Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 2078. Estimate $50.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Walcher de Molthein, L. (with A. Postolacca). Catalogue de la Collection des Médailles grecques. (Paris & Vienna, 1895). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Léopold Welzl de Wellenheim, vii, 295 pages, 30 photographic plates, 1 plate of monograms. In excess of 3310 Greek coins described, many illustrated. Un-cut and un-opened. Original printed paper wraps. Fair condition, covers chipped, plates separated from text. Contents clean, will benefit from re-binding.

Published by the coin dealers Rollin & Feuardent and A. Holzhausen, in the format of an auction catalogue, and sometimes mistaken as such. Actually the first part of an intended three part series publishing the complete Wellenheim-Walcher de Molthein collection (Wellenheim was Léopold’s maternal grandfather). The two subsequent volumes, of Roman and medieval coins, were never completed. Walcher de Molthein’s Greek collection was eventually sold by Adolph Cahn in 1901, who had a slightly different version of the catalogue printed.