| Description |
Dickeson, Montroville Wilson. The American Numismatical Manual of the Currency or Money of the Aborigines, and Colonial, State, and United States Coins... Philadelphia, 1859. First edition. 4to, later brown cloth in library style. Handsome lithographic frontispiece portrait of the author; additional frontispiece of the Libertas Americana medal; 256 pages; illustrated throughout and on 19 attractive lithographic plates of coins and currency printed in colors and metallic tints. Browned throughout; very good or so. Also included is a rare set of separately published plates for the book (wraps very worn, but plates acceptable), as well as a modern reproduction made for Bob Wester of a photograph of Dickeson with a Native American. Estimate $300. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15844 (realized $336).
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