理查德·奥古斯特收藏

罗德岛州钱币学家理查德·奥古斯特 (Richard August) 的著名收藏历经 60 多年的制作，将由 Stack's Bowers Galleries 展出

Costa Mesa, CA – After more than 60 years in the making, the famous collection of Rhode Island numismatist Richard August will be offered by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in a series of auctions in 2025 and 2026.

加利福尼亚州科斯塔梅萨——经过 60 多年的制作，罗德岛州钱币学家理查德·奥古斯特 (Richard August) 的著名藏品将由 Stack's Bowers Galleries 于 2025 年和 2026 年举行一系列拍卖会。

Known to his friends as Dick, August was a towering figure within the close-knit community of early American coin and medal enthusiasts. He was a pioneer in the fields of Betts medals and colonial paper money and an exacting builder of variety sets of most major pre-Federal copper series.

奥古斯特被朋友们称为迪克（Dick），他是美国早期硬币和奖章爱好者群体中的一位杰出人物。他是贝茨奖章和殖民地纸币领域的先驱，也是大多数主要的前联邦铜币系列的品种集的严格构建者。

Beginning decades ago, Dick was an early adopter of collecting colonial-era coins from Europe’s New World empires alongside coins more explicitly made for America. He came to focus on these coins with as much vigor as on their Redbook-listed counterparts, amassing important collections of coins from Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and the West Indies.

从几十年前开始，迪克是收集来自欧洲新世界帝国的殖民时代硬币以及更明确为美国制造的硬币的早期采用者。他开始像关注红皮书中列出的同类硬币一样关注这些硬币，收集了来自墨西哥、危地马拉、智利、秘鲁、玻利维亚和西印度群岛的重要硬币收藏。

Selections from August’s incredibly choice collections of coins from England, Ireland, and Scotland will be the first coins from the cabinet to be offered, slated for our January 2025 New York International Numismatic Convention sale.

来自英格兰、爱尔兰和苏格兰的 8 月份精选硬币收藏品将是内阁中的首批硬币，定于 2025 年 1 月的纽约国际钱币大会拍卖。

Richard August was well known as a numismatist and was a fixture at shows all over the country for decades, particularly those in his native New England.

理查德·奥古斯特是一位著名的钱币学家，几十年来一直是全国各地展览的常客，尤其是在他的家乡新英格兰。

Beyond his life in coins (a full-time passion since before he attended the University of Virginia in the late 1950s), Dick was a high-level math teacher and tutor, a distance runner and running coach, and a passionate practitioner of hobbies ranging from gardening to fish husbandry to shooting (he competed on the rifle team at UVa).

除了他的硬币生活之外（自 20 世纪 50 年代末进入弗吉尼亚大学之前，迪克就一直对硬币充满热情），他还是一名高级数学老师和导师、长跑运动员和跑步教练，以及各种爱好的热情实践者从园艺到养鱼再到射击（他参加了弗吉尼亚大学步枪队的比赛）。

His remarkable memory and knowledge base, as deep as it was broad, impressed his numismatic colleagues, but the collection his expertise allowed him to amass impressed his friends and rivals as well.

他卓越的记忆力和渊博的知识基础给他的钱币同事留下了深刻的印象，而他的专业知识让他积累的收藏也给他的朋友和竞争对手留下了深刻的印象。

Dick’s pre-Federal copper collections are among the finest ever assembled, with unique varieties present in the Connecticut, New Jersey, and Fugio series. Along with his Vermont, Massachusetts, Machin’s Mills, and other notable copper subcategories, these collections include classic rarities and Condition Census examples, alongside interesting die states and contemporary counterfeits.

迪克的联邦前铜系列是有史以来最好的铜系列之一，其中包括康涅狄格州、新泽西州和 Fugio 系列中的独特品种。除了他的佛蒙特州、马萨诸塞州、Machin's Mills 和其他著名的铜子类别之外，这些收藏还包括经典稀有品和状况普查样本，以及有趣的模具状态和当代赝品。

These were gathered through savvy cherrypicking and participation at major auctions dating back to the 1960s. His participation in the famous 1966 C.H. Stearns sale resulted in not only the expansion of his Massachusetts silver holdings, but also the acquisition of most or all of Stearns’ early American medals in a private transaction. This formed the basis of his highly important collections of Betts medals and Washingtoniana, and both series are replete with notable rarities.

这些都是通过精明的挑选和参与可追溯到 20 世纪 60 年代的大型拍卖会收集的。他参与了 1966 年著名的 CH Stearns 拍卖，不仅扩大了他在马萨诸塞州的白银持有量，而且还通过私人交易收购了 Stearns 的大部分或全部早期美国奖章。这构成了他非常重要的贝茨奖章和华盛顿奖章收藏的基础，这两个系列都充满了值得注意的稀有品。

His world coin holdings are extensive, with particularly notable collections from Latin America and the British Isles. Focused on the era of American colonization, roughly 1492 to 1830, Dick’s collection comprised impressive date runs of coins in every collectible denomination of copper and silver, with some gold highlights as well.

他收藏的世界硬币非常广泛，尤其是来自拉丁美洲和不列颠群岛的著名收藏。迪克的收藏集中于大约 1492 年至 1830 年的美国殖民时代，包括令人印象深刻的不同时期的铜币和银币，其中还包括一些金币。

His coins of the British Isles are notable for their quality; selections focused on 17th century coins of England, Ireland, and Scotland will be offered in the January 2025 NYINC sale.

他制作的不列颠群岛硬币以其品质而闻名。 2025 年 1 月的 NYINC 拍卖会上将提供以英格兰、爱尔兰和苏格兰 17 世纪硬币为主的精选作品。

Betts medals, Washingtoniana, and paper money are expected to cross the auction block in March /April 2025, followed by select Latin American, Fugio coppers, and more in Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ August 2025 Global Showcase auctions. A major offering of colonial coins is scheduled for the firm’s November 2025 official Whitman Expo Auction, held in cooperation with the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4).

Betts 奖牌、华盛顿州铜币和纸币预计将于 2025 年 3 月/4 月进行拍卖，随后精选的拉丁美洲铜币、Fugio 铜币等将在 Stack's Bowers Galleries 的 2025 年 8 月全球展示拍卖中亮相。该公司计划于 2025 年 11 月与殖民地硬币收藏家俱乐部 (C4) 合作举办惠特曼世博会官方拍卖会，出售大量殖民地硬币。

For more information on upcoming Stack’s Bowers Galleries auctions or to inquire about consigning call 800-458-4646 or email Info@StacksBowers.com.

有关即将举行的 Stack's Bowers Galleries 拍卖的更多信息或询问委托事宜，请致电 800-458-4646 或发送电子邮件至 Info@StacksBowers.com。