Photocopied archive of documents relating to the Sultan of Muscat-Childs-Pogue specimen of the 1804 silver dollar, and other matters relating to the Walter H. Childs Collection.A binder of photocopies includes enlargements of the famous silver dollar along with copies of known documents relating to this coin. These range from an April 1879 letter from C.A. Watters to Jeremiah Colburn mentioning the coin, to post-sale correspondence between the Pogues, and various people regarding their purchase. There are copies of letters bearing the letterheads of the U.S. Treasury Department, the American Numismatic Society, R. Green (a Chicago coin dealer), Numismatic Gallery, Spink & Son, Ltd., Frederick Childs, Auctions by Bowers and Merena, and others. A carbon copy of the original auction invoice from 1999 is also present. There are copies of approximately 30 letters, and other items. The archive also includes approximately 60 photocopied pages of correspondence from the Childs family archives relating to the dollar, and approximately another 150 photocopied pages relating to other coins in the Childs Collection. The Childs documents are mostly from the 1940s and 1950s. While the items described here are only photocopies of the originals, it is anticipated that the original documents, which D. Brent Pogue painstakingly worked to assemble, will forever remain with the coin and unavailable to anyone without the financial resources to purchase the coin itself. As such, this is an unusually important set of copies. There is also a presentation edition of the August 1999 <em>Walter H. Childs Collection</em> auction catalog by Bowers and Merena. This is the black cover hardbound version, with a presentation bookplate to D. Brent Pogue inside the front cover. On the front flyleaf, there is a penned personal inscription to Brent from Q. David Bowers in his customary blue ink. Finally, there is a copy of Q. David Bowers’ book, <em>The Rare Silver Dollars Dated 1804 and the Exciting Adventures of Edmund Roberts</em>. (Total: 1 binder, approximately 210 loose pages, 1 catalog; 1 book)From the D. Brent Pogue Library.
