Auction Catalogue

30 June 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British and World Coins, Tokens, Historial and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1652

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30 June 2004

Hammer Price:
£180

Thorburn, W.S., A Guide to the History and Valuation of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland…with their value, 2nd [posthumous] edn, London, 1888, viii + 164pp, 39 engraved plates [all but two coloured]; Oman, C., The Coinage of England, Oxford, 1931, xii + 395pp, 45 engraved plates; Seaby, H.A. (ed), Notes on English Silver Coins, 1066-1648, London, 1948, 87pp (2 copies, one bound in blue rexine); Linecar, H.W.A., and Stone, A.G., English Proof and Pattern Crown-Size Pieces 1658-1960, London, 1968, 116pp, illustrations in text; Sutherland, C.H.V., English Coinage 600-1900, London, 1973, 232pp, 108 plates, dj.; together with other books and offprints on English coins (26), by Taylor Combe, Dolley, Brooke, Grueber, Marsh, North, Finn, Schwer, Teasdill, Briers, etc [32]. Publishers’ bindings; first six and many others very fine copies (£80-100)

The Taylor Combe offprint details the important Dorking Hoard, 1818