Bitler
Served in the Navy during WWII.
Assembled an important collection of large cents beginning in 1940's. He sold the collection to Abe Kosoff in August 1960. Kosoff offered a group of 410 pieces for $18,000. The remnants of the collection were sold at auction by A-Mark March 17, 1973. In 1965 he began a serious collection of cone shells.
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![U.S. Cents, 1793-94, [Vol. 1 : Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s].](https://archive.org/services/img/uscents179394vol00bitl)
1950U.S. Cents, 1793-94, [Vol. 1 : Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s].
[4 notebooks,Contains inventories, photographs, clippings, and notes regarding United States large cents collected by Bitler in the late 1940s and 1950s. Volumes 1 and 2 contain illustrations cut from standard catalogs and actual photographs of large cents covering the years 1793-1814; volume 3 contains over 100 photos of large cents 1815-1857 with text from sales catalogs pasted in; and volume 4 is the inventory of the original collection with cost codes and provenance,ARCHIVES,Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s, Archives, American Numismatic Society,Worthington S. Bitler (1900-1987) was a collector of United States large cents. His collection was sold to Abe Kosoff in 1960 and pieces were sold by A-Mark in 1973].
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![U.S. Cents, 1795-1814, [Vol. 2 : Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s].](https://archive.org/services/img/uscents17951814v00bitl)
1950U.S. Cents, 1795-1814, [Vol. 2 : Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s].
[4 notebooks,Contains inventories, photographs, clippings, and notes regarding United States large cents collected by Bitler in the late 1940s and 1950s. Volumes 1 and 2 contain illustrations cut from standard catalogs and actual photographs of large cents covering the years 1793-1814; volume 3 contains over 100 photos of large cents 1815-1857 with text from sales catalogs pasted in; and volume 4 is the inventory of the original collection with cost codes and provenance,ARCHIVES,Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s, Archives, American Numismatic Society,Worthington S. Bitler (1900-1987) was a collector of United States large cents. His collection was sold to Abe Kosoff in 1960 and pieces were sold by A-Mark in 1973]
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![U.S. Cents, 1815-57, [Vol. 3 : Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s].](https://archive.org/services/img/uscents181557vol00bitl)
1950U.S. Cents, 1815-57, [Vol. 3 : Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s].
[4 notebooks,Contains inventories, photographs, clippings, and notes regarding United States large cents collected by Bitler in the late 1940s and 1950s. Volumes 1 and 2 contain illustrations cut from standard catalogs and actual photographs of large cents covering the years 1793-1814; volume 3 contains over 100 photos of large cents 1815-1857 with text from sales catalogs pasted in; and volume 4 is the inventory of the original collection with cost codes and provenance,ARCHIVES,Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s, Archives, American Numismatic Society,Worthington S. Bitler (1900-1987) was a collector of United States large cents. His collection was sold to Abe Kosoff in 1960 and pieces were sold by A-Mark in 1973]
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![United States cents, from 1793 to 1857, by dates, die varieties of each date, and sub-varieties of each die, where known, together with patterns, counterfeits, altered dates, electrotypes, oddities, etc., collected by W.S. Bitler, from 1945 to 1960 : [Vol. 4 : Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s].](https://archive.org/services/img/uscents17931857v00bitl)
1950United States cents, from 1793 to 1857, by dates, die varieties of each date, and sub-varieties of each die, where known, together with patterns, counterfeits, altered dates, electrotypes, oddities, etc., collected by W.S. Bitler, from 1945 to 1960 : [Vol. 4 : Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s].
[4 notebooks,Contains inventories, photographs, clippings, and notes regarding United States large cents collected by Bitler in the late 1940s and 1950s. Volumes 1 and 2 contain illustrations cut from standard catalogs and actual photographs of large cents covering the years 1793-1814; volume 3 contains over 100 photos of large cents 1815-1857 with text from sales catalogs pasted in; and volume 4 is the inventory of the original collection with cost codes and provenance,ARCHIVES,Worthington S. Bitler notebooks, mid-1900s, Archives, American Numismatic Society,Worthington S. Bitler (1900-1987) was a collector of United States large cents. His collection was sold to Abe Kosoff in 1960 and pieces were sold by A-Mark in 1973]
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