Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of a Collection of Coins, Medals, Tokens, Fractional Currency, Old Bank Notes, Etc., Belonging Principally to the Widow of a Deceased Collector: To Be Sold at Auction, at the Rooms of the Collector's Club, 351 Fourth Avenue, New York City, Wednesday, June 23d, 1897 Foreign. Many countries. All sizes foreign and U. Poor cents and half cents, poor colonials. Some good hard times tokens. 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.