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The coin collector (1896)

Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913 · London : G. Redway · leaf 40

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t might be pre-sumptuous to attempt to decide. Even condition is arelative term. The auctioneer tells you that a pieceis fmefor the coin;,1 and this is apt to be most truewhen a coin has been struck on impure material by anunskilful moneyer, or when, as in so many of the colo-nial coins of all… … Collotype, James Hyatt, 47, Gt. Russell Street, w.r VALUE OF COINS the United States; and when one reflects that a privatecabinet can be little more than a selection of specimens,it would appear to be very possible to reject exampleswhich are undesirable on this account, if the object issimply to…

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