Excerpt from Catalogue of a Private Collection of Gold, Silver and Copper Coins and Medals: Including a Choice Variety of Very Rare and Valuable United States Pattern Pieces, to Be Sold at Public Auction by Thos, Birch and Son. Auctioneers, No. 1110 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, on Tuesday Afternoon, April 12, 1870, at Half Past Three O'clock 1853 do. Scarce. 1859 brilliant proof. 1860; do. 1861; do. 1862; do. 1863; do. 1864; do. 1866; do. 1867; do. 1869; do. 1870; do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.