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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8456005, member: 26430&quot;]I collect “Numismatic Literature / Coin Exhibits” or &quot;Groupings&quot; -- not the best phrases... Maybe just &quot;Books and Coins that Go Together.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Am I the only one who does this? Maybe lots of people do.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorites are published coins plus printed volumes with their own interesting backstories. They take a lot of research &amp; patience (sometimes years&#039; worth), but they’re my favorite part of my collections (coins &amp; numis. literature).</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve shared some before.</p><p><br /></p><p>(1) <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/posts/8454719" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/posts/8454719">Just today I shared</a> my <b>Constantine IV Solidus</b> that was photographed as the “cover coin” for ERIC II, plus my copy of <b>ERIC II signed by the author</b>.</p><p>[ATTACH]1498545[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1498546[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(2) My ex-Samuel Pozzi (1846-1918) Collection <b>Corinth Stater</b> (sold at Ars Classica I in Lucerne, 14 Mar 1921, Lot 1688).</p><p><br /></p><p>It &quot;goes with&quot; my copy of <b>Serge Boutin&#039;s 1979 Pozzi Collection catalog</b>. That copy is ex Library of Mark Salton (1914-2005) and Lottie Salton (d. 2020), from the Kolbe &amp; Fanning sale in 2021.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1498543[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Also, for type BMC 282 (not my specimen)</i>: My tattered copy of BMC Corinth (Head 1889), with G.F. Hill&#039;s (1867-1948) bookplate. (G.F. Hill wrote other BMC volumes.) It also has the red ink library stamp &amp; handwritten inventory number (538) of German numismatist Hermann Lanz (1910-1998). Also pictured, my homemade custom book box (temp -- cardboard wouldn&#039;t be good long-term):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1498550[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(3) <b>Samarian AR Obol / Ma’eh</b> from the Jay Galst Collection. It was originally unearthed in the “Samaria Hoard,” so it is a plate coin in <b>Meshorer &amp; Quedar’s 1991 <i>Coinage of Samaria in the Fourth Century BCE</i></b>, which first published the hoard and tried to catalog all Samarian coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My copy is ex-ANS Library and signed by Meshorer (1935-2004). There’s a second signature, not sure who. (Is that Shraga Qedar (1933-2015) writing in Hebrew script [appears to be right-to-left]? Maybe Meshorer signed in both?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1498547[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>NOTE: Maybe it&#039;s paranoid, it occurred to me I might want to scramble the signatures. (Both authors are deceased, but still...)</i></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1498548[/ATTACH]</p><p>Also the Athena Fund (NFA, Bruce McNall, Merrill-Lynch investment fund) sale catalogs from Sotheby&#039;s in 1993, where it was Lot 972 in part II:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1498551[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve got a bunch of others, some including more coins per book or vice versa, some taking more explanation, but I’ll just share those three. For the first, the provenance was fully listed in the auction, but the second two are special to me because I ferreted out most of the provenance myself (&quot;in the wild,&quot; so to speak), the Corinth stater being a coin I bought in 1991, only learning of its background decades later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone else have groups of coins and numismatic literature that they collected as a “unit” or “exhibit” or because they “belong together,” however you think of it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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