Mark your calendars, because Stack’s Rare Coins New York Americana Sale is set to take place January 26-27 at Stack’s auction gallery on 57th street.
“Coins are the most unerring and best preserved monuments of the ancient world and are historical records of supreme value, telling as they do of vanished cities long forgotten; giving portraits and names of rulers otherwise unknown, and standing as reflections of the time and country that issued them; that they reveal the religious belief of the ancient peoples and record the changing religious views of all the nations of the world during the last 2,500 years; that ancient and modern coins illustrate the history of art from its earliest stages of development to its highest excellence, thence to its gradual decline and almost total eclipse during the darkness and turmoil of the Middle Ages and to its rise since the dawn of the Renaissance; and in short, that coins are of the highest value to the historian, the student of comparative religion, the artist, the poet, the architect, and the man of letters,” wrote Harry Earl Montgomery in The Numasmatist in 1914.
The Americana Sale will feature over 3,000 lots of U.S. coins, paper money, medals, tokens, and Americana. Notable properties to be sold include the Clem Schettino Collection of New Jersey Coppers, items from the Museum of the Fur Trade, the Alan Bleviss Collection of Civil War Tokens, Part III, and medals from the personal collection of Charles E. Barber.
Descriptions of items of interest from Stack’s ensue.
