The collection of Eric ten Brink: coins of Hadrian..(Okidoki) 916 coins is up on Leu

Hadrian Sestertius Neptune foot on prow, Rome 126 AD, 22.2gm. It took me a while to scroll through Eric's fantastic collection but well worth it, let me know what you think and if you win any, by the way Okidoki was a champion collector of Hadrian coins on CoinTalk. I wish him all the best with his sale.

 

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Thank you Ancient Aussie,

916 solo lots, in total about 1700
https://leunumismatik.com/source/images/auction/42/pdf/2ad6a582-42a1-4b0b-b84e-87b538d350f1.pdf

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eric

 

Oh my goodness! Thank you for pointing it out. I really like knowing who the previous collectors were (and even started a post here re: coins ex-collection of other CoinTalk members).

And over half of it is Provincial, too (counting Alexandria, 205 + 273 other RPC = 478). [EDIT: Oh maybe I overlooked the group lots...] Yup...I can definitely see that we've been competing for many of the same coins in recent years. Hopefully I'll get some on the second go around.


Looks like he went for every Ex-Dattari Collection Hadrian possible! My pair below must be two of the only ones he didn't manage to snatch up:






A couple of more Hadrian Provincials represented in both of our collections (or same general type, since RPC typology can be highly specific, his look like mostly different dies):


Lorber & Michaels 117 = Haymann pl. 37, O6/R12 (corr.?)


BCD Thess II 952.2 = RPC 452.21


Not that I'm against an Imperial Hadrian...

My first Roman coin (35+ years ago?) was a Hadrian Sestertius. I visited the wall in N. England with my parents, and bought the coin afterward while we were traveling:

 

Now that the Leu sale is over, I decided to bump this post by @Ancient Aussie. I hope the sale was a success for @Okidoki. There were loads of interesting coins in his collection, but budget-wise I had to be very strict and selected four favorites. I'm very happy to have been able to get the second from my list, and within my budget. A lovely cistophorus (my first too!) with a very interesting reverse. My no 1 target proved to be too expensive unfortunately.

I've posted this win on numisformus too, so I'll show it here as well. Just hoping it doesn't offend to postal gods...!


One coin that, to me, stood out, was this one. Not because of the provenance, but the beautiful portrait and toning. It hammered for 15k, so I was not the only one that found it very appealing (or was it the provenance that took it to that level?).



So, was anyone else successful?

 

For the Leu veterans…When do invoices generally go out after an auction? Also, what is a realistic expectation of shipping times to the USA? This was my first Leu auction and I have to say, up until this point, it was a great experience.

 

I like Leu and have won with them many times. Often the invoice takes more than a week to arrive. (It must not be automated. Biddr auctions send invoices right away after the auction closes.) Then shipping takes still more time. I pay the day the invoice appears. In their March auction I was not notified it had shipped until a week or so after that. Total time to get the coins in Oregon was 28 days. In their December 2022 auction they took vacation time off after the auction and before shipping (!) and it took 39 days.

Of course, packing 7200 lots takes some time! Just be patient.

 

Love your Hadrian Limes, one of my favorite types dedicated to the famous temple, also a huge bonus your coin carries a great deal more history as being overstruck on a BC Cistophorus, congrats.

 

I won two coins from the ETB Collection. Both Alexandria bronzes. There were many others I really wish I could've kept bidding on, and were worth more than their hammer prices.

TWO that I WON ... followed by FIVE that I LOST.

One was an AE Obol from the Athribite Nome with Chuit-Hathor holding eagle (patron deity of Athribis town and the district; ex AK Collection, Kellner plate coin).

(From the Hellenistic period onward, the Egyptian deities usually appeared without animal heads, and these Nome deities were described by Milne in 1932 as "stock images" only varying in their attributes/companion animals.)

The other is the AE Drachm I showed in another post, with a captives reverse (ex Dattari 1775).

Kellner, p. 106, pl. 5, 19 = RPC III online 6466.44 (this coin [55772])​

Emmett 1007 (5) = Dattari (Savio) 1775 = RPC III online 5294.2 (this coin 58559) ​

As someone who "collects collections," I was very impressed by the Provincials (especially Alexandrian). (I think of a collection as a piece of literature -- at least the good ones. To own a collection coin, and place it in a new context, is a way of appreciating and building upon that contribution to the literature.)

Practically every possible specimen had been submitted to & cited in RPC. Lest one suspect that of being a last-minute marketing strategy, the final two print editions of RPC Supplement (2017, 2019) began with acknowledgements thanking ETB for his contributions.

From RPC Supplement IV, “Preface” (p. vii):

“To avoid making this printed Supplement too big, multiple new specimens of known types have not always been included here.

"This applies particularly to the ever-growing collections of CGT, ETB and A. Tricarico, but we owe their owners a special debt of gratitude from the way they are constantly checking, and often acquiring, newly appearing coins, especially on eBay, and regularly sending in information about them: every morning we all await the welcome arrival of several emails from each of them!”

(See also RPC Supplement 5, Preface, p. vii. I don’t know who CGT is, but I see their coins frequently; should the initials’ owner feel like sending a message, I’d be interested in making their acquaintance!)​

ETB was fortunate to have been collecting Alexandrian when Naville started to disperse its parcel of thousands of coins from the Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) Collection, c. 2017. At least 96 ex-Dattari Coins of Hadrian were in the ETB collection! (That's 5.5% of the c. 1,750-1,800 Hadrians in Dattari-Savio 2007, incl. the Nomes & Supplement!)


More Favorites (I did NOT win these):

Lot 2830: The absolute highlight was the unique Ares Tetradrachm, from the Staffieri Collection. Leu didn’t mention it, but several of the coins were illustrated by Dattari in 1901, including D 1271. To be illustrated in 1901 (unlike the 1999/2007 Dattari-Savio rubbings which covered the whole collection), Dattari had to consider the coin very special. Either unique or the best of its imagery.

Leu also didn’t note that it was published in Figari-Mosconi (220).

NOT MINE! ​

Lot 2774: Also in Dattari 1901 was the unique bust of Hermes Tetradrachm (D 1388). (There was one similar specimen, but different enough that Leu is justified in calling it unique.)

NOT MINE!​

There were many other wonderful ones like that. I won’t mention them all, but I noticed several others that Leu failed to mention were in the Dattari 1901 plates or Figari-Mosconi, in the print edition RPC Supplements, many cited in Emmett (2001), and some cited in David Sear’s Roman Coins and Their Values.

Two more highlights from the 1901 Dattari Plates:

Lot 2886 = Dattari 1685, exceptional Dioscuri:

NOT MINE!​

Lot 2820 = Dattari 1329, facing Canopi jars (Isis or Osiris Canopus alone not a big deal, together is special!)

NOT MINE!​

Lot 2517: Lastly, I really should have kept going for this one. (But I would've had to drop the Athribite Obol above.) Someone got a steal for 120 CHF. A nice Thessalian League AE temp. Hadrian with Achilles on the obverse.

NOT MINE!​

The obverse & rev. are illustrated in Burrer (1993). This coin was also from the fantastic -- but, sadly, largely unknown -- CNG E-Auction 299 (27 Mar 2013), "Coinage of the Thessalian League from the BCD Collection" (Lots 1-80), (I have an annotated biblio of the second part, CNG EA 325, Lots 1-95, on my website, but haven't yet posted my annotations for 299. Together I think of them as the "BCD Thessaly Supplement: Koinon.")

 

WOW great coins Curtis, looks like your a real Alexandria fan, congrats.

 

Sorry for the repetition here, but for anyone interested, I've just finished the ETB = Eric ten Brink = Okidoki entry in my online "Provenance Glossary." (Reference page w/ biographical & descriptive details about prior collectors represented in my own collection, meant to be useful for provenance research).

I'm very open to corrections/suggestions (including by priv. message or email). (Other CT members are indexed among the private collections as well.) It's one of my longer ones, as there was a lot of info available, and I did a lot research when preparing bids.

Here is the excerpt:
https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/#private-collections

BRINK, ERIC TEN = ETB Collection (1968 - )

Specialized collection of Hadrian, formed c. 2009-2022 (most c. 2014-). Extensive gallery on Forvm, begun in 2014. Active on CT (@Okidoki ) & FAC (okidoki).

Almost 1,800 coins sold at Leu Web Auction 26 (8-13 Jul 2023): 915 single lots, >20 groups, & several non-Hadrian lots.

Dozens of coins (mostly Denarii) cited or ill. in RIC. Highlight of the collection: spectacular galley Sestertius = RIC 1282, ex Abbé Visconti & Museo del Padri Corsini, c. 1740s. For Alexandrian: beautiful bust of Ares on unique tetradrachm pub. by collectors Dattari 1271 (1901: Pl. VIII; D-S 2007: P. 63), Staffieri (QT,1993: Fig. 1; AIN, 2017: 57), and others.

Over half the single lots (478) were RPC, 205 from Roman Egypt, Alexandria. At least 96 ex-Dattari Collection; many ex Staffieri, AK & other notable Alex. colls. &/or ill. or cited in various important refs.

Almost every possible specimen is cited in RPC. Acknowledged in final two RPC Supplements (2017, 2019): “[to] CGT, ETB, and A. Tricarico … a special debt of gratitude … every morning we all await the welcome arrival of several emails from each of them!” [RPC Supplement 4, “Preface” (p. vii); see also RPC Supplement 5, “Preface” (p. vii); and, 1 of 16 priv. colls. on RPC Online Acks. pg.]

Leu’s bio noted (PDF bio) major interests in Cistophori & Eastern mint Denarii.

I don’t know if a print catalog (commercial or otherwise) was ever produced. But it should be!

[Leu Numismatik’s 1.5-page coll. bio (to PDF) ; Leu WA 26 Lots]

Coins: Hadrian Alexandrian “Captives” Drachm (Dattari 1775) ; Hadrian Nomes Obol (AK, Kellner 106, 19)​