Post your coins with pedigrees!

Let's see some pics! I would love to own ANYTHING out of eliasbergs collection. Shoot I'd take a ripped open and ratty 2x2!

 

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I know I have been posting this coin a lot but its the only coin I have with a pedigree
William Luebke Collection.

 

Pics are a little dark, but it's hard to get good pics of large cents.

 

Pics are a little dark, but it's hard to get good pics of large cents.

 

Wow very neat! Love the large cents and love that dollar! Awesome pieces guys!

 

That's my favorite to, I found it in change

 

Melvin & George Fuld

 

This coin was passed down from my great uncle to my mom when she visited Italy as a young girl. My mom recently passed it down to me.

 

Only pedigree coin, but it's shiny

 

Pittman is my favorite, I have three of his including this one, plus a 1905 DWI gold 4-Daler in MS65 and a 1933 Fuad 10 Piastres in MS63. Also own an Eliasberg 1938 Egypt 100 Piastres in MS62 but it's a pretty pedestrian coin, as MS65 examples are not that rare. All else being equal, Pittman coinage blows away most of the coins with Eliasberg's name on the holder, especially anything from outside the United States.

 

At 3.2 ounces and almost 2" across, this bronze coin is one of the largest ancients minted. And it has an excellent pedigree, having been in the same collection from the 1800's until I bought it last year.



EGYPT, Alexandria. Ptolemy II Philadelphus
285-246 BC
AE48 mm, 91.8 gm
Obv: laureate head of Zeus Ammon right
Rev: eagle standing left on thunderbolt looking right, wings partly spread, E monogram between eagle's legs
Ref: Sear 7782, Svoronos 446
ex Professor James Eaton Collection (Stack's Bowers and Ponterio, 20 August 2013, Session F) lot 34098

About Professor Eaton (from Stack's Bowers auction brochure):

Professor James R. Eaton (1834-1897)

James Eaton was born the second son of Reverend George Washington Eaton, D.D., L.L.D., who was the president of Madison University (now called Colgate University) in Hamilton, New York. James graduated from Madison University and the Hamilton Theological Seminary and, though he was ordained as a Baptist minister, chose teaching as his profession. He became a professor of mathematics, natural science, ancient languages, and theology, and in 1868 he accepted a position at William Jewel College in Liberty, Missouri. He served as the head of the Department of NaturalSciences for 28 years.

By 1897, his increasing frailty convinced James that he should take a sabbatical, and it had been his lifelong dream to visit the Holy Land. He set sail from New York, but tragically suffered a heart attack shortly aer arriving in Cairo. He died a few days later on March 20, 1897.

Professor Eaton was an enthusiastic collector, and in addition to his extensive cabinets of minerals and geological specimens, he spent 30 years collecting coins. He created many different sub-collections, including a complete collection of Biblical coins, a collection of the earliest gold, silver,and bronze Greek and Roman coins, a portrait collection, a collection of early American copper coins, and many others.

The last coin was integrated into this impressive collection back in the 1890s, meaning that this collection has been off the market for more than a century! The coins eventually came into the possession of James' son, Hubert Eaton, who was the one of the founders and presidents of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Hubert periodically displayed the coins at the museum there, along with other family sculptures and art.

James Eaton was born the second son of Reverend George Washington Eaton, D.D., L.L.D., who was the president of Madison University (now called Colgate University) in Hamilton, New York. James graduated from Madison University and the Hamilton Theological Seminary and, though he was ordained as a Baptist minister, chose teaching as his profession. He became a professor of mathematics, natural science, ancient languages, and theology, and in 1868 he accepted a position at William Jewel College in Liberty, Missouri. He served as the head of the Department of NaturalSciences for 28 years.

By 1897, his increasing frailty convinced James that he should take a sabbatical, and it had been his lifelong dream to visit the Holy Land. He set sail from New York, but tragically suffered a heart attack shortly aer arriving in Cairo. He died a few days later on March 20, 1897.

Professor Eaton was an enthusiastic collector, and in addition to his extensive cabinets of minerals and geological specimens, he spent 30 years collecting coins. He created many different sub-collections, including a complete collection of Biblical coins, a collection of the earliest gold, silver,and bronze Greek and Roman coins, a portrait collection, a collection of early American copper coins, and many others.

The last coin was integrated into this impressive collection back in the 1890s, meaning that this collection has been off the market for more than a century! The coins eventually came into the possession of James' son, Hubert Eaton, who was the one of the founders and presidents of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Hubert periodically displayed the coins at the museum there, along with other family sculptures and art.

To better appreciate the incredible size, here it is with my smallest coin, a 5 mm bit of silver from the Pangeion region of Macedon. That's a monkey on the obverse.

 

This Greek silver fraction is pedigreed to a certain Sidney Mygind. I could find no information on the person, other than the fact that the British Museum has four Ptolemaic silvers of the same provenance.

The Langtoft Hoard was a famous discovery by British metal detectorists in 2002, and included a large amount of exceptionally well-struck and well-preserved bronzes of Constantine the Great.

1. Kyzikos, Mysia
AR Tritatemorion, 9X12mm, 0.58g; 480-450 BC.
Obv.: Forepart of running boar left, tunny fish facing upward.
Rev.: Roaring lion.
Notes: Ex Sidney Mygind.

2. Constantine I
AE Follis, 19.5mm, 3.61g; Trier mint: 322-3
Obv.: CONSTAN-TINVS AVG; helmeted, cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: BEATA TRAN-QVILLITAS; Globe set on altar inscribed VO/TIS/XX, above, three stars // dot PTR dot.
Reference: RIC VII Trier 368 (p. 197)
Notes: ex-Langtoft hoard.

 

Some time back, I wrote a post explaining how many ancient coin firms describe pedigrees: http://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-to-describe-a-pedigree.223143/

Here is my best:

THESSALY, The Oitaioi. Circa 167-146 BC.
AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.30 g, 1h)
Herakleia Trachinia mint
Lion’s head left, spear in its jaws
OITAI downward to right, ΩN downward to left, Herakles standing facing, holding club in both hands
Valassiadis 9; BCD Thessaly II 494 (same obverse die)

Ex BCD Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 290), lot 57; Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 199; Vinchon (20 May 1959), lot 483; M. Ratto 11 (16 May 1935), lot 239; R. Ratto (4 April 1927), lot 1023; Naville-Ars Classica V (18 June 1923), lot 1764​

 

Nice pedigree, Ard! Thanks for the link-- I have corrected my Ptolemy's pedigree format.

 

SC Diggin: << I'm interested in seeing some collectors's coins with pedigrees or pedigreed coins >>

Trey: <<I would LOVE to own an Eliasberg anything. Truly a remarkable collector. >>

Although I do not currently own any Elaisberg coins, I attended the sales in 1996 and 1997. Over the years, I have written a great deal about coins that were previously in the Eliasberg Collection. The Eliasberg 1818/5 quarter will be discussed in my column that will be published tomorrow.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Eliasberg 1906-S Double Eagle

Eliasberg 1838-O Half Dollar and the Controversy over its origins

Best Eliasberg 1794 cent has been in several epic coin collections

insightful10{at}gmail.com

 

Something common.....but nice....

 

I just wrote about the Newman-Green-Jung 1818/5 quarter, a coin with a great pedigree and great eye appeal. Maybe the new owner will be very happy in August.

http://www.coinweek.com/featured-news/spectacular-newman-jung-coin-18185-capped-bust-quarters/

 

Re-posting since rearranging my photobucket.