Catalogue Of A Fine Collection Of Rare Coins American And Foreign Medals Paper Money War Envelopes Etc PDF Download

Excerpt from Catalogue of a Fine Collection of Coins, Medals, Paper Money, War Envelopes, Stone Implements, Etc: Including a 1796 Half Dollar, Very Fine 1793 and 1804 Cents, and Many Other Rare and Desirable Coins; To Be Sold Without Reserve, at the Central Auction Rooms, Lancaster, Pa., On Tuesday and Wednesday Afternoons, June 28 and 29, 1881 Ago 22 1840 Silver shield for the American Army and Navy, for par V ticipation in the Mexican war, vessels, cannon, and stack of arms, gates of Mexico, names of battles and generals, 20 stars, very fine, scarce, sizes 20 and 28. A/ 23 1850 Schiller's Centennial Birthday Festival, bust of Schiller, W. M., uncirculated, size 20. 24 Duplicate, very good. 25 Bronze Medal con'imemorating the Abolition of the Slave Trade by Great Britian in 1809, plantation scene, reverse, Arabic inscrip tion, very good and scarce, size 22. 3 20 Bronze Medal, head oflvilliain Pitt, reverse, The man who saved, etc obverse, good, reverse, fair, size 25. View of National Wallace Monment, reverse, Scottish Memorial, 7. Proof, size 22. P 28 Foreign Bronze Medals, uncirculated, sizes 24 and 20, 2 pieces. 29 Copy of Queen Anne Medal, size 22. Fine impressions of rare Foreign Medals in lead, neatly bound with brass bands, all different and rare, 0 pieces. L/ 31 Hard Times Tokens, store cards and copper heads, good to fine, pieces. 7 32 1837-1841 Hard Times Tokens, all different, very good lot, 8 pieces. Y Q 33 Satirical medal, Napoleon seated on a mule backwards, with a rope around his neck held by the devil who is leading him to Elba, good, scarce. Yo 34 Head of hog with pointed moustache, representing Napoleon III., reverse, a vampire, satirical bronze medal, proof, size 20. Brass medal of Chang, Barnum's giant, proof, size 18. 70 30 Bust of Franklin, reverse, Lovett's card, silver proof size 18. 37 Head oflincoln, reverse, broken column and flags, bronze, uncircu lated, scarce, size 12. Political medals, Taylor, Scott, Lincoln, etc., copper, brass and white metal, fine to uncirculated, size 12 to 20, all different, 1-3 pieces. J 30 1870 Grant Procession Mint Medal, brass, uncirculated. Q 40 Am I not a woman and sister, very good. 35 41 French playing token, double head of good and bad luck, reverse, female leading naked youth, bronze proof, size 10 l'ittsburg Numismatic Society, '. V. Ni. Proof, size 43 Store Cards, good to uncirculated, 100 pieces/3 4 44 Sutler's Checks, 10 45 Old bronze medal of the Roman Priapus. Those acquainted With ancientliistory will understand why we dare not describe this deity worshiped by the Roman damsels, very good, size 20. 40 U. S. Postage and envelope stamps, all dill'erent, 31 pieces 47 U. S. Official stamps, 7, Navy 2, Interior 4, \var3, Treas ury 4, all dill'erent, 20 pieces. }3 48 Foreign Postage Stamps, all different, 172 pieces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.