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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24677930, member: 26430&quot;]Those would be Slg. Prof. Dr. Hildebrecht Hommel (1899-1996) [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildebrecht_Hommel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildebrecht_Hommel" rel="nofollow">on Deutsche wiki</a>], right? Your top one couldn&#039;t have been an inheritance coin (since it was bought at the 1969 G. Hirsch sale), but didn&#039;t his collection also include much of his father&#039;s, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Hommel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Hommel" rel="nofollow">Fritz Hommel (1854–1936)</a>, the Orientalist (<a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/?t=people_to_people&amp;id=165675" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://global.museum-digital.org/?t=people_to_people&amp;id=165675" rel="nofollow">other parts donated</a>)? (Maybe F.H. was a philologist too?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting how different the handwriting is on those two tags! That&#039;s a point of variation worth noticing. Some collectors produce highly standardized tags, instantly recognizable by format, handwriting, and/or medium. Others can look completely different, on tag to the next.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for posting all these. I hope you don&#039;t mind that I save many of these ones posted in coin groups (with original post URL, author/photographer, the collector attribution or clues to identity when not known). Those will be great additions to the &quot;database&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting -- I haven&#039;t seen any Kroh / Empire tags before. That would be great to positively ID.</p><p>Before reading your caption my instinct was that it&#039;s an Italian tag. (Just my impression based on tags I&#039;ve received, that use of red, blue, black is very common in Italy -- a few other countries, incl. Switz. It&#039;s interesting how localized collector tag practices can be.)</p><p>I guess the FIALIA is just for the legend abbreviation FIL on that type (RIC 1383, Faustina Jr. Sestertius). Also the Italian word for Philia...</p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, here are my &quot;writing samples&quot; for Dennis Kroh. (I was amazed to discover <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/134314404549" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/134314404549" rel="nofollow">he still sells new copies</a> of his classic <i>Ancient Coin Reference Reviews</i> for less than used copies often auction for! Quickly ordered a duplicate, so I have a &quot;collection copy&quot; &amp; &quot;reading copy,&quot; which I prefer when I have something inscribed/signed by author.)</p><p><br /></p><p>He&#039;s known for his &quot;calligraphic&quot; tendencies &amp; fondness for fountain pens, but that may not extend to his dealer tags, not sure.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574109[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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