Catalogue of a very Valuable and Interesting Collection of Gold, Silver and Copper Coins, Together with the Most Valued Assortment of Pattern Pieces which Has Ever Been Offered at Public Auction, Many of Them Being Offered for the First Time on this Occasion
Subtitle: Concluding with a Small Lot of Paper Money, to be Sold at Auction By Messrs. Bangs & Co., 656 Broadway, New York on Thursday and Friday, 12th and 13th April, 1877, Commencing at 3 o'clock, P.M.
By: Catalogued by Edward Cogan.  
Contributors: Jenks, Abram Stockton, 1820-1895; Messrs. Bangs & Co.  
Published: 1877
Language: eng
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Gold coins; Catalogs; Silver coins; American Paper money; Half-cents; Colonial Coins; Medals
Description: Jenk's collection containing very valuable and rare gold, silver and copper coins, together with an assortment of pattern pieces.
Notes: Lots 1-949, hand-priced.

Includes Index.

T.p. recto signed in pencil: "A.S. Jenks of Philadelphia".

Copy #B, #182 priced, #252 partly priced.

Cataloguing based on U.S. bound auction catalog 252.

See John Adams, United States numismatic literature,       v. 1, Cogan 51, page 23

Date of sale: April 12 & 13, 1877.

Place of sale: 656 Broadway, New York.

Cataloged 20150529 JJG
Table of contents: title: Title page recto and verso (p. [1-2]); title: Index recto and verso (p. [3-4]); title: Assay medals (p. 23); title: Base money proofs (p. 23); title: Copper, silver and W.M. medals (plate 1); title: Centennial medals (p. 6); title: Cents, U.S., and half cents (p. 32); title: Colonial pieces (p. 38); title: Gold, American (p. 16); title: Pattern and experimental pieces (p.17); title: Paper money, Congress and colonial (p. 40); title: Sundry pieces (plate 1); title: Silver, American, dollars, & Co. (p. 6).