The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 22, June 1, 2003, Article 11

1879 AUCTION SALE REPORT

  Dave Bowers writes: "I am enclosing herewith a ?fun? item
  from the Portsmouth Journal, Saturday, October 18, 1879,
  sent to me by a research friend, Richard Winslow, III.  This
  is simply an out-of-town press release, and this instance from
  New York City, run as a filler in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
  Although I haven't done so, no doubt the sale would be
  quickly identifiable by checking a few of the prices:

  ?Collectors of coins in this city, will be interested in knowing
   that at an auction sale in New York last week a cent of 1799
  sold for $52; one of 1806, for $33; one of 1795, for $25;
  one of 1811, for $23.50; one of 1796, for $19.50; one of
  1823 and 1809 for $15.  A twenty-cent piece of 1874,
  brought $18; one of 1877 for $5.10, one of 1878 for $4.50"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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