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V28 2025 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 28, Number 3, 2025, Article 2

Here's a final group of highlights from the January 25, 2025 Kolbe & Fanning numismatic literature sale. -Editor

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers will be holding our next auction, featuring rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics, on Saturday, January 25, 2025. Including material from several consignments, most notably the L.D. & I.P. Library (with exceptional auction catalogues on ancient and world coins) and the Barry Tayman Library (outstanding U.S. and Canadian material), there is something for everybody with numismatic interests.

Lot 91: a bound volume from the Seltman and Salton Libraries, containing three heavily annotated Jacob Hirsch catalogues (Sales 18, 19 and 20)

Lot 120: Agostino Pennisi and Giulio Emanuele Rizzo's 1940 Siciliae veteres nummi, with five remarkably fine phototype plates of coins

Lot 150: a complete set of Rodolfo Ratto's twenty-three later (1931–1939) fixed price lists, bound with two rarely encountered supplementary lists

Lot 163: Herb Kreindler's beautifully bound copy of Rollin & Feuardent's 1896 catalogue of the Montagu Roman & Byzantine gold coins, priced and mostly named

Lot 264: a complete set of Pierre-Ancher Tobiésen Duby's three folio volumes on obsidional and French feudal coins (1786 & 1790), in contemporary bindings

Lot 279: George Francis Hill's classic two-volume folio Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance before Cellini (1930), a core reference on the subject

Lot 298: a nearly complete set of the Canadian Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal (1872–1933), published in thirty-three volumes across four series

Lot 403: a well-preserved plated copy of S.H. Chapman's 1911 catalogue of the Julius Brown collection, from the Merkin and Adams Libraries

Lot 493: a presentation copy of J.L. Riddell's 1845 Monograph of the Silver Dollar, Good and Bad, inscribed by him to the superintendent of the New Orleans Mint

Lot 501: one of five sets of the magnificent 52 Collection catalogues (Stack's, 2010–2011), sumptuously bound in a single volume in full black morocco.

Register early to bid online
Bids may be placed via post, email, phone, as well as online. Kolbe & Fanning use Auction Mobility as our third-party online bidding platform. Auction Mobility is an app-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 sale will also be listed on Biddr and NumisBids in the near future.

The printed catalogue has been mailed to all active customers on our mailing list. As international mail speeds have been inconsistent, we encourage our foreign clients to consult the electronic catalogue in case their printed catalogue does not arrive promptly. 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, or phone must be received by January 24 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. Internet bidding will be available during the sale itself through the same platform.

Maria Beth Fanning, doing business as Kolbe & Fanning, is licensed by the State of Ohio Department of Agriculture (license 2024000216) as an auctioneer, and is bonded as required by law in favor of the State of Ohio. For more information, please see the Kolbe & Fanning website at numislit.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.