Lot 154. Rassion, 28 March 1981

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Rassion, Mme J.M. Aix-les-Bains, 28 March 1981. 487 lots, 5 colour plates, illustrations throughout. Glossy red illustrated card covers. Bent corners. Very Good.

A note from BCD: A little known catalogue of an auction that was a one-off attempt of Credit de la Bourse’s Mme Rassion to conduct a sale in the well-known resort of Aix-les-Bains. The catalogue starts with a selection of ancients that is followed by French and foreign. The“hors texte” colour plates have a rather garish red background that does not do justice to the coins but what steals the show, in the opinion of this writer, is the famous Edmond de Goncourt quotation from his will, displayed in large print after the tenth page. If all firms producing auction catalogues would follow suit and print this wonderful aphorism, or its excellent translation that appeared in the 60’s in a Seaby Bulletin, then perhaps ancient coin collectors would be viewed today under a different light.