How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX

[NUMISMATICS]. Coin Supplement to Thompson’s Bank Note and Commercial Reporter… New York: J. Thompson, Banker and Broker, [ca. 1853]. 4to (275 x 195 mm). Illustrated with numerous engraved images of gold and silver coins. Near contemporary plain wrappers (wrappers worn, chipped, soiled, leaves toned, foxed, edgeworn and chipped, all with a small hole for a clip at the upper corner). On the inner rear wrappers is a neatly written contemporary manuscript page, “Value of U. S. Dollar in” with numerous entries of U.S. Dollar values in other countries. Sheet is approximately 205 x 127 mm. Sheet is affixed to wrapper at upper margin. Some of the countries listed include: “Arabia = 1 Piastre, 16 caveers”, “Austria = 2 fluorine, 7 ? Kreut”, “Central Amer. = 1 peso, 7 centavos”, “China = 6 miace [?], 2 candareius [?]”, Persia = 5 Kran”, and more.