field, 6.50; another without this (Crosby, Plate VIII, No. 15,) 5.50. Pattern Pieces. Half Dollar of '38, spread eagle, 5.80; do. flying eagle, 5.60. Set of coinage of 1868, from $20. to one cent, 16 pieces br. pr. aluminum, 25. Longacre's Dollar, 1871, (brought 24 in Jenks' sale) sold for 18; set of Trade Dollars, 1873, 6 pieces, br. pr. 29. Many other pieces, which we have no room to refer to, brought very good i prices. The sale was very successful, and the palmy days of the older dealers seem to have returned,! when we look over the priced catalogue. FROSSARD'S FIFTEENTH SALE. Mr. E. Frossard opened the new season with his Fifteenth Coin sale, held at the rooms of Bangs & Co., New York, on the ninth of September. The Catalogue, 36 pages, and 759 lots, which was prepared! by himself, included a varied assortment of Coins and Medals, especially some rare and fine Luther coins, double, triple and quadruple crowns, which brought good prices. We quote a few of the larger amounts paid for some of these pieces: Half Dollar of 1802, v. g. 6.60; Wreath Cent, '93, Levick, No. 5, f. 6; Medal of the Vienna Numis. Soc. 1880, copper, 5; Rose noble, Edward III., rare variety, 13.30; Half noble, do. 6. 10: Rose noble, Henry V. 14; Angel, Henry VIII. plugged, but f. and r. 7.10; Double Crown of Leopold of Austria, 1626, 6.40; another of Ferdinand, n. d. 6.60; do. 5.75; Triple crown of Ferdinand II. 1622, 10; do. for Styria, 1631, 7.75; Maximilian, Gr. Master Teutonic Order, 10.50; Triple crown of Frederic Ulrich, 1618, v. f. and r. 13.50; Quadruple Crown of Christian Ludwig, 1654, 15; Several others of similar size and age, from 6.50 to 13. Coronation Medal, Alexander of Russia, 7.75. This was silver, size 41, and weighed over 4 1-2 ounces. For a medal of such size and variety, this was a very low price, and a bargain for the purchaser. Spanish double crowns, 1623, 8.75, and 1694, 8; an 1801 cent, unc. (No. 459 Harzfield Nov. Sale, 1880) sold for 10.30. Several of the earlier volumes of the Journal sold at prices varying from 3 to 5.50, the latter for Vol. VI. Other lots brought satisfactory prices. EDITORIAL. THE death of Mr. Wм. E. DuBors of Philadelphia, whose life-long work in the field of Numismatics and kindred sciences has made his name familiar to students and scientific men, in other lands as well as our own, has occurred since the last issue of the Journal. On another page will be found a feeling and truthful tribute to his memory. He was ever a welcome con tributor to this Magazine, and we shall long miss his lively pen, which was ever ready to aid us, and interest our readers. Of his services in the U. S. Mint, it is unnecessary here to speak: we recall the name of no man who has won a wider fame as an assayer, or one more deserved; and his analyses were uniformly perhaps as nearly perfect as human skill could make them. 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