eAuction #51 - Literature sale III - closed




Lot 117. Egger: XLI. Sammlung...vormals Dr. Fenerly Bey, 18 November 1912

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Egger: XLI. Sammlung...vormals Dr. Fenerly Bey, 18 November 1912

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Bidding closed (Sunday, September 25th, 19:58:30 CEST)
Current time: Saturday, May 11th, 21:47:04 CEST

Price realised: CHF 160.00 (10 bids)
Approx. EUR 163.75 / USD 176.50 / GBP 140.93

High bidder: Bidder 6

eAuction #51 - Literature sale III, Lot 117. Estimate: CHF 70.00

Egger, Brüder. Vienna, 18 November 1912. Nr. XLI. Auctions-Katalog Sammlung Mme Ch[ristitch] vormals Dr. Fenerly Bey etc. Griechische, römische und byzantinische Münzen. 1400 lots, 27 plates. 4to, recent quarter tan leather binding, brown spine letters, original card covers and extra blank pages bound in. Front card cover chipped, repaired and faded; first few pages repaired at lower corner not affecting text. Interior Good.
CS 1717, Spring 156

A note from BCD: Among the classic Egger sales, no serious library of Greek coin auction catalogues can be without it. There are many nice and rare coins illustrated but my eye always stops at lot 467, eventually acquired by E. S. G. Robinson for Gulbenkian. All my collecting years I searched for a nice specimen of this “Pheneos Master” obverse die and the only ones I could find were BCD Lokris-Phokis 77 and 457.6, two very unattractive specimens. I remember writing to the late Jean Vinchon and asking him if there was a chance for the coin he sold as lot 491 in his 22 May 1959 auction to be bought from the buyer and put back into auction. Monsieur Jean’s personal reply, typed on fine quality paper under his elegant company letterhead, was that this particular coin was not available but there are many others to choose from on the next time I would pay him a visit…




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