"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

NGC certified MS 63 1927 St. Gaudens $20 gold piece.

PCGS certified 1908 St. Gaudens $20 gold piece: MS 64 / No Motto/ Rough Rider Hoard with photo as Theodore Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform.

In original mint packaging. Designed by John Mercanti, this .900 fine silver dollar commemorates Ellis Island as the "Gateway to America."...

Lot of two wonderful presentations issued by the United States Mint in 2004: the Lewis &Clark Coin & Pouch Set, featuring a proof Lewis &...

Locking wooden box (15 x 13 x 7 inches) with 48 silver U. S. Half dollars in cardboard boxes shaped like ingots. Three coins to box, 16 boxes. The ye

Bank notes: Bank of Argentina 500 pesos Pick#303c (1976-83). Six packs of 100 crisp uncirculated sequentially numbered notes. Argentina

Bank notes of Argentina: eight packs of 100 crisp uncirculated sequentially numbered notes: Pick#304c (1976-83) Bank of Argentina 1000 Pesos. Argen

Bank notes Bank of Argentina: Pick#3035b (1977-83) 5000 Pesos: unopened brick of 10 packs of 100 crisp uncirculated sequentially numbered notes. Five

Crisp uncirculated bank notes from Belarus: Pick#1,6-8,11, 25-26; Sokapeck 25,50, 100 1000, Rublei 50 and 100 (1992-2000). 100 each of seven different

Bank notes of Bolivia & Brazil: four packs of 100 each crisp uncirculated sequentially numbered notes: Pick#147 Bank of Bolivia 100 Bolivares (L...

Bank notes of Bolivia & Brazil: five packs each with 100 crisp uncirculated sequentially numbered notes. 1) Pick#147: Bank of Bolivia 100 Boliv...

Crisp uncirculated bank notes: Bulgaria Pick#100; 20 leva (100 pieces), Yugoslavia Pick#81A, 5 dmara (200 pieces), Iran Pick #140G, 100 rials (100 pie

Crisp uncirculated bank notes of Cambodia Pick#8C 100 riels (1957-75); Pick#17 1000 riels (1973); and Laos Pick#8A 1 kip (1962), 500 pieces each.

Bank notes of Croatia Pick#26A and 27A, 50,000 and 100,000 Dinara Republic of Croatia, one pack each of 100 sequentially numbered crisp uncirculated n

Crisp uncirculated bank notes of Iceland: Pick#48A, 10 Kronur (1981), 400 pieces. Iceland

Bank notes of Turkey Pick#189A Central Bank of Turkey (Law 1970), two packs of crisp uncirculated notes, most sequentially numbered. Turkey

Bank notes of Zambia Pick#24C, 2 kwacha (signature 7/1980-88), pack of 100 crisp uncirculated sequentially numbered notes. Zambia

Crisp uncirculated bank notes of Zambia Pick#24C & 25D, 2 and 5 kwacha (1980-88). 100 pieces each. Zambia

Bank of Biafra one pound bank notes #5a (Pick) - E1 (1968-9), crisp UNC, 500 pieces. The Republic of Biafra, was a partially recognised secessionist

British Armed Forces Special Vouchers: PM36 one pound notes (1962) Fourth series, five unopened packs of 100, crisp uncirculated, sequentially numbere

British Armed Forces Special Vouchers: PM44, 45, 46: 5 pence, 10 pence, 50 pence (1972). Sixth series pack of 100 each, crisp uncirculated, sequential

British Armed Forces Special Vouchers: PM44, 5 pence (1972). Sixth series unopened brick of 1000 crisp uncirculated, sequentially numbered notes.

British Armed Forces Special Vouchers: PM45 5 new pence (1972). Sixth series unopened brick of 1000, crisp uncirculated, sequentially numbered notes.

British Armed Forces Special Vouchers: PM22 one pound (1948). Second series unopened brick of 1000, crisp uncirculated sequentially numbered notes.

British Armed Forces Special Vouchers: PM46 50 new pence (1972). Sixth series unopened brick of 1000, crisp uncirculated, sequentially numbered notes.

British Armed Forces Special Vouchers: PM29 one pound (1956). Third series unopened brick of 1000, crisp uncirculated sequentially numbered notes.

Crisp uncirculated bank notes: Ecuador Pick#108B 5 sucres (1982); Pick#113C 5 Sucres (1980). 100 pieces each. Ecuador

17 pieces of Fractional currency 1839-1864 including the Confederate States of America. 1839 6 1/4c Farmer's Bank of VA "Pieces of Eight&q...

Crisp uncirculated pack of 100 5 cedi notes (1977); Pick #15B. Ghana

Four pieces of obsolete currency: 1) City Bank of New Haven, Connecticut $5 remainder note, CU, steamship vignette. 2) Cochituate Bank Boston, Massach

Lot of six one dollar silver certificates: three series 1928A and three series 1928B. All are circulated: G-F condition.

Leather coin & currency belt with two buckle clasp in back 32.5" x 3". c. 1890-1900. Has been worn. Please inspect.

Two early Arizona scrip notes. These are issued by Safford, Hudson & Company Bankers. There is one $10 and one $20. These are in MINT condition....

Two early Arizona scrip notes. These are issued by Safford, Hudson & Company Bankers. There is one $10 and one $20. These are in MINT condition....

Four early Arizona scrip notes. These are issued by Safford, Hudson & Company Bankers. There are two $10 and two $20. These are in MINT conditio...

Four documents illustrating the corporate changes and possible address changes for a building that never moved. Two different Kellogg & Hewston ...

Book, Tables of the Value of Gold and Silver by Thomas Price. A.J. Leary printing 1881. 9 3/8 x7î, Only three copies exist. Price operation...

1) 1876 letterhead from Kruse & Euler in San Francisco. 209 & 211 Front Street. To Frank Litsch of Shasta. "The package of gold dust st...

Seven documents, mostly all from the 1870s. Three bullion deposits, 1876, 1877, 1878. With the 1877 and 1878 pieces, the agent, curiously, is Ballou,

Two very rare USAO Boise gold bullion receipts. Both are from the Rocky Bar placer mine, amalgam. Both deposits are very small, 8.61 and 24.29 troy o

Scott RN-D1. Helena Montana. Banking house of L. H. Hershfield & Brother draft drawn on Donnell, Lawson & Co., New York and payable $320 in ...

Rare in issued form! Inc. in Montana. No. 127, issued for 7,310 shares to WD Smith in 1891. Signed by president Henry Hill and secretary Geo. Hill. Pe

October 9th 1876 William Walker deposited $81.50 and received this certificate of deposit from the Carson City Savings Bank, with an eagle vignette at

Unique collection of documents regarding b ullion deposits at the USAO New York. These documents in themselves are vey rare, and to have a collection

Rare Philadelphia Mint gold deposit, 1876 submitted by E.W. Clarke & Co from Colorado amalgam (18.69 ozs). Note on obverse states: Gold Dust rec...

About 100 proof vignettes across many genres. Coats of arms, sailboats, Yellowstone Falls, fire apparatus, pyramids, ship harbor, buildings and more.

20+ ancient and Roman coin references. Also Israel, Byzantine, Caulonia, Greek etc. 17 lbs.

8 Canada coin reference books, 1970 and 1974 Standard Catalogue, Guide Book of Canadian coins etc., 1955-58 catalogues, Canada's Money by Kleebe...

22 European coin publications, no Great Britain. Russia, Poland, Spain, Swiss, Tuscany, French etc. Europe

9 gold coin catalogs. Sotheby's, Kosoff, Frank Sternberg, Gold Munsen Intl., William Youngerman.

Sotheby's 1993 3 different, Numismatic Fine Arts 2 different.

12 named coin collection catalogs. Boyd, Brand & Ryder, Russel Patterson, Kensington, Ebenezer Milton Saunders, Ezra Cole, Wyatt, Hoke S Green e...

Ted Craige Library by Kolbe, Olla Podrida Catalogue III by Kolbe, Katen Numismatic Library 1994-96 by Johnson.

Two catalogues from the June, 1995 Sotheby's New York auctions of the famous collection of High Relief St. Gaudens $20 gold pieces. Prices real...

3 rare references Mormon Money by McGarry, 2 different. California Gold by Lee.

Hardcover Coinage Laws of the United States1792-1894, 1894 printing by GPO, 847pp with foldout. Laws of the United States Related to the Coinage, 1904

7 colonial coin references. Copper Coins of Vermont, Struck Copies of Early American Coins, Colonial Coins and Tokens, Silver Coinage of Massachusetts

One page letter sent from Greenway & Co. of Baltimore, Aug. 29, 1850 to Ludlow Beebee & Co. in Philadelphia. Message states that they have s...

California State Agricultural Society Silver Award medal. 1911 Larson & Co. die awarded in 1911 to Pacific Hardware and Steel Company for Horse ...

Lot of 2x Liberty head Spiel Marke store cards from Thurnauer & Zinn importers of baskets, toys and fancy goods. San Francisco California

Lot of 5 different U.S. $10 spiel markes. Obverse varieties: 1025, 1035, 1045, 1055, 1065.

Button shaped silver ingot marked: Arizona / A. F. E. / 1882. 21 mm in diameter; 7 mm thick; 20.3 grams. Arizona

Very rare. H. Harris, along with his partner D. Marchand, had ingots found on the SS Central America. This letterhead lists his offices at the top: Sa

An assayer book with latest valuations of silver and gold at different degrees of fineness, as of October 1, 1878 for John Taylor & Company of ...

Lot of 2. 1) Certificate of Special Deposit, Bank of California, San Francisco Sep. 28, 1874. A. Austin has deposited $50,000 in US Gold Coin (over a

Chemical Laboratory & General Mining Offices Letter sheet ñ J. S. Phillips ñ Located at 702 California St. San Francisco. Earlier in 1...

Envelope addressed to J.H. Stearns, Kellogg Hewston Co. Assayers – cancellation from Oswego, N.Y. 3-cent pink Washington stamp. Size: 5.375 x

Duncan, Sherman & Co. and Alsop & Co., Assay Office and Gold and Silver Refinery, San Francisco, CA, 1-Mar-1860. No. 8 Memorandum of Gold Bu...

E. Lewin & Co Assay Office Receipt, Shasta, CA, March 4, 1869 - Memorandum of Gold Bullion deposited with E. Lewin & Co., by C.C. Bush, Merc...

Assay Office of Geo. E. Rogers, Successor to G.W. Bell, San Francisco, CA, October 14, 1868, No. 4682 Memorandum of Gold Bullion deposited by Hobart,

Geo. E. Rogers, Successor to Assay Office of Sanderson & Co., San Francisco, CA, Assay receipt dated Oct. 3, 1866, for 11.67 ounces of Gold from...

Tables of the Value of Gold and Silver per Once Troy, at Different Degrees of Fineness. Also tables showing the net returns from gold and silver of di

Extremely rare; only a few known. Ex. John J. Ford Collection. Memorandum of Gold Bullion, San Francisco, April 6th, 1868. Thirty-one ounces deposited

Very rare; possibly unique. Ex. John J. Ford Jr. Collection. Memorandum of Gold Bullion deposited at Hentsch & Berton's Assay Office. Dateli...

J.A. Mars California Assay Office, 512 California Street, San Francisco Oct. 24, 1872 ñ Letterhead to H.C. Egerton ñ Describes a sample of...

J. A. Mars California Assay Office, 512 California Street, San Francisco ñ November 21, 1871 - No.1042 Memorandum of Assay ìof Sample of O...

San Francisco, California Gold Rush Assay Office Receipt E. Justh refinery 1859 - Fancy printing on this receipt for gold bullion. “Assay off

A marvelous colecion of assay receipts for gold for the monster assayer building built for Kellogg & Humbert at 416 Montgomery Street, and so cl...

Nevada Metallurgical Works Letterhead and Envelope ñ Assayers E. Huhn and C.A. Luckhardt, San Francisco, CA, Dated February 21st, 1876 ñ L...

Bullion deposited with Pacific Refinery and Bullion Exchange for Refining June 18, 1879. Deposit #3531 from Krause & Euler and F. Litsch of Shas...

Extremely rare. Memorandum of Gold Bullion Deposited at Peterson & Trinius' Assay Office, No. 124 Sacramento Street. Dateline San Francisco,...

Riehn, Hemme & Co., Assay Office, San Francisco, CA, Jan 4, 1865 - No. 1735 Assay Receipt. for gold bullion bar deposited by Wells Fargo and Com...

Two Memorandums of Gold Bullion deposited at the Assay Office of S. Molitor & Co. Both from C.T.H. Palmer one dated March 10, 1863, the other Fe...

Thomas Price & Son, Assayers & Refiners, San Francisco, CA, 12-May 1899 - No. 788 Deposit of ìUnretorted Amalgam, Very Dirtyî Made...

Thomas Priceís Assay Office and Chemical Laboratory, San Francisco, CA, December 22, 1877 - Memorandum #3389 of Bullion deposited for Assay of ...

Thomas Price Analytical Chemist, Assayer and Bullion Melter ñ Chemical Laboratory, Assay Offices, Bullion Rooms & Ore Floors ñ Dated S...

Thomas Priceís Assay Office and Chemical Laboratory, San Francisco Business Card- Located at 524 Sacramento St. in San Francisco. Shows Rates f...

Thomas Priceís Assay Office and Chemical Laboratory, San Francisco, CA, November 6, 1878. Certificate of Assay of sulphurets deposited by Mr. W...

Curtis, Perry & Ward Memoranda of Gold Bullion, San Francisco, 1853. Exceptionally rare. No. 4400. Deposit by ZS Almy(?) in Sept. 1853. Deposit ...

In 3 pieces. Correspondence on letterhead of John Hewston, Analytical chemist and Metn interesting set in that it the first document is datelined Colu

This is tied Virginia City, the motherlode of silver ingots! Rare Solid Silver Gold & Silver (G&S) Mining Company stock certificate No. 281 ...

Triangular piece of copper, 1/4 inch think, with punched letters" Triangle 5 Soloon (sic) 5// 5 Rawhide, Nev.// One 5 Bet 5// 5 Five Dollars 2...

In addition to being extremely rare (possibly unique), this assay certificate tells an interesting story. It is for a deposit of low grade ore from th

Extremely rare; only known example of this assay document. Assay certificate dated Sept. 22nd, 1868, for a deposit by OS Carville for the Summit Mill.

First Edition sterling silver proofs in specially-postmarked commemorative cachets with stamps, postmarked from 1973 through 1981. It took eight years

Picture of the largest engraved Gold Ingot in existence, from the 25TH TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE AT DENVER, CO. 1892. Original ingot sold by Holabird. Engra

Manhattan Silver Mining Company of Nevada Austin. Stagecoach Robbery Letter, Silver Bars stolen.– One page letter on the Manhattan Silver Min

Tables of the Value of Gold and Silver per Ounce Troy: at Different Degrees of Fineness. with other Tables, which will be found useful to Bankers, Ass

"John J. Ford, Jr. and the "Franklin Hoard," by Karl V. Moulton; 2013, hardcover, 903 pages. A well documented insight into John J. F...

Designed by the famous Nahl Brothers. Dies executed by Albrecht Kuner. Very rare. Obv: Progress / Genius / Inventio; Rev.: Awarded / By The / Mechan