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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 5127057, member: 56859&quot;]Wow, AJ, what a fantastic coin and pedigree!!&nbsp; Congratulations <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My oldest pedigrees are a small group of coins from a professor who lived in the 1800s, James R. Eaton.&nbsp; The group includes my largest diameter coin, a Ptolemaic bronze, plus a handful of other Ptolemaic bronzes, a few later Alexandrian tetradrachms, and an Augustus &amp; Agrippa COL NEM.&nbsp; Here&#039;s his bio, copied from the auction catalog.&nbsp; He also collected minerals and geological specimens.&nbsp; I&#039;d love to find one of those to complement the coins!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Professor James R. Eaton (1834-1897)</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>James Eaton was born the second son of Reverend George Washington Eaton, D.D., L.L.D., who was the president of Madison University (now called Colgate University) in Hamilton, New York. James graduated from Madison University and the Hamilton Theological Seminary and, though he was ordained as a Baptist minister, chose teaching as his profession. He became a professor of mathematics, natural science, ancient languages, and theology, and in 1868 he accepted a position at William Jewel College in Liberty, Missouri. He served as the head of the Department of Natural Sciences for 28 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>By 1897, his increasing frailty convinced James that he should take a sabbatical, and it had been his lifelong dream to visit the Holy Land. He set sail from New York, but tragically suffered a heart attack shortly after arriving in Cairo. He died a few days later on March 20, 1897.</p><p><br /></p><p>Professor Eaton was an enthusiastic collector, and in addition to his extensive cabinets of minerals and geological specimens, he spent 30 years collecting coins. He created many different sub-collections, including a complete collection of Biblical coins, a collection of the earliest gold, silver, and bronze Greek and Roman coins, a portrait collection, a collection of early American copper coins, and many others.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last coin was integrated into this impressive collection back in the 1890s, meaning that this collection has been off the market for more than a century!</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins eventually came into the possession of James’ son, Hubert Eaton, who was the one of the founders and presidents of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Hubert periodically displayed the coins at the museum there, along with other family sculptures and art.</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cointalk.com%2Fproxy.php%3Fimage%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fstatic.wixstatic.com%252Fmedia%252Fae43f8_c82ede35ff6a4bd7a48c6f48d755c974.jpg%252Fv1%252Ffit%252Fw_800%252Ch_400%252Cq_75%252Fae43f8_c82ede35ff6a4bd7a48c6f48d755c974.jpg%26hash%3Ddc61989f12efa0d49d00c939d2b9e9be&amp;hash=049236db9712d67aaffcdb1478d142bd" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT. Ptolemy III</b></p><p>285-246 BCE</p><p>AE48 mm, 91.8 gm</p><p>Obv: laureate head of Zeus Ammon right</p><p>Rev: eagle standing left on thunderbolt looking right, wings partly spread, E monogram between eagle&#039;s legs</p><p>Ref: Sear 7782, Svoronos 446</p><p><i>ex Professor James Eaton Collection (1834-1897)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I have bunches of ex Dattari coins too, probably a couple dozen.&nbsp; Naville has been selling them for several years now.&nbsp; The first Naville auction to feature a large number of ex Dattari coins was a frenzy!&nbsp; Naville&#039;s auction format is not a timed closure so the start of the Dattari section was dependent on the pace of the prior lots.&nbsp; I studied all of the coins and planned my bids carefully but was utterly blown out of the water on most everything.&nbsp; I was <i>very</i> fortunate to win the first lot of the Dattari section for £55, just one increment over start... apparently because most people who were in it for Dattari coins missed the start!&nbsp; After that coup I mistakenly thought the whole auction would go like that.&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; Big-time bidding ensued and I picked up just two other &quot;lesser&quot; coins that round.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s that first Dattari win:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/tiberiusobolhippo-dattaricollection-rt-jpg.553274/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Tiberius</b></p><p>Year 5, CE 18/9</p><p>AE obol, 20 mm, 4.45 gm</p><p>Obv: bare head right</p><p>Rev: hippopotamus right; TIBEPIoY above; [L] E in exergue</p><p>Ref: Emmett 62.5, R1; Geissen 47; Dattari-Savio 102 (this coin); RPC 5082</p><p><i>ex Dattari collection (Giovanni Dattari, 1858-1923)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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