David F. Fanning Numismatic Literature 

Auction III: December 3, 2009

    Catalogue available here.

    Prices realized list available here.

    Highlights:

• Lot 607 (a complete, 21-volume set of hardcover Stack’s Ford catalogues): $2500

• Lot 375 (a 1795 Supplementary Mint Act hand-signed by Secretary of State Edmund Randolph): $2400

• Lot 409 (John J. Ford’s set of inscribed Red Books, 1960-1998): $1600

• Lot 573 (the rare 1917 ANA sale, hand-signed by cataloguer Wayte Raymond): $1300

• Lot 476 (58 volumes of Spink's Numismatic Circular): $1050

The above are the hammer prices and do not include the 15% buyer’s premium.

Auction II: June 4, 2009

    Catalogue available here.

    Prices realized list available here.

    Highlights:

• Lot 223 (photographs and negatives depicting coins from the Waldo C. Newcomer collection): $4500

• Lot 73 (1702 folio of Charpentier et al. on medals of Louis XIV, with the extremely rare suppressed Preface): $4000

• Lot 75 (1723 folio of Charpentier et al.): $4000

• Lot 315 (Fisher’s 1837 description of American medals): $2700

• Lot 145 (1709 Act of Queen Anne, regulating the value of foreign coins in America): $1600

• Lot 186 (Groux’s 1856 Prospectus): $1000

The above are the hammer prices and do not include the 15% buyer’s premium.

Auction I: October 28, 2008

    Catalogue available here.

    Prices realized list available here.

    Highlights:

• Lot 676 (a plated copy of the 1886 Maris sale): $5,600

• Lot 1 (the Journal of the Senate containing the Act Establishing the Mint): $4,200

• Lot 486 (a volume containing six of Ed Frossard's plated sales): $4,100

• Lot 474 (Elder's Gschwend sale with plates): $3,600

• Lot 182 (a copy of Crosby in a Nova Constellatio binding): $2,100

• Lot 717 (the U.S. Coin Co. sale of the Jackson collection, with plates): $1,725.

The above are the hammer prices and do not include the 15% buyer’s premium.