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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24851478, member: 26430&quot;]I would expect it to be M.H. (Musée Hermitage) instead of H.M. if they used initials for it. They did deaccession &amp; sell a bunch of Greek coins, but as far as I know that was later, in Soviet period, during the lead-up to WWII (labeled only as &quot;Museumbesitz&quot; by Schlessinger).</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently they want them back, though I&#039;m having trouble finding the reference now. (Somewhere I think there&#039;s a note in one of the BCD sales describing a visit to St Petersburg in which the keeper of coins showed him the empty trays, awaiting their return... Or have I imagined this scene?)</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>EDIT</b>: Here it is! </i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5249501" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5249501" rel="nofollow">Jacquier 44 (BCD Library Duplicates, 13 Sep 2018), 2706</a></p><blockquote><p>A note from BCD: This is the catalogue for which Schlessinger will always be remembered, for better or for worse. When this writer visited Leningrad in September 1976, Mr. Dukov at the Hemitage explained to him that the empty spaces in the trays, with only the old tickets in them, were &quot;still waiting for the stolen coins&quot;. One wonders if any of these spaces have since been filled...</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p><i>(I was searching for the word &quot;Petersburg&quot; not &quot;Leningrad,&quot; which it was called until 1991! A highly memorable vignette. It&#039;s well worth reading <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=%22note+from+bcd%22&amp;category=0&amp;order=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=%22note+from+bcd%22&amp;category=0&amp;order=2" rel="nofollow">all the &quot;Notes from...&quot;</a>)</i></p><blockquote><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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