My diademed and veiled bust dupondius of Faustina I came with an old French-language collector tag. Does anyone recognize whose it might be? Salient features: - Cream-colored card stock hand-cut into a circle with scissors - Written in ball-point pen in the French language - Uses Cohen and RIC numbers - Uses arrows not only to indicate the direction the inscriptions read, but also to indicate the location of breaks in the inscriptions - Gives weight in grams, diameter in smallest x largest dimensions, and die axis - Uses the symbol Ø to indicate diameter
I think the only way you will find out is by asking the seller. The tag is probably from France, so maybe @Cucumbor could recognized it if it’s from someone famous...
It's minted from fabulous dies, style on the obverse is amazing Although the tag is written in french I don't recognize someone famous's writing At least it's not me (not my tag and I'm not famous) Q
I wrote to the auction firm, inquiring about the item's provenance. They were kind enough to promptly reply to my inquiry: Dear Roman Collector, I regret that neither I nor the vendor have any information on the identity of the French collector who wrote this ticket. It came with the coin when the present vendor purchased it but he cannot recall exactly when or where he bought it, with the others from that same collector. There do not appear to be many clues on the ticket itself. The back simply records weight, die axis and diameters while the front only shows the obv/rev basic details and legends plus the RIC volume 1 reference. The fact that RIC is used rather than Sear might suggest an academic rather than a casual collector? In the UK there is quite a lot of interest and research into identities for coin tickets and a number were published in the British Numismatic Journal a while ago; sadly, I know of no such efforts being made in France. From other tickets with coins from the same batch, about the only thing I can say is the the collector seemed to concentrate his collecting in Roman Imperial early bronzes including sestertii, dupondii and ases and generally in not the highest of grades. Sorry that I cannot be of more help. Best regards, Chris Wren TimeLine Auctions
That is a nice reply. Curious which Timeline auction did you win this in? Was it just over a week ago? Very nice coin, RC!
Did you receive your coins already? Or are those the auction house's photos? Congrats! I just got notified mine were sent. Sorry, just curious. Don't mean to derail... Now on to our regularly scheduled program I've never seen that used... I like it!
Wow! That’s what we call « customer’s service ». TimeLine Auctions doesn’t know it, but they just get the best publicity of the year. I hope you will have a nice discount on your next purchase @Roman Collector !
