DAVISSON'S E-AUCTION 53

Our summer E-Auction opens with Greek coins from the Peter Bartlett Collection. This sale complements and completes the important offering from the Bartlett Collection featured in our March 25, 2026 sale – gold, silver, and bronze from the beginning of coinage itself, in the 7th century B.C. in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), with a particular focus on the earliest coins of Ionia. (If you would like a print copy of our March auction please get in touch.)

Look for small (and scarce) pieces of art, conservatively estimated, with bees from Ephesos, lions from Miletos, griffins from Phokaia, and more. Such a focused and carefully-assembled collection presents a rare opportunity—many of the coins are in exceptional condition for the type and come with pedigrees linked to important auction firms in the 1980s-2000s.

The ancient offering includes several other notable consignments, including one featuring pieces previously auctioned by Craig A. Whitford Auctioneers in the 1990s-early 2000s. Of particular note are coins from the NBD Bank Money Museum Collection (Detroit, Michigan) that were offered in 1992-1993. The consignment features a variety of handsome Greek silver and bronze, with a focus on tetradrachms of the Seleukid Empire.

Our Greek section concludes with a pleasing run of Parthian silver, leading into our Roman section featuring attractive silver and bronze from a variety of consignments, including some Republican and a nice run of Imperial denarii.

We recently acquired the final part of a British collection formed by one of the first serious collectors to take part in our auctions in the early days—material his heirs found recently. (We purchased the main portion of his collection nearly a decade ago.) You will see a few pieces here and more in subsequent sales.

These coins reminded me of our decision to run auctions rather than fixed priced lists. Pulling together enough material to present a respectable auction was our first challenge. Then there was the physical challenge of producing a catalog with the photography and printing technology at the time.

There was also the decision to not have a buyer's fee—something that was becoming prominent at the time and something I found annoying as a buyer.

This sale's provincial token coinage offering includes more of the quality collection formed by Harold Welch. The Kempson and Skidmore penny size building tokens of the era—Middlesex, and the half penny Warwickshire issues are a particularly well designed series that provides a look at the cityscapes people experienced at the time. Look also for a few choice Spence issues and a short section of Angusshire issues.

The sale wraps up with a mixture of historic crowns, some high quality United States type coins including some Carson City dollars and a few unusual but fascinating bits including three "box medals."

We have enjoyed putting this sale together, and hope you find things of interest. And if you have a few pieces that you want to de-access in anticipation of something different, or an entire collection you have worked on, do get in touch. We will treat your material with great care, bring all our experience to bear in cataloging and presentation to our worldwide client base, and will produce a printed catalog that you will have as a record of what you have achieved.

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