New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-25
ANGRY WORDS At 4 COIy SALE.
CoUNTERFEITS DEMANDED BY GOVERNMENT
SECRET SERVICE MEN-AMOUNTS PAID


The sale OF the Davis collection of coins which has
been going Oh for five days in the quiet upper floor
at No. 80 Broadway, occupied by Bangs a CO.,
auconcers, not, before yesterday, the scene of
wild excitement II has been as different from the
average auction in point Of noise and excitement as
the pleasant little sessions at Doctors Commons
which Dickens describes, differ from a hotly con-
tested will case. Nevertheless there trouble
brewing When the auctonecr, Mr. Merwn, reached
No. 2,479 OF the catalogue yesterday he said Counter
'cits Of rare Colonals we will pass"
Then tho storm broke. 8" Why don't you tell the
story it s'7 Indignantly exclaimed II. p. Smith.
Of the Ncw-York Coin and Stamp Company. Why
don't you say they were stolen"
DO you want me to say explicitly that the solicitor
Of the Treasury has ordered that these coins should
be taken ont aud sent to him 81 replied Mr. Merwin
quietly. d" Well. gentlemen, that has been said. and
that has been d@e will pass on to something
better"
A. was published in The Tribune yesterday, the
secret Service Bureau viewed with alarm the an
nouncement that counterfeS TO be sold al public
auction. Mr. Brooks. the head Of the Bureau for this
district obtained a catalogue and sent the page con
tanning the fclonious announcement to Washington
Acting under orders received by telegraph from the
solicitor Of the Treasury and by advice of United
states District Attorney Mitchell, of this city, Mr.
Brooks yesterday morning requested the surrender OF
the Objectionable coins. They were at once given up
MI Blooh5 slEucN IfUcpt lOf tnoIn IL u 9dih thd
IL the counterfeits had been called copies no oh
lection would have been raised Mr.. smith declares
that demand Will be made upon the secretary of the
Treasury for the surrender OF the coins. BY com
parison with these facsimilcs, collectors can tell
whether a coin that IS offered to them is genuine or
not. without them 1t may be necessary to send the
coin long distances for comparison with original
4. j. Rose, the United states Assistant District
Attorney, said 10 Tribune reporter yesterday after
hat tbc Ia he nf rnur
tcrfeit coins or currency even when sold as such
Tn, law applied, he sud- 20 the coins and currency of
the nitcd states, or Of any country with which the
United states had treaty When asked II the GOV
eminent had any treaties with the former American
Colonies Of Great britain. MIR Rose admitted that
just there question might arise II the was
brought INTO court 1t should be said that few Of
tac spurious coins IN question were OF later date than
the formation Of the Union.
Among the noteworthy sales Yesterday were these
United state, ccnt,-lwO Of 1893. 90 each, 1893,
Liberty cap so. same date bust of Liberty, 80 :,
lf!". SO. l-2l. 81 80, 1-2S. ~ 30 Hall cents
1896, So; l-3l, Sl4 In fractional currency
- cent note OF the third issue. bust Fcsscuden sold
Tor $40 -. % cent note Of the issue bearing
thc autographs of Colby and spinner and accom- nice
hv ltt"r from Mr.. spinner saving that IL Wa the
first one issued. sold for so. An Eugli-h crown Of
th" time OF Cromwell. dated 1853. brought S3l The
total for the entire sale was TD,d62.