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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 2164. Estimate $100. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007. 
Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Folkes, M. A Table of English Silver Coins from the Norman Conqueft to the Prefent Time. (London, 1745). 162 pages. Pages 144-155 discuss Scottish coins, pages 156-162 are addenda and errata // [bound with] A Table of English Gold Coins from the Eighteenth Year of King Edward the Third, when Gold was firft coined in England, to the prefent Time. (London, reprinted 1745). 12 pages. Quarto, calfskin with raised bands and morocco spine title. Fair condition, covers detached and flaking.



The endpapers, front and back, are covered with seven pages of detailed hand-written notes in an 18th century hand, listing other works by Folkes, miscellaneous subjects pertaining to English coins, and especially a detailed account of the history of this publication, from 1724, when the first notes on the subject were gathered for the Society of Antiquaries, to the 1763 posthumous publication of the complete work with 67 engraved plates. The plates were not included in this first edition. The first page of notes is prefaced by the initials H.D.D. presumably the author.