Welcome to another decade! Marnie and I have been reminiscing.... The last ten years have seen momentous changes in our lives, as we welcome grandchildren, and as wecontinue to experience the remarkable remaking of our business by our son and partner Lief, who has orchestrated the building of our internet auction platform and brought ourbusiness into the 21st century in many different ways.

Our enthusiasm and approach to numismatics is rooted in the centuries-old enthusiasm for art and history of coinage that began with Romans collecting Greek coins, but thepresentation to a world-wide community of coin enthusiasts via the internet is far beyond anything we could imagine in the early 1990's when we were still doing black-and-whitephotography with a Polaroid camera mounted on a copy stand. My first effort at publishing color photographs involved working with a professional photographer whose gang-shotimages could be converted to color after we paid a pre-press shop to do the work. (My memory? It was expensive and a bit disappointing when we finally got the print catalog inhand.)

We still use the copy stand, but Lief has mastered the art of coin photography, going well beyond my experience. He uses pre-press programs on our own computers to bring thecolor photographs to our catalogs and our website that show you much more than the black-and-white images we presented early on. But we still favor the detailed writtendescriptions we used in those old black-and-white days, so that you have a clear idea of what you can expect.

This catalog? Ordinarily we begin the calendar year with our largest sale of the year, filled with some of our choicest material. That sale is well along in production and willclose in March. But we have some things for you to consider now: a New Year Store Sale, some good and some great pieces that slipped through earlier sales and deserve a secondlook (and at lower estimates); some coins that have come to us looking for new owners, keepers of these bits of history; and some select pieces that could have fit in the biggersale but seem particularly suitable for our first E- Auction of the new decade.

Lot 2: 1913 French 20 Francs

FRANCE. AV 20 francs. 6.46 gm. 21 mm. .1867 oz AGW. 1913. Liberty head right / Rooster left. KM 857. Friedberg 596a. Uncirculated.

To read the complete lot description, see:
E-Auction 34 Lot 2 (https://davcoin.com/lot/e-auction-34-lot-2)

Himera Gorgon Head Hemilitron

SICILY. Himera. Circa 430 B.C. Æ hemilitron. 15.03 gm. 23 mm. Cast coinage, reduced standard. A facing Gorgon with protruding tongue and furrowed cheeks / Six pellets (mark ofvalue). CNS I p. 34, 24. SNG ANS 180.

To read the complete lot description, see:
E-Auction 34 Lot 9 (https://davcoin.com/lot/e-auction-34-lot-9)

Lot 62: Coenwulf Penny

ANGLO-SAXON. Kings of Mercia. Coenwulf. 796-821. AR penny. 1.29 gm. 18 mm. Tribrach type. London mint, Pendwine moneyer. Circa 797/8-805. A Mercian M with a short horizontalline above, a pellet circle around / A tribrach moline; PEN | DVV | INE in angles. S. 914. N. 342. Naismith L14a (this coin). Very Fine; rare moneyer.

Ex Delgany Hoard (1874).
Ex Evans (1908).
Ex Lord Grantley (1944).
Ex Blunt, Lyon and Stewart 1963, Coenwulf 17.
Ex SNC XCVIII.6: 4230.
Ex Patrick Finn (1997).
Ex Triton II (1998).

To read the complete lot description, see:
E-Auction 34 Lot 62 (https://davcoin.com/lot/e-auction-34-lot-62)

Lot 86: 1818 George III Half Crown

George III. 1760-1820. AR halfcrown. 14.17 gm. 31 mm. 1818. His laureate small head right; GEORGIUS III DEI GRATIA 1818 around / Crowned shield in garter; REX FID: DEF: -BRITANNIARUM. S. 3789. ESC 2099 (628).

To read the complete lot description, see:
E-Auction 34 Lot 86 (https://davcoin.com/lot/e-auction-34-lot-86)

Lot 158: Vigo Bay Medal

GREAT BRITAIN. Anne. 1702-1714. Æ medal. 17.46 gm. 37 mm. Expedition to Vigo Bay. By J. Croker. 1702. Her crowned bust left; ANNA DEI GRA MAG BR FRA ET HIB REGINA / View ofships in Vigo Bay, the Spanish and French ships burning; CAPTA ET INCENSA GALET HISP CLASSE around, AD VIGVM XII OCT MDCCII in two lines below. Eimer 395.

To read the complete lot description, see:
https://davcoin.com/lot/e-auction-34-lot-158 (https://davcoin.com/lot/e-auction-34-lot-158)