Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes

Coins, Medals & Currency, London, dummy issue, 1967; vol.1, nos.1-52 [May 1967-April 1968], vol.2, nos.1-16 [May-August 1968]; Coins, Medals & Currency Weekly, London, vol.2, nos.17-52 [August 1968-April 1969], vol.3, nos.1-52 [May 1969-April 1970], vol.4, nos.1-42 [May 1970-February 1971]; Coins Stamps & Collecting, London, vol.1, nos.1-47 [March 1971-January 1972]; Coin Collecting Weekly, London, vol.1, nos.1-11 [January-April 1972] [Lot]. A complete run of this weekly newspaper in its various guises and titles, containing a wealth of information on the then current numismatic scene; uniformly bound in 10 volumes by the publisher and believed to be the only set to include the dummy issue in private hands (£80-100)

Provenance:
Ex libris Peter Preston-Morley.

Coins, Medals & Currency, popularly known at the time as CM+C, was begun by Morland Lee, a journalist from Torquay who had returned to London after a spell as a Reuters correspondent in South Africa. Lee started the paper at the height of the modern coin boom in the late 1960s and it quickly established itself as an authoritative and timely reference on the numismatic scene of the time. Lee sold the title to the late Roly Vickers of Independent Magazines in February 1971. Vickers attempted to widen the paper’s appeal by including stamps, but this dual role was not universally welcomed by readers; a last ditch attempt to save the title by reverting to a coin-only publication in January 1972 ultimately failed and Vickers closed it three months later