Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1685

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25 June 2003

Hammer Price:
£120

Coins and Medals, Croydon, vol.1, nos.1-2 [July-December 1964], vol.2, nos.1, 2, 4 [July-December 1965]; vol.3, nos.1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12 [January-December 1966], vol.4, nos.1, 4-7 [January-July 1967], vol.5, nos.9-16 [May-December 1968], vol. 6 [January-December 1969]; Coins, Croydon, vols. 7-10 [January 1970-December 1973]; Coins and Medals, Croydon, vols.11-15 [January 1974-December 1978]; together with Coins and Medals 1970 Annual, and Coin News, Honiton, 1995-2001 (40, all different) [Lot]. The 1964-78 run uniformly bound in 14 volumes by the publisher; much useful information (£50-60)

Provenance:
Ex libris Peter Preston-Morley.

Coins and Medals, the UK’s first popular coin magazine, was launched by Link House Publications in the summer of 1964 as the result of an initiative by the late Howard Linecar, who was the magazine’s first associate editor. Publication, under the first term of editorship by the late Arthur Blair, was at first somewhat erratic, but when the editorial chair was taken over by Heather Salter in 1967 the magazine started to flourish and became a useful publication of record