting ancient, medieval and moderncoins and medals

Lot 293: a very significant collection of 174 different catalogues issued by Thomas L. Elder between 1905 and 1940

Lot 361: a complete set of auction catalogues published by the New Netherlands Coin Company between 1940 and 1976

Lot 364: an attractively bound plated copy of the New York Coin & Stamp Company's 1890 auction catalogue of the Robert Coulton Davis collection

Lot 380: a generally unknown 1847 publication by John Leonard Riddell, Melter and Refiner at the United States Branch Mint at New Orleans, on the Mint's operations andprocesses

Lot 420: a complete collection of the first seventy editions of A Guide Book of United States Coins, with the first edition represented by a first printing.

Bids may be placed via post, email, fax or phone, as well as online. Kolbe & Fanning use Auction Mobility as our third-party online bidding platform. Auction Mobility is anapp-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 Kolbe & Fanning app through the Apple or Google Play Store.

The printed catalogue of Sale 155 was mailed to active customers this week. A PDF of the printed catalogue has been posted to our main website at numislit.com for those who prefer that format. Bids placed via post, email, fax or phone must be received by January 31, 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 biddingwill 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 atnumislit.com or email David Fanning at df@numislit.com. To register for the sale, go to bid.numislit.com. We look forward to your participation.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
KOLBE & FANNING SALE 155 ANNOUNCED (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n02a02.html)