COIN, STAMP, RARE BOOK, AUTOGRAPH, NEWSPAPER, MAP, EPHEMERA, ANTIQUE DEALERS & COLLECTORS!
$10 Million
Inventory Sale of a Virtual Museum. Get your heirloom of history today!
The entire inventory of the Lupia Philatelic and Numismatic Library is for sale. This includes coins, tokens, medals, paper money, continental currency, store cards, encased postage stamps, rare books and periodicals, incunabula leaves, original art, private correspondence, antique maps, antiquities, antique mail from the 16th to 20th centuries, many from famous people including Enrico Caruso and other equally famous notables, rare first day covers of 1893, stock of half cents, and exonumia, medieval items, four carat baguette emerald, ancient Roman votive figure relief on block, cylinder seal, early Renaissance parchment will of an aristocrat of Florence and rival of the Medici family, and antique maps, Ptolomeic book of the dead on linen fragment, much more. Do not hesitate to ask. Write john@numismaticmall.com
NumismaticMall.com was created by John N. Lupia, III in 2011 to promote global and American cultural heritage through the study of philatelics and its subdivision numismatics in the fields of stamp and coin collecting and its industry. Bringing new life to America's past. Obviously, the choice of the website name Numismaticmall.com was a shortened version of Numismaticandphilatelicmall.com which is unwieldy for anyone. Numismatic was chosen over that of philatelic after a market study showed in 2011 that a greater potential market existed for an online business using it since there were far more sites for stamps and covers that had already saturated the market.
This website features The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Numismatic and Philatelic Biographies created by John N. Lupia, III about 1990 and began to make it a public outsource in 2011. It contains thousands of entries in the original manuscript. Only about three hundred and fifty or so have been extracted and posted on this website so far. None of them are complete in themselves but only unedited rough drafts of a partial text given freely as an outsource since the original plan was to issue a quarterly : The Journal of Collecting in America, where biographies are as complete as my data has taken me.
The original design of the work is a multivolume Encyclopedic Dictionary of Numismatic and Philatelic Biographies, designed as a reference tool for numismatists and researchers in various fields including : historians, archaeologists, art historians, museum curators, librarians, antique dealers, and so on. The title is borrowed from Howard Lawrence Hurwitz, An Encyclopedic Dictionary of American History (New York : Washington Square Press, 1968).
Each biography is typically illustrated with items in the Lupia Philatelic and Numismatic Library. When the reader spots an item labeled "Courtesy Lupia Numismatic Library" it is owned by John N. Lupia, III, and can be purchased by contacting him at john@numismaticmall.com. Please Note, not all items in the Lupia Numismatic Library are exhaustively used to illustrate these articles. Many other items are in the Lupia Collection not shown here and everything is for sale. So ask if you don't see it. We are always updating the website daily a policy begun in May 2025. So, if you do not see it yet just ask. The Lupia Philatelic and Numismatic Library has well over 50,000 philatelic covers rich in postal history and the majority, i.e., at least 35,000 covers are of numismatic and philatelic history involving dealers and collectors. The value of these items have a very broad range from $35 to $100,000. If you are new to this field of collecting and are not familiar with market prices on covers, letters and postal cards, consult Robert A. Siegel, H.R. Harmar, Schuyler Rumsey, Kelleher, James McCusker, Stack's Bowers, Heritage, or any of the auction houses for closed prices. Do not hesitate to ask if you are searching for something in particular.
Note on some of the descriptors : For example, "Excessively rare" is neither a comical nor a redundant expression, but aims to refine for the astute collector or connoisseur the degree or rarity within a specific field. Mathematically expressed and phrased it is what the astute call "Relative Rarity". Rarity is a subject of which I can write a book since it certainly would take a monograph to teach the myriad of principles that come into play.
Retired University Professor of Archaeology and Art History, Library Manager, Information Scientist, Fellow of Rutgers, Award Winning Artist, Internally Renown Archaeologist, Art Historian, Art, Antique, Numismatic, Philatelic and Real Estate Appraiser, Dealer in Stamps, Postal History Covers, U. S., Foreign & Ancient Coins, Medals, Tokens, Paper Money, Scrip, Rare Books, Numismatic & Philatelic Literature, Maps, Art, Antiquities, Antiques, and Curios. Appraising, Buying & Selling Since 1964
Life Member APS Research Library, Member APS #220936, Member ANA #1139579
john@numismaticmall.com
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$10 Million Inventory Sale of a Virtual Museum
