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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24849399, member: 26430&quot;]What a great little Amisos <i>chouette</i>! I figure that&#039;s the right description, but people still sometimes call it eagle rather than owl (that&#039;s how mine, below, was <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3981970" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3981970" rel="nofollow">described when I bought it in 2014</a>). </p><p><br /></p><p>Beautiful eyes and feathers. Great turreted head of Tyche-Hera (?) too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is worn and even in this condition these are charming little coins:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592467[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if anything is known about the collector &quot;H. M.&quot; Too young for Harold Mattingly. Hyman Montagu would&#039;ve just been named, I would think. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I&#039;m sure someone knows (e.g., Alan Walker [principal at Nomos AG] or <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/HadrienRambach" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://independent.academia.edu/HadrienRambach" rel="nofollow">Hadrien Rambach</a> or other catalogers with a special interest in old collections might know).</p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing more given in John Spring&#039;s <i>Ancient Coin Auction Catalogues, 1880-1980</i>. (He would&#039;ve put the full name in brackets.) Nor the Poinsignon Library sale (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8866035" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8866035" rel="nofollow">Kuenker 357, 3102</a>; they&#039;d have given a short bio).</p><p><br /></p><p>I also had no success with my copy of Grierson&#039;s 1966 bibliography from the Lanz library, with TWO sets of hand-annotations for the ancient coin auctions and catalogs -- internally by Hermann Lanz (1910-1998), plus a separate annotated &quot;booklet&quot; by one of his sons (Ernst [1945-1989] or Hubert [1943-]), naming many other consignors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another option: Find studies that cited the coins to see if they named the collector. There was a Syracuse Tetradrachm in Tudeer 1913, but only as &quot;Bourgey 1909.&quot; Le Rider included a couple Philip AV Staters, but that was in 1977, so probably too late for names. </p><p><br /></p><p>Or -- French numismatic journals -- obituaries around that time?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, good, I&#039;m glad you shared it with him! </p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, definitely don&#039;t feel silly about that. I can&#039;t imagine many people know off the top of their head where to find turn-of-the-century French ancient coin catalogs reproduced online -- and which ones!</p><p><br /></p><p>I can confirm it was not easy to find: </p><p>I have a big list of auctions like rNumis, including many Bourgey to the 1880s, but failed to find it in previous searches, despite specifically looking for it. (Must be something missing from the metadata; didn&#039;t show up searching Etienne Bourgey as author/expert, finally found it by searching the sub-title.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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