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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 27, June 29, 2014, Article 9

QUERY: BOOK WITH PINE TREE SHILLING SOUGHT

Alan V. Weinberg writes:

1878 Die Münzen Akarnaniens I read last week's E-Sylum segment on the BCD Greek numismatic library sale with its image of the superb leather binding of Imhoof-Brumer's book on Coins of Acamania (1878) wherein a genuine and choice original stater of Acamania is embedded in the front leather cover.

This immediately brought to mind a volume on colonial Massachusetts money that Beverly Hills dealer Jerry Cohen (when he was partners with Abner Kreisberg) offered to me some 30+ years ago. It had a choice Ex Fine Noe 1 Pine Tree shilling under glass embedded in the center of the front leather cover, as made.

Jerry priced the book at $5,000 which I found excessive and passed- the coin was then worth perhaps $1,000. I wonder if the book was unique as bound with the genuine shilling and where it is today? That coin, assuming the reverse was as choice as the obverse, would be a $20K coin today.

This is a topic we touched on in 2010. Since then no one has reported a sighting of the book Alan mentioned. Can anyone help? Has the poor book been dismembered? I wonder what the author and title was. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: QUERY: COIN BOOKS WITH AN ENCASED COIN OR MEDAL (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n30a09.html)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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