THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

VALUE OF COINS
auctioneer and the company, if they are not unanimous
on any other point, agree in loving a departed celebrity ;
for if there were one or two tiresome traits in his gene-
rally faultless character, these are things of the past
he can play no more tricks.
Although the question of prices may be a moot one,
and the uncertainty attending the product of any given
coin under the hammer is, from an infinite variety of
causes, as great as it is inexplicable, it has been thought
best, on the whole, to attempt to meet the case to a
certain extent, and in a section which we call Tlie Coin
Market, we have essayed to reduce to an intelligible
form some statistics bearing on this topic, with a few
particulars, which may be of interest and use, of a
cognate character.
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