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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 24819402, member: 83845&quot;]Absolutely wonderful [USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER] ! I saw the sale but I didn’t participate because I was already spread thin with other targets/active bids. I am glad you did so well!</p><p><br /></p><p>I posted photos of a few of my shelves in an interview series Ocat is posting on NF: <a href="https://www.numisforums.com/topic/5305-interview-with-a-member-curtisimo/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisforums.com/topic/5305-interview-with-a-member-curtisimo/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was recently extremely happy to pick up a copy of the 1986 Superior Galleries sale of the Robert Grover Collection. It shed some additional light on one of my favorite coin provenances.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1588813[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1588814[/ATTACH] </p><p>Egypt, Alexandria </p><p>Antoninus Pius</p><p>BI Tetradrachm, Alexandria mint, RY 11 = AD 147/8. </p><p>Dia.: 24 mm</p><p>Wt.: 13.81 g</p><p>Obv.: ANTωNEINOC CEB EYCEB, Laureate bust right</p><p>Rev.: L ENΔEKATOV, Elpis standing left, lifting hem of skirt and holding flower</p><p>Ref.: Dattari-Savio pl. 111, 8160 (this coin illustrated); Emmett 1383.11; RPC Online IV temp #13607 (this coin cited).</p><p>Ex Giovanni Dattari Collection (1853-1923), illustrated in Dattari-Savio (pl. 111, 8160); Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman-Egyptian Coinage, donated to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1981 (1981.511)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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