The Salton Collection, Part III, Coins of Portugal, Spain & Latin America, Coins of Great Britain, Scotland & the Commonwealth

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Coins of Portugal, Spain & Latin America
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The Mark & Lottie Salton Collection Part III
August 24, 2022
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Session A* Session B Session C* Session D*
World Coins Part 1 The Mark & Lottie Salton World Coins Part 2 Ancient Coins
featuring selections from Collection Part III featuring selections from Friday, August 26
the Augustana & Wednesday, August 24 the Augustana Collection 9:00 AM PT
Knepper Collections 9:00 AM PT & other British Properties Lots 33001-33123
Monday, August 22 Lots 31001-31345 Wednesday, August 24
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Lots 30001-30760 Lots 32001-32224
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World Coins Part 3 Ancient Coins & World Coins Part 2
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Lots 34001-34514
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Mark & Lottie Salton and Their Collection
Foreword by Harvey G. Stack
Over the years I have shared many stories of my family
and their decades as leaders in the rare coin business. In
1933, Joseph and Morton opened a shop on 6th Avenue and
23rd Street, creating what became one of the most successful
and influential numismatic firms of all time. Prior to World
War II, catalogs and price lists were studied by the two
brothers and this, along with interacting with some of the
most famous numismatists of the time, provided them a
perfect numismatic education.
Just five years earlier, in 1928, Felix Schlessinger started
his own numismatic and banking business in Berlin,
Germany, a thriving enterprise that was joined by Felix’s
son Max. Looking to escape anti-Jewish sentiment in the
Lottie and Mark Salton in 2001
1930s, Felix moved his family and business to Amsterdam.
There he continued this popular business until 1943
The Stack family continued their legacy of numismatic
when the Germans invaded the Netherlands’, attacked the
expertise in New York City when I joined the firm in 1947.
residents, and began confiscating their belongings. Max
After the war, Stack’s became a haven for many of the
went underground, resisting the occupiers, and relocated
numismatic dealers and collectors who came to New York
to Portugal where he worked with the Free Dutch Forces.
and other eastern cities. Among these was Mark Salton,
After the war, he moved to the United States where he
and we began a friendship that would last into the 21st
took the name Mark Salton. He earned a master’s degree
century.
in international banking at New York University, attained
In 1948, Mark met and married Lottie Aronstein, who
an executive post at Manufacturers Hanover Trust and
had also fled the Nazis as a teenager. They shared the
established himself as a part-time coin dealer under the
excitement of building significant, historical collections for
name of Mark M. Salton-Schlessinger.
decades. They also shared a mission to educate museums,
libraries, and collectors about numismatics. Mark remained
a full time banker, but he was passionate about building
his collection, which included great studies of the ancient
Greek and Roman series and classic European coins. He
traveled with Lottie worldwide to collect and learn about
the series he wanted to own, and Lottie became a superb
numismatist in her own right. When they were in New
York, they were frequent visitors at Stack’s Rare Coins, and
the friendship between the Saltons and the Stack family
continued to grow.
My son, Larry, joined the firm in 1973 adding another
generation to manage the Stack’s family business. As the
years went by, Larry and I often met with the Saltons at
Felix and Hedwig Schlessinger
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special lectures at the American Numismatic Society remained close friends and I will always cherish the time
annual meetings and dinners, as well as at conventions we spent together as warm family friends and numismatic
and shows we attended. It truly felt like a “family get colleagues.
together” and every gathering was enjoyed by all. Larry It is with great pleasure and respect to our dear friends
was very fortunate to have many numismatic “fathers the Saltons that we showcase their collections in a series
and grandfathers” in the business/hobby with Mark being of catalogs in conjunction with our European partners
one of the most prominent. Larry modeled his fabulous Künker. These presentations will be a lasting tribute to
Renaissance Collection after studying the exhibit the Mark and Lottie Salton, their incredible lives, and their
Saltons had on loan to Bowdoin College in Maine. Mark unwavering dedication to the numismatic hobby.
provided Larry with personal guidance and expertise until
Mark passed away. We often shared our enthusiasm for the
ANS and its efforts. Mark and Lottie always wanted to help
institutions to catalog and display their collections so that
viewers would have a better understanding of the coins and Harvey G. Stack
their history. Founder
Almost every year, Mark and Lottie would make a Stack's Bowers Galleries
charitable donation to some museum or institution  to
further educate those interested in medieval and ancient *This foreword was written by Harvey for the January
coins. Stack’s was pleased to provide the documentation 2022 auction catalog of Part I of the Salton Collection. He
and valuations for these incredible donations with our passed away on January 3, 2022, never having gotten the
compliments. To show their gratitude, Lottie would stop by chance to see the auction results of his friends’ Mark and
with rare bottles of wine for each of us. Over the years we Lottie’s coins.
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The Mark & Lottie Salton Collection
Mark and Lottie Salton have been well known in and immensely significant collections. The 345 lots in this
American numismatic circles since the 1950s—they were sale catalog are but a small fraction of the many thousands
active collectors and dealers as well as benefactors of of coins—ancient and modern—that will be put back into
numismatic and other educational institutions. Though the hands of collectors and museums over the course of a
probably little known to current generations of collectors, series of auction sales held by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in
their collections, built quietly in the post-war era when the United States and by Künker in Germany, a powerful
supply was flush and prices were a fraction of today’s auction duo chosen by Mark and Lottie themselves.
levels, are some of the finest to come to market in decades. Mark passed away in 2005, and Lottie in April 2020, and
This exquisite collection was put together through the their intention was that their coins were to be sold after they
knowledge and connections Mark built in his family’s pre- had both parted this life. As with just about everything in
war coin business in Germany, as well Lottie’s determined the world these days, the coronavirus pandemic delayed the
study of numismatics after meeting Mark in the late 1940s. reintroduction of the Salton Collection into the marketplace,
As numismatic bookseller David Fanning wrote in the so it was with much anticipation and excitement that Stack’s
introduction to Kolbe & Fanning’s auction of the Saltons’ Bowers Galleries received the collection in the summer of
numismatic library, “Mark and Lottie Salton represented 2021. Though Harvey and Larry had seen snippets of the
a transitional period in the numismatic trade, being direct collection over the years, as had others, even the Saltons’
links between the European dealers of the era before the closest numismatic friends didn’t know the true extent of
Second World War and the modern American coin trade of Mark and Lottie’s numismatic holdings. Boy, were we all
the post-war years.” in for a surprise! With over 8,000 pieces ranging from the
I knew the Saltons only vicariously through my mentors sublime to the obscure to the common, the collections were
Harvey and Larry Stack, who were long-time friends of the awe-inspiring to say the least.
Saltons and spoke warmly of their many encounters over As we studied the collections in greater depth in
the decades. And I knew them through the stories of Ira preparation for their sale at auction, the Saltons’ eye
Rezak, who was their close friend, and whose published for quality, rarity and pedigree stood out. Much of the
obituaries of both Mark and Lottie have informed much of collection was built with the goal of gathering together
what is generally known of the Saltons in public numismatic many numismatic masterpieces—both modern European
circles. and their ancient progenitors—in one place, while some
My entrée to the numismatic genius of the Saltons is from of the collections are more academic gatherings of ancient
first-hand knowledge of and exposure to their immense or modern types. Other sections are more commercial—
for example modern, common gold coins of the world and
other pieces which are undoubtedly items retained from
Mark’s days as a home-based part-time dealer of coins in
the 1950s and 1960s.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries will be selling the entirety of
the Saltons’ ancient Greek holdings, of which the first
part was offered in our record-setting January 2022 New
York International Numismatic Convention Auction,
to numismatists’ delight and amazement. The Saltons
collected not only ancient Greek coins (their Roman
collections will be sold by Künker), but they also collected
coins of the world, with a concentration on medieval and
modern European coins in gold and silver. As with the
ancient Greek, the coins of the world will delight due to
their superb quality and rarity. Stack’s Bowers Galleries sold
the Saltons’ small but incredibly powerful array of Polish
and Russian coinage in January 2022, while Kunker picked
up the gauntlet in March 2022 with a glittering offering of
European gold rarities in Part II of the Salton Collection.
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