Excerpt from Sale No. 31, Auction Sale of United States and Foreign Coins, May 1st., 1943: At the Philadelphia Art Galleries Notice TO bidders - A11 bids are entered as received and lots distributed to the highest bid der. When two or more bids are the same the first received gets the lot. When two or more unlimited bids on a certain lot are received, the first one received gets the lot at an advance of five per cent over the highest bid. I will buy for you as much under your bids as the next highest bid will per mit. I execute your bids faithfully. Forward your bids as early as possible. Be sure that you bid on the lot you desire and at so much per piece. Where the number of pieces in a lot is not given after the description, these are sold as one lot. Bids must reach me by the morning of sale. Posi tively no change of these terms will be made. 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.