Item #5448 EARLY AMERICAN CENTS, 1793–1814. AN EXERCISE IN DESCRIPTIVE CLASSIFICATION WITH TABLES OF RARITY AND VALUE. William H. Sheldon, the collaboration of H. K. Downing, M H. Sheldon.
EARLY AMERICAN CENTS, 1793–1814. AN EXERCISE IN DESCRIPTIVE CLASSIFICATION WITH TABLES OF RARITY AND VALUE.

EARLY AMERICAN CENTS, 1793–1814. AN EXERCISE IN DESCRIPTIVE CLASSIFICATION WITH TABLES OF RARITY AND VALUE.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. 8vo, original tan cloth, gilt; jacket. xvi, 339, (1) pages; 51 plates. Ex Floyd B. Newell, with his bookplate. Near fine with jacket showing some wear and small tears. Item #5448

Though it has been surpassed by more recent scholarship, this remains one of the greatest books ever written about U.S. federal issues. Voted as one of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society’s “One Hundred Greatest Items of United States Numismatic Literature.” Clain-Stefanelli 12341. Davis 929. Grierson 221.

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