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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24691037, member: 26430"]Good one, I’ve seen lots of ex-Michael Kelly coins online (and bid on some), but never the tags. <i>Into the "database"! </i></p><p><br /></p><p>Beautiful Brutus! I love the complete ring w/ axes (?) extending beyond it. Now that I look, amazing how many have that. I can't tell if they're all die-cracks or if some dies did it intentionally.</p><p>(<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11232394" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11232394" rel="nofollow">One</a>, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11232395" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11232395" rel="nofollow">two</a>: Cracks? <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11206244" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11206244" rel="nofollow">Three</a>, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10323558" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10323558" rel="nofollow">four</a>: Maybe deliberate? I guess the answers can be found <a href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_400-499#schaefer_clippings_output_433_01_sd" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_400-499#schaefer_clippings_output_433_01_sd" rel="nofollow">in the RRDP/Schaefer Binders</a> with some patience. Either way, I like it!)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I like that idea! I’ve got about ~250 of my favorite provenances cataloged. My favorite 5-10 would be the unexpected & unusual ones, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of them would have to be one my first coins ever (bought in 1991 when I was 12), my Corinth Stater. Purchased with no provenance at all, but many years later I found it when paging through <a href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kundig_naville1921_04_04/0256/image,info,thumbs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kundig_naville1921_04_04/0256/image,info,thumbs" rel="nofollow">the Pozzi Collection (top r. corner of Pl. LIII)</a>, cataloged by Jacob Hirsch for the first Naville Ars Classica sale in 1921:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575620[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575619[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p>Serge Boutin's 1979 catalog of Pozzi's European coins (ex Mark & Lottie Salton Library).</p><p><i>Dr. Pozzi at Home</i> (1881) by John Singer Sargent (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Pozzi_at_Home" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Pozzi_at_Home" rel="nofollow">the wikipedia entry</a>; and wiki for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Jean_de_Pozzi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Jean_de_Pozzi" rel="nofollow">Samuel Jean de Pozzi</a> (1846-1918)).</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I’ve been (slowly) building a provenance collection website for that kind of stuff. I’ve posted ~74 coins so far (sorry, loads slowly!): <a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/part-i-western-greek-world/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/part-i-western-greek-world/" rel="nofollow">Greek West (Part 1)</a> [32 Coins], <a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/part-ii-eastern-greek/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/part-ii-eastern-greek/" rel="nofollow">Greek East (Part 2)</a> [24 Coins], and <a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/part-iv-alexandria/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/part-iv-alexandria/" rel="nofollow">Roman Egypt (Part 4)</a> [18 Coins].</p><p><br /></p><p>But many of my favorites are still in draft form, not yet public: Roman Provincial (Part 3), Republican/Imperial (Part 5), Byzantine et al. (Part 6), and Numismatic Literature w/ Provenance/Bookplates/Signatures (Part 7).</p><p><br /></p><p>(They all connect to my <a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/" rel="nofollow">“Provenance Glossary” page</a>, which I’m also gradually filling in so others can use it to find out more about many of the commonly encountered private collections.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24691037, member: 26430"]Good one, I’ve seen lots of ex-Michael Kelly coins online (and bid on some), but never the tags. [I]Into the "database"! [/I] Beautiful Brutus! I love the complete ring w/ axes (?) extending beyond it. Now that I look, amazing how many have that. I can't tell if they're all die-cracks or if some dies did it intentionally. ([URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11232394']One[/URL], [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11232395']two[/URL]: Cracks? [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11206244']Three[/URL], [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10323558']four[/URL]: Maybe deliberate? I guess the answers can be found [URL='http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_400-499#schaefer_clippings_output_433_01_sd']in the RRDP/Schaefer Binders[/URL] with some patience. Either way, I like it!) I like that idea! I’ve got about ~250 of my favorite provenances cataloged. My favorite 5-10 would be the unexpected & unusual ones, I think. One of them would have to be one my first coins ever (bought in 1991 when I was 12), my Corinth Stater. Purchased with no provenance at all, but many years later I found it when paging through [URL='https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kundig_naville1921_04_04/0256/image,info,thumbs']the Pozzi Collection (top r. corner of Pl. LIII)[/URL], cataloged by Jacob Hirsch for the first Naville Ars Classica sale in 1921: [ATTACH=full]1575620[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1575619[/ATTACH] [INDENT]Serge Boutin's 1979 catalog of Pozzi's European coins (ex Mark & Lottie Salton Library). [I]Dr. Pozzi at Home[/I] (1881) by John Singer Sargent ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Pozzi_at_Home']the wikipedia entry[/URL]; and wiki for [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Jean_de_Pozzi']Samuel Jean de Pozzi[/URL] (1846-1918)).[/INDENT] I’ve been (slowly) building a provenance collection website for that kind of stuff. I’ve posted ~74 coins so far (sorry, loads slowly!): [URL='https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/part-i-western-greek-world/']Greek West (Part 1)[/URL] [32 Coins], [URL='https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/part-ii-eastern-greek/']Greek East (Part 2)[/URL] [24 Coins], and [URL='https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/part-iv-alexandria/']Roman Egypt (Part 4)[/URL] [18 Coins]. But many of my favorites are still in draft form, not yet public: Roman Provincial (Part 3), Republican/Imperial (Part 5), Byzantine et al. (Part 6), and Numismatic Literature w/ Provenance/Bookplates/Signatures (Part 7). (They all connect to my [URL='https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/']“Provenance Glossary” page[/URL], which I’m also gradually filling in so others can use it to find out more about many of the commonly encountered private collections.)[/QUOTE]
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