Excerpt from Catalogue of the Sixty-First Public Sale, Coins, Medals, Antiques of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, a Large Collection of Necklaces and Gems, Antique and Modern Jewelry, Cameos, Curios, a Shekel of Simon Maccabaeus: Rare Canadian Sou Tokens, an Almost Unique Variety of Twenty-Five Cent Fessenden Fractional Note, Bearing Spinners Autograph on the Reverse, Colonial Coins, Foreign and American Medals, Foreign Crowns, Etc., Etc., More Than 900 Lots; April 12, 1912

The coins include an interesting assortment, Ancient and Modem, with Rare and Fine United States Cents and Half Cents, Foreign Crowns, Rare Canadian Boquet Sou Tokens, a Jewish Shekel of Simon Maccabaeus, a fine assemblage of Napoleon. \vashington and other medals; in paper money an almost unique variety of the twenty-five cent Fessenden note, bearing the auto graph of F. E. Spinner on the reverse.

In view of the many fraudulent auction sales of jewelry and gems held nowadays, it should be here stated that the cataloguer will stand bv his catalogue descriptions. When he says a scarab is a genuine antique, it is genuine, and when he says a ring is gold, it is gold. At many sales it is common usage for the auc tioneer to get up and state before commencing that the good will be sold 'as is' and not as they are catalogued.

But one session will be held, commencing promptly at o'clock in the afternoon.

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