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<p>[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 24826992, member: 135271"]Here's an interesting update. It didn't register at the time, but recently I noticed that the Favorito reference work I had purchased - <i>The Bronze Coinage of Ancient Syracuse</i> - was embossed as coming from the library of Kenneth E. Mayo, member of the Society Historia Numorum, who also contributed to the reference work.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_11/IMG_20231129_215636.jpg.64670c16fa82b9d3facdbd10a565e9e8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>What was <i>really </i>cool is that this book was also signed by (presumably) the author Emilio N. Favorito for Kenneth Mayo, with a personal note of thanks -</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_11/IMG_20231129_215648.jpg.eec19dc7713324ef359cc693b815a91f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see some of the coins cited in the reference work came from Mayo's collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought it was an interesting addition to the story of the OP coin. [ATTACH=full]1589738[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 24826992, member: 135271"]Here's an interesting update. It didn't register at the time, but recently I noticed that the Favorito reference work I had purchased - [I]The Bronze Coinage of Ancient Syracuse[/I] - was embossed as coming from the library of Kenneth E. Mayo, member of the Society Historia Numorum, who also contributed to the reference work. [IMG]https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_11/IMG_20231129_215636.jpg.64670c16fa82b9d3facdbd10a565e9e8.jpg[/IMG] What was [I]really [/I]cool is that this book was also signed by (presumably) the author Emilio N. Favorito for Kenneth Mayo, with a personal note of thanks - [IMG]https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_11/IMG_20231129_215648.jpg.eec19dc7713324ef359cc693b815a91f.jpg[/IMG] As you can see some of the coins cited in the reference work came from Mayo's collection. I thought it was an interesting addition to the story of the OP coin. [ATTACH=full]1589738[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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