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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jay GT4, post: 8154335, member: 88526&quot;]An outstanding addition Donna.&nbsp; Fantastic provenance too.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have two provenances that go back over 100 years</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422681[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS VIII PP</font></p><p><font size="5">Laureate head of Vespasian right</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">SC</font></p><p><font size="5">Eagle standing facing on globe, head right, wings spread</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Lugdunum mint</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">77-78 AD</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">8.77g</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">RIC 1237 (C3); Sear 2362</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">From the collection of Gordon Wyatt Goldfinch (1895-1918) of Elfindale Road, London.</font></p><p><font size="5">With hand written old ticket citing #209 collection number.</font></p><p><font size="5">Ex-Artancient Ltd.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Private Goldfinch was a passionate collector of Imperial Roman coinage. His personal catalog of coins dates to August 1910 when he was just 15 years of age. Goldfinch volunteered for service in 1914 with the 2nd London Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He died in service on March 28th, 1918 at the age of 23.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422686[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XI CENS POT P P</font></p><p><font size="5">Laureate head right with Aegis</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">SC</font></p><p><font size="5">Mars advancing left with Victory and trophy</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Rome, 85 AD</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">13.67g</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">RIC 387 (C)</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Holed in antiquity and plugged in the late 19th century?</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Ex-Manfred Olding 2019 n 184; Ex-Sammlung Heynen 1976;Ex-Paul Schürer (1890-1976); Ex-Fritz Reusing (1874-1956)</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Comes with old tag probably from Heynen or Schürer. Olding tag incorrectly attributed to RIC 420 (different ending to legend)</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Reusing was a German portrait painter of the early 20th Century whose portraits included Richard Strauss, Igor Strawinsky, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein. After Reusing&#039;s death his nephew Paul Schürer inherited and curated the collection. Heynen was a friend of Reusing&#039;s, and at an earlier date had evidently sold or exchanged or given a substantial number of coins to Reusing, this being one of those coins!</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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