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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7911443, member: 110350&quot;]I wrote to HJB to ask if they could tell me anything about the previous sale of this Aspendos stater on March 7, 2001, in terms of whether it was an auction, a retail sale, etc. Aaron Berk was kind enough to write back to tell me that it was sold to a Dr. Spina at a coin show in Baltimore on that date -- I assume that it must have been a fairly major show for HJB to travel from Chicago -- and even sent me a copy of the invoice, with the buyer&#039;s address redacted. Interestingly, it seems that the price of the stater has increased less in the last 20 years than some of the other coins Dr. Spina purchased at the same time, including Roman denarii and Byzantine gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1365971[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add: if it&#039;s the same Spina, he was (or is) apparently a well-known collector, especially of ancient Greek coins. See&nbsp; <a href="https://coinsweekly.com/nomos-ag-ch-zurich-8/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinsweekly.com/nomos-ag-ch-zurich-8/" rel="nofollow">https://coinsweekly.com/nomos-ag-ch-zurich-8/</a> (&quot;The Spina Collection, formed in the USA, is well-known for the quality of the Greek coins it contains&quot;); Triton XXII catalog, Jan. 2019, at <a href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/cng_triton_xxii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/cng_triton_xxii" rel="nofollow">https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/cng_triton_xxii</a> (including coins from the Spina Collection).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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