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<p>[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 4639768, member: 14873"]I don’t know how familiar you are with the Romano/British coin collection of Dr. Stoffel Vogelaar, Stuart. If you haven’t already read it, you should visit Lee Toone’s page ……………</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.hookmoor.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Vogelaar-Celator-Article-v2-lo-lo-res.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hookmoor.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Vogelaar-Celator-Article-v2-lo-lo-res.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.hookmoor.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Vogelaar-Celator-Article-v2-lo-lo-res.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>…………… and you will learn just about everything you need to know about Dr. Vogelaar and his amazing early Romano/British coin collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never met him, but I did have a brief email exchange with him, mostly relating to the Invasion, LON marked and Bastien Intermediate coins (?) that he was consigning to Spink for Auction at that time. As Lee mentions, Dr. Vogelaar never did formally Catalog or write a book about his enormous collection - he just liked to collect and study those coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>He had broken up his collection and had consigned some groups to CNG for Auction. Now he was doing the same with Spink. I had no personal involvement with his Auction transactions nor did I want to have one - it was none of my business.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had written him first to point out some miss-attribution errors he might have made for his coin descriptions so he could correct them.</p><p><br /></p><p>He thanked me and we had a few back and forth discussions about the coinage we both loved so much - I guess he sensed that I was just an enthusiastic collector like himself with no real business interest - and also no real business acumen, again, just like himself!</p><p><br /></p><p>He asked me if I was interested in buying (at a good price) any of the remaining coins he hadn’t yet consigned to Auction. I was tempted, for he still had several choice coins (originally he had quite a few LON marked folles!). But my coin purchase budget was almost depleted at the time and I declined his offer (great mistake in hindsight!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Why this rambling post, Stuart? Well I would like to suggest you access the archived Auction listings of Spink and CNG relating to Stoffel Vogelaar (refer to the Lee Toone article via the link I have provided) and see if you can mine some useful information about early London mint coinage in general and LON marked coins in particular.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 4639768, member: 14873"]I don’t know how familiar you are with the Romano/British coin collection of Dr. Stoffel Vogelaar, Stuart. If you haven’t already read it, you should visit Lee Toone’s page …………… [URL]http://www.hookmoor.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Vogelaar-Celator-Article-v2-lo-lo-res.pdf[/URL] …………… and you will learn just about everything you need to know about Dr. Vogelaar and his amazing early Romano/British coin collection. I never met him, but I did have a brief email exchange with him, mostly relating to the Invasion, LON marked and Bastien Intermediate coins (?) that he was consigning to Spink for Auction at that time. As Lee mentions, Dr. Vogelaar never did formally Catalog or write a book about his enormous collection - he just liked to collect and study those coins. He had broken up his collection and had consigned some groups to CNG for Auction. Now he was doing the same with Spink. I had no personal involvement with his Auction transactions nor did I want to have one - it was none of my business. I had written him first to point out some miss-attribution errors he might have made for his coin descriptions so he could correct them. He thanked me and we had a few back and forth discussions about the coinage we both loved so much - I guess he sensed that I was just an enthusiastic collector like himself with no real business interest - and also no real business acumen, again, just like himself! He asked me if I was interested in buying (at a good price) any of the remaining coins he hadn’t yet consigned to Auction. I was tempted, for he still had several choice coins (originally he had quite a few LON marked folles!). But my coin purchase budget was almost depleted at the time and I declined his offer (great mistake in hindsight!). Why this rambling post, Stuart? Well I would like to suggest you access the archived Auction listings of Spink and CNG relating to Stoffel Vogelaar (refer to the Lee Toone article via the link I have provided) and see if you can mine some useful information about early London mint coinage in general and LON marked coins in particular.[/QUOTE]
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