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The E-Sylum: Volume 28, Number 52, 2025, Article 2

BRYCE BROWN DICK JOHNSON LIBRARY SALE, PART II

Bryce Brown is auctioning the Dick Johnson library on eBay. Here's the announcement for Part II. -Editor

  D. Wayne "Dick" Johnson Numismatic Library Sale Part II closes 1/07/2026

Part II of the Dick Johnson library features literature on United States medals, world coins and medals, and ancient coins and medals.

Fittingly, the sale starts with Johnson's annotated working copy of R.W. Julian's Medals of the United States Mint. Other notable titles include:

  Venuti 1739 Antiqua Numismata Snelling's 1776 Thirty-Three plates of English medals

  • Bizot's 1690 work on Dutch medals
  • Venuti's 1739 & 1744 works on coins and medals
  • Martin-Leake's 1745 Historical Account of English Money
  • Snelling's 1776 Thirty-Three plates of English medals
  • Mechel's 1776/1778 work on medals
  • Edwards' 1837 Medals Struck in France 1789-1830

  Smith's 1842 Dictionary of Greek & Roman Antiquities Humphries

  • Smith's 1842 Dictionary of Greek & Roman Antiquities
  • Humphries' 1850 work on ancient coins and medals
  • A nice set of Loubat's Medallic History of the United States
  • Bramsen's 1904-1913 works on Napoleon medals
  • Hocking's 1906 & 1910 Royal Mint Museum catalogs
  • 1914 Catalogue of the Library of the Birmingham Assay Office

  Hill Medals of the Renaissance Bramsen's 1904-1913 works on Napoleon medals

  • A beautifully bound 1923 Hill on Renaissance medals
  • Storrer's 1931 Medicina in Nummis
  • Eglit's 1965 Columbiana
  • Grove's three volumes on Medals of Mexico
  • Kienast's 1967 & 1986 works on Karl Goetz medals
  • Forrer's (1970) Biographical Dictionary of Medallists

  Kienast Medals of Karl Goetz I Kienast Medals of Karl Goetz II

These are now open for bidding on eBay, under seller name dwj-numismatic-library. All lots close the evening of Wednesday, January 7th, 2026. Link:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?item=317632104582&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=dwj-numismatic-library

Any questions can be asked through eBay, or by contacting me at dwj.library@gmail.com .

Dick Johnson's copy of the rare first printing of The Fantastic 1804 Dollar was sold to a lucky bidder in Part 1. As described in an earlier E-Sylum, it was signed by Eric P. Newman, Ken Bressett and Dick Johnson on August 17, 1962. Hobby history! -Editor

  Dick Johnson signed frist printing Fantastic 1804 Dollar book

To read the complete lot description, see:
The Fantastic 1804 Dollar, rare first printing, inscribed by Bressett & Newman (https://www.ebay.com/itm/317635368149?itmmeta=01KDH8X29ZPG17NJR4M48A1907&hash=item49f48b14d5:g:OjkAAeSwLENpNcai)

To read earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
FANTASTIC 1804 DOLLAR BOUND PAGE PROOFS CENSUS (https://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n04a12.html)
D. WAYNE JOHNSON (1930-2020) (https://www.coinbooks.org/v24/esylum_v24n01a06.html)
A DICK JOHNSON BIOGRAPHY (https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n13a20.html)
BRYCE BROWN SALE OF DICK JOHNSON LIBRARY (https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n49a03.html)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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