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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 5130380, member: 80783&quot;]Congratulations AJ! What a beauty!!! Worth a place in your collection which must surely rank high among the finest private assemblies of ancent coins known to us.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my bronzes with the oldest pedigrees. None of these were known to the respective sellers, I discovered them by own research or help from CT members and experts.</p><p>I bought the coins because they were the best of their respective rulers that I could afford and find their histories an added bonus:</p><p><br /></p><p>My Sestertius of Macrinus was acquired by Christian August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1744-1798), Austrian General and Field Marshal of the Portuguese Army:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/bildschirmfoto-2020-08-10-um-18-26-17-png.1157569/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Curtis Clay (&quot;The Roman Coinage of Macrinus and Diadumenian&quot;) Sestertius obverse die Nr.2 and reverse Nr.42 (this coin), Münzhandlung Basel 1935 (Waldeck Collection), Lot 730. </p><p><br /></p><p>My only Medallion´s first attested owner was Claude Camille Rollin (1813-1883). This specimen of Numerianus is listed in his 1880 &quot;CATALOGUE D&#039;UNE COLLECTION DE MÉDAILLES ROMAINES&quot; and the standard works of Cohen and Gnecchi:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/bildschirmfoto-2019-04-20-um-21-28-44-png.1107017/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Cohen 32 (this coin); Gnecchi II Nr. 9 (this coin); Pink (&quot;Die Medaillonprägung unter Carus und seinen Söhnen&quot;, 1958) Nr.18 (this coin discussed). Jacob Hirsch 10.05.1909 (Consul Weber) Nr.2424; Naville VIII 25.06.1924 (C.S. Bement) Nr. 1428; Schulman 243, 08.10.1966 (Richard J. Graham) Nr. 2507.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian II Sestertius from the collection of Richard van de Vyvere-Colens (1837-1912) and Banti plate coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/bildschirmfoto-2019-12-26-um-00-28-03-png.1042884/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Banti (I Grandi Bronzi Imperiali, Vol. IV-2) Nr. 6 (this coin illustrated),</p><p>ex Charles Dupriez Sale Nr. 112 Bis (07.04.1913), lot 1527, and Heritage Sale 3071 (07.01.2019, „Morris Collection“) lot 32194</p><p><br /></p><p>Nerva Sestertius from the collection of Arthur Löbbecke (1850-1932):</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/bildschirmfoto-2019-12-26-um-00-23-04-png.1042874/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Auction Hess Nr. 182 (06.01.1926), lot 1115 a[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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