Coin Cabinets and Numismatic Books 732


SOTHEBY & CO [London], Catalogue of an Extremely Important Russian Collection, 7-8 October 1969, 890 lots, 15 collotype plates, PRL with buyers’ names tipped-in; CHRISTIE’S [Geneva], Important Russian Coins, 12 May 1984, 444 lots, 19 plates, PRL tipped-in; RENAISSANCE AUCTIONS LLC [Philadelphia], Russian Collection, 13-14 August 2000, 1,000 lots, illustrated; SINCONA [Zurich], Auction 48, Russian Coins & Medals, 22 October 2018, 815 lots, all illustrated; together with modern photolitho reprints of Adolph Hess [Frankfurt] catalogues (3), viz. Auktion 204, Russische Münzen des 19. Jahrhunderts, Dubletten Russischer Museen, 18-19 February 1931, 2,473 lots, 8 plates; Auktion 210, Russische Münzen des 14-18. Jahrhunderts, Dubletten Russischer Museen, 25-6 April 1932, 1,956 lots, 11 plates; Auktion 237 [Lucerne], Russische Münzen und Medaillen aus gold und platin, Sammlung des Grossfürsten Georg Michailovitsch von Russland, 25 October 1939, 687 lots, 17 plates [7]. Hess and Sincona catalogues mint and hard-bound, others very fine copies £60-£80


733


WELCH, C., Numismata Londinensia: Medals struck by The Corporation of London…1831 to 1893, London, 1894, xi + 163pp, 14 plates (Manville 569); LOUIS CIANI [Paris], Collection de Monsieur le Général de Grandprey, Monnaies Antiques...Françaises...Médailles, 20-2 February 1935, 1,064 lots, 32 plates; JACQUES SCHULMAN [Amsterdam], Catalogue 237, Collectie G.H. Crone...Netherlands...Collection Kortenbach...Médailles de...Napoléon 1er, 18-21 March 1963, 3,048 lots, 50 plates, PRL pasted-in [3]. First in modern blue cloth, others individually in black cloth, clean


£60-£80 734


A 4pp ALS from John Lindsay at Maryville, Blackrock, Cork, 16 August 1842, to John Yonge Akerman, on the subject of the “Presumed Skeatta of Archbishop Theodore” (Num. Chron. 1842/3, pp.158-9, where reproduced in its entirety). Very fine


£40-£60


The letter reads: “My Dear Sir, At the sale of the late Dr Nott’s coins a small lot of Skeattas came into my possession which included one so remarkable that I am induced to offer a few observations on it. In type it differs but little from that given in Hawkins Pl. 3 No. 33 but at the left side of the figure holding the cross and bird on the reverse and immediately under the bird appears the letter T which I can scarcely consider any thing else than the initial of the name of the Saint or Archbishop whose figure is represented. The coin appears to belong to that class now acknowledged as Northumbrian and from the similarity the figure with cross and bird bears to that with 2 crosses on the coins of Abp. Egbert we may suppose it to belong to one of those Abps of York who preceded that prelate. “On referring to the History of the Church of that period we find that John of Beverley and Wilfrid II were the prelates who immediately preceded Egbert but that prior to these the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of all England was possessed by the celebrated Theodore who appears to have enjoyed this very extensive power from 668 when he arrived in England until his death in 692, and I can hardly help suspecting that this little coin exhibits the initial of his name and was struck by him or in honour of him. It may indeed appear a slight foundation on which to raise such an appropriation, but when we consider that the period when this coin was struck could not be many years distant from that in which this prelate flourished, that the figure on the reverse resembles that on the coins of Abp Egbert, whose coins exhibiting the entire name of that prelate would appear to have been struck later than the coin in question which by its initial may have led to placing the Archbishop’s name at full length, that the type evidently assigns it to a Saint or Archbishop, and that Theodore is one of the 3 persons to whom even if no letter had occurred on this coin we should be inclined to attribute it, the probability that this letter may be the initial of the Abps name will I think be admitted. “I feel greatly obliged for the Proceedings of the Numismatic Society several numbers of which were kindly forwarded to me by either you or your brother Secretary Mr Smith. I remain my dear Sir, faithfully yours, John Lindsay”


735


A 5pp ALS from Thomas Burgon, Stoke Newington, 18 December 1843, to John Lindsay, on the subject of Spanish coins. Very fine


£20-£30


The letter reads: “Dear Sir, Always ready, as far as I am able, to aid in your researches, I am yet fearful that with regard to ye sundry coins of Spain which you mention, I shall be unable to afford you any help. I know of no cabinet where ye coin exists without a good deal of research & more leisure than I possess. I know of no books except Florey or Vertim to which you have perhaps already referred. “If I should find among ye coins of ye late Mr Thomas, either of those of Herod, which you wish for, I will ask for leave to take wax impressions for you. I will also keep in mind any of ye Spanish – but I don’t expect to find any. They were not in his way – rather too ugly & uninteresting. “I have your coin carefully preserved for you – I find there is one precisely similar in [–] Museum from my own Collection – I cannot mention (without more leisure) to say more of it than that it is a coin of Cyparissia. “If you intend to dispose of it, I should like to have ye refusal of it. I should not venture to take this liberty but I think you hinted as much when we last met. “As soon as I am able to see what Num. Chrons. I want I will trouble you, meantime remain in haste d[ea]r Sir yours very truly, Thos. Burgon. “PS. My son had only loosely informed me of your wishes – when you have occasion to say anything, it is better to send me off a short note to which I shall always be happy to attend. My son’s business now absorbs almost all his thoughts & attention, & makes him blunder numismatics”


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