David F. Fanning Numismatic Literature  

Welcome to the Web site of David F. Fanning Numismatic Literature. We sell rare and out-of-print numismatic literature from all times and places. Our current inventory includes works on ancient, medieval and modern numismatics, including a wide variety of material on American numismatics. Items range from the 16th to the 21st century and come in over a dozen languages.

October 28 Auction Prices Realized

The prices realized list for our October 28 auction is available here. Thank you to everyone who took part: the sale was very successful, with some very strong prices seen on fine material. The catalogue (sans illustrations) is available here. The sale included a wide variety of material on ancient, medieval, foreign and U.S. numismatics, and featured a number of rare and important works. Contact us today to be added to the mailing list for future offerings.

Fixed Price Lists

The Basement

We have published a fixed price list devoted to inexpensive numismatic literature, The Basement. Here you can find books, periodicals and auction catalogues that, as useful as they may be, are neither rare nor expensive — and that the economics of cataloguing preclude from presentation in our more formal catalogues. Cataloguing for these items has been kept to a minimum, as have the prices. Check it out here.

Send us an e-mail if you would like to be notified upon the publication of new catalogues. 

We hope to make this site a useful resource for collectors of numismatic literature and those who use such literature in their research. Check in with us as we develop this site and see what's new.

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What We Do

David F. Fanning Numismatic Literature specializes in rare and out of print publications pertaining to numismatics. This includes books, periodicals, auction catalogues and fixed price lists, ephemeral publications, letters and other memorabilia. We buy and sell important works, and work with collectors and researchers to locate copies of the texts they are looking for. For those wishing to sell, we offer flexible consignment rates for inclusion in our catalogues. Contact us for more details.

Current Catalogues

Our October 28 auction of numismatic literature is available for downloading in PDF form here. The auction includes a wide range of material, some of which is described here.

Our June 2008 catalogue of inexpensive numismatic literature, The Basement, is available for downloading here. Included are long runs of Bowers, Katen, Kolbe, Merkin, Stack's and many other auction catalogues, as well as books and periodicals: over 800 items in all.