KOLBE & FANNING OCTOBER 2025 SALE SELECTIONS

 

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers will be holding our next auction sale on Saturday, October 4, 2025. Sale 174 features an eclectic selection of rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics, the property of over twenty different consignors from around the world. The wide variety of material to be found in the 500 lots comprising the sale means that there is something for everybody.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

   

 

Lot 49: an extensive run of the German Archaeological Institute's periodical Chiron, with numismatic contributions by a number of important scholars

 

Lot 177: a priced and named copy of Sotheby & Son's 1832 auction catalogue of the Marmaduke Trattle collection of ancient and British coins and medals, with a letter from Trattle laid in

 

Lot 205: the first four parts of the first major corpus of Russian medals, complete for the Imperial medals, published by the Arkheograficheskaia Kommissiia in 1840–1841

 

Lot 326: a complete set of the 1895–1897 Sotheby's catalogues of the Hyman Montagu collection of English coins, entirely priced and named

 
Lots 379 and 391

Lot 379: Lester Merkin's copy of Henry Chapman's outstanding 1912 catalogue of the George H. Earle, Jr. collection, with 39 fine photographic plates

Lot 391: a priced and named plated copy of Edward Cogan's 1869 sale of the Mortimer Livingston Mackenzie collection, the first U.S. coin catalogue with photographic plates

 
Lots 403 and 430

Lot 403: Tom Elder's important 1910 catalogue of the Peter Mougey collection, with 42 fine photographic plates, infrequently offered, and especially important for large cents

Lot 430: a collection of 79 hardcover catalogues (1977–2010), issued in limited numbers, by George Frederick Kolbe, comprising 81 of his sales of important numismatic literature

 
Lots 458 and 476

Lot 458: a complete set of Mehl's Numismatic Monthly, a tremendous source of information on American and Canadian coins as well as on the history of the hobby itself

Lot 476: William Sumner Appleton's copy of the extremely rare stand-alone offprint of the Rev. Edmund Slafter's work on Vermont coppers, later in a number of fine private libraries.

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.

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 Oct. 3, 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.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
KOLBE & FANNING OCTOBER 2025 SALE ANNOUNCED (https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n38a03.html)

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