WEBKolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers will be holding their next auction on February 17, 2024, when they will be offering highlights from the extraordinary BCD Library on ancient numismatics. The firm’s website will remain at numislit.com. November 13, 2023.
WEBItem #4844 A collection of articles on ancient, medieval and modern Iranian coinage compiled as a festschrift in honor of Steve Album, the foremost American scholar of and dealer in Islamic coins. Price: $85.00
WEBSoon, I was buying current reference works on various numismatic topics, mainly from Bebee’s of Omaha, the premier retail numismatic bookseller of the day. I also began to receive Frank and Laurese Katen’s auction catalogues and fixed price lists of rare and out of print numismatic literature. This opened a new world for me. A love of books
WEBmain reference book on 19th-century numismatic auction catalogues is United States Numismatic Literature, Volume 1, by John W. Adams, an excellent work which was published in 1982. Adams also has a second volume that deals with catalogues by dealers who began business between 1901 and 1950. Photographically illustrated works: The …
WEBtheir numismatic shingles. Most of their business was conducted through auctions, and their cata-logs were avidly collected as the most accurate price guides available. One of the most notable of these coin dealers was W. Elliot Woodward of Roxbury, Massa-chusetts. In 1867 he sold the collection assembled by Joseph J. Mickley, an auction the likes
WEBAncient Coins in Early American Auctions, 1869–1939. Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2020. Crown 4to, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. 288 pages; illustrated in color throughout. Signed copies available upon request.
WEBKolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers is the largest and longest currently active rare numismatic literature firm in the world. Established in 1967 by George F. Kolbe, our first mail-bid sale was held in 1976 and today we average …
WEBdealer? A: I ran my first ad selling numismatic books in the May 1988 issue of the Early American Coppers publication Penny-Wise, before I had as much as a high school diploma. I had been introduced to the world of numismatic literature through the pages of Bowers and Merena’s Rare Coin Review and by trying to find a copy of William Sheldon ...