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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8154626, member: 110350"]Vespasian thanks you for all the compliments to his aureus -- they mean a great deal, especially given the fantastic collections so many of you have -- and I thank you for posting all these wonderful coins with amazing provenances.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few random facts about the Vicomte de Sartiges and his collection, probably of interest to few people other than me! First, 104 coins from the de Sartiges Collection are listed at acsearch as having been sold at auction since 2000. Of course there must be some duplication from repeated sales, but it's clear nonetheless that it's a well-remembered and valued provenance. Although the provenance for my coin was obviously lost somewhere along the way after 1938, given that it wasn't mentioned in the 2017 Triskeles sale. Without any provenance, the coin sold for about half of what I paid, which just goes to show how much an old provenance can increase the value of a coin, although I'm sure part of the difference is the general increase in prices over the last four years. And perhaps, without any provenance, the price in 2017 was depressed by the noticeable edge cut at 3:00 and the lesser one at 6:00, suggesting a possible history as jewelry. (Which doesn't bother me at all!) In any case, I'm sure mine isn't the only de Sartiges coin whose provenance has been forgotten and waits to be rediscovered. I've been able to find no trace of my coin at all between 1938 and 2017.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, although I spent considerably more on this coin than I've ever spent on a coin before (but not so much more than I've spent on other things I've collected, like certain antiquities), it's still a mere piker in that universe of 104 de Sartiges coins listed at acsearch, and probably lies towards the bottom of the list. Here are the top 15 highest sales prices from the list [I'm sorry, but it appears that copying and pasting the thumbnail photos from the list doesn't work; perhaps clicking on the link will serve the same purpose]:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=sartiges+vicomte&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=eur&order=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=sartiges+vicomte&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=eur&order=3" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=sartiges+vicomte&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=eur&order=3</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/103/1367/1178628.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE04.01.2012</p><p>HAMMER 463'682 EUR</p><p>THE NEW YORK SALE, AUCTION 27, LOT 271The Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins. MACEDON. Amphipolis (366/5 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm., 14.21g,. Head of Apollo facing, slightly inclined to right, wearing a laurel-wreath. Rev. AMΦ-IΠO-ΛIT-EΩN on a broad frame of a raised linear square enclosing a race-torch, a cicada on inner left, all within a broad shallow incuse square (Lorbe...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/66/3308/3417783.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE22.10.2016</p><p>HAMMER 231'102 EUR</p><p>MAISON PALOMBO, AUCTION 15, LOT 6262-Macrin (217-218) Aureus - Antioche (217-218) Av. : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite. Rv. : La Félicité debout à gauche, tenant un caducée et une corne d’abondance. D'une insigne rareté et d'une qualité hors norme. Monnaie illustrant le Calico. Probablement le plus bel aureus connu pour Macrin. Provient du trésor de Karnak (1...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/5466/5571540.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE08.01.2019</p><p>HAMMER 218'199 EUR</p><p>CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP, INC., TRITON XXII, LOT 130Greek SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.32 g, 7h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch / Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-left, holding kantharos in right hand and resting his left on his knee, tail behind; N-A-XI-ON around; all within shallow concave circular incuse. Cahn 55.1...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/66/7408/7634546.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE12.12.2020</p><p>HAMMER 148'497 EUR</p><p>MAISON PALOMBO, AUCTION 19, LOT 85Roman Coins Auguste (27-14) - Cistophore - Pergame ou Ephèse ? (27-26). D'une qualité exceptionnelle - Magnifique patine médaillier. Le plus bel exemplaire connu, du meilleur style. Exemplaire de la collection du vicomte Louis de Sartiges (1859-1924) vente Naville XVIII du 10 octobre 1938, N° 37, et de la vente UBS 78 des 9-10 septembre 200...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/2712/2835578.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE05.01.2016</p><p>HAMMER 158'105 EUR</p><p>CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP, INC., TRITON XIX, LOT 44SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.32 g, 7h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch / Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-left, holding kantharos in right hand and resting his left on his knee, tail behind; N-A-XI-ON around; all within shallow concave circular incuse. Cahn 55.1 (V40/R...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/2582/2663914.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE08.10.2015</p><p>HAMMER 119'173 EUR</p><p>NUMISMATICA ARS CLASSICA NAC AG, AUCTION 86, LOT 130The Roman Empire Nero augustus, 54 – 68 Sestertius circa 64, Æ 24.76 g. NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P Laureate bust r. with aegis. Rev. AVGV – STI / S POR OST C View of port of Ostia, at entrance pharos bearing a statue of Neptune, within harbour, seven ships, including one entering at top l. and one docked being unload...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/184/8411/8666853.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE23.10.2021</p><p>HAMMER 112'519 EUR</p><p>LEU NUMISMATIK, AUCTION 8, LOT 297Roman Imperial Otho, 69. Aureus (Gold, 19 mm, 7.26 g, 7 h), Rome, 15 January-9 March 69. IMP OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P Bare head of Otho to right. Rev. SECVRITAS P R Securitas standing front, head to left, holding wreath in her right hand and long scepter in her left. BMC p. 366, † note. Calicó 529. Cohen 21. Mazzini pl. LXIV, 14 ( this coin ). RIC 9...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/17/3337/3448679.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE07.11.2016</p><p>HAMMER 80'000 EUR</p><p>AUKTIONSHAUS H. D. RAUCH GMBH, AUCTION 102, LOT 127ImperiIMPERIUM ROMANUM Plautilla (202-205/211) Publia Fulvia Plautilla als Kaiserin : Plautilla Augusta Geburtsdatum unbekannt. Gestorben Februar 211 n. Chr. (D) Aureus (7,36g), Roma, 205 n. Chr. ( anno 958 ab urbe condita ). Av.: PLAVTILLA - AVGVSTA, bloße Büste mit Drapierung von vorne gesehen n.r. Rv.: DIANA - LV-CIFERA, Diana...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/17/3337/3448673.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE07.11.2016</p><p>HAMMER 80'000 EUR</p><p>AUKTIONSHAUS H. D. RAUCH GMBH, AUCTION 102, LOT 121IMPERIUM ROMANUM Iulia Domna (193-217) Iulia Domna als Kaiserin : Iulia Domna Augusta Geboren Oktober/Dezember 170 n. Chr. in Emesa. Gestorben April 217 n. Chr. in Antiochia. (D) Aureus (7,09g), Roma, 201 n. Chr. ( anno 954 ab urbe condita ). Av.: IVLIA - AVGVSTA, bloße Büste mit Drapierung von vorne gesehen n.r. Rv.: AETERNIT IM...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/579/363191.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE21.03.2007</p><p>HAMMER 64'766 EUR</p><p>NUMISMATICA ARS CLASSICA NAC AG, AUCTION 38, LOT 238The Roman Empire Fausta, wife of Constantine I No.: 238 Estimate: CHF 80000 d=19 mm Solidus, Nicomedia 324-325, AV 4.48 g. FLAV MAX – FAVSTA AVG Draped bust r., wearing pearl necklace. Rev. SALVS REI – PVBLICAE Fausta, draped and veiled, standing facing, head l., holding two children in her arms; in exergue, SMNB. RIC 78. C 5...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/4630/4673794.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE09.01.2018</p><p>HAMMER 62'874 EUR</p><p>CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP, INC., TRITON XXI, LOT 681Roman Republican The Triumvirs. Octavian, Divus Julius Caesar, and Agrippa. 38 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.14 g, 7h). Military mint traveling with Agrippa in Gaul or Octavian in Italy. Wreathed head of the deified Julius Caesar right, facing bare head of Octavian left; DIVOS IVLIVS upward to left, DIVI F downward to right / M · AGRIPPA · COS/DESI...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/62/78/82646.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE16.05.2001</p><p>HAMMER 81'897 EUR</p><p>LEU NUMISMATIK AG (1991-2007), AUCTION 81, LOT 89Sicily Naxos Estimate: CHF 30'000.00 Drachm (Silver, 4.35 g 7), c. 460. Bearded head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath, and with his hair tied in a krobylos at the back; border of dots cut through by the beard, the krobylos and the wreath tips. Rev. Nude, and bearded Silenos squatting, facing, turning his head to the left toward...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/2712/2836215.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE05.01.2016</p><p>HAMMER 55'802 EUR</p><p>CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP, INC., TRITON XIX, LOT 682Petronius Maximus. Usurper, AD 455. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.46 g, 6h). Rome mint. D N PETRONIVS MA-XIMVS P F AVC, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORI A AVCC, Petronius standing facing, holding long cross in right hand and Victory set on globe in left, right foot on human-headed serpent; R-M//COMOB. RIC X 2201; Depeyrot 48/1; ...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/2419/2471928.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE20.05.2015</p><p>HAMMER 43'346 EUR</p><p>NUMISMATICA ARS CLASSICA NAC AG, AUCTION 84, LOT 597Greek Coins Kingdom of Macedonia, Philip II, 359 – 336 and posthumous issues Stater, Amphipolis circa 323-315, AV 8.59 g. Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. Prancing biga r., driven by charioteer holding kentron and reins; below horses, cantharus . In exergue, FILIPPOU. de Sartiges 194 (this coin). Gulbenkian 837 (these dies). Le Rider 25...</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/79/8558/8814020.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>DATE30.11.2021</p><p>HAMMER 42'225 EUR</p><p>NOMOS, AUCTION 23, LOT 27Greek SICILY. Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny, 485-466 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 17.35 g, 3 h), struck under Gelon I, c. 480. Charioteer driving quadriga walking to right, holding goad in his right hand and the reins in his left; above, Nike flying right to crown the horses. Rev. ΣVR-ΑΚ-ΟΣΙ-ΟΝ Diademed head of Arethusa to left, her hair bou...</p><p><br /></p><p>(The Greek coins were sold at auction in 1924, and the Roman coins in 1938, both at Ars Classica auctions -- no relation, I believe, to the present NAC.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Just imagine what the Vicomte's entire collection would sell for at auction today! For example, his collection included an Eid Mar denarius (Lot 24 in the 1938 auction, sold for 625 CHF), but it appears not to have changed hands in the last 20 years, at least not at auction, and/or not identified with that provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Louis, Vicomte de Sartiges himself -- son of Eugene, Comte de Sartiges (1809-1892), the French Minister to the USA in 1852 -- I've been unable to find a photograph. But it's no surprise that during his career as a diplomat (in which he followed in his father's footsteps) he served as Secretary to the French embassy in Washington, D.C.: not only was his father a diplomat who had served in the USA, but his mother was an American. The family is mentioned in a book entitled <i>My First Years as a Frenchwoman, </i>by Mary King Waddington, at p. 66 (see <a href="http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/gu010003.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/gu010003.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/gu010003.pdf</a>):</p><p><br /></p><p>"We . . . were able to get a few interesting people [to a dinner] . . ., Comte et Comtesse de Sartiges, and one or two deputies--bien-pensants. Sartiges was formerly French ambassador in Rome to the Vatican, and a very clever diplomatist. He was very autocratic, did exactly what he liked. I remember quite well some of his small dances at the embassy. The invitations were from ten</p><p>to twelve, and at twelve precisely the musicians stopped playing--no</p><p>matter who was dancing, the ball was over. His wife was an American,</p><p>from Boston, Miss Thorndike [Anna Dodge Thorndike, 1827-1915], who always retained the simple, natural manner of the well-born American. <b>Their son, the Vicomte de Sartiges, has followed in his father's footsteps, and is one of the most serious and intelligent of the young diplomatists."</b></p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, the Vicomte de Sartiges typified a rather obscure sociological phenomenon in France in the late 19th century, prior to the Dreyfus Affair: he was one of a number of aristocratic Frenchmen who married the daughters of wealthy Jewish businessmen. So obviously he was no anti-Semite! (Yes, that matters to me.) Perhaps that explains the family's long association with Jacob Hirsch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus, the Vicomte's first wife (whom he married on 26 Feb. 1886 in Paris and who died at the age of 29 in 1893 in Monaco) was Louise Hortense Goldschmidt, from Frankfurt, one of the three daughters of Leopold Benedict Hayum Goldschmidt and Regine Goldschimdt b. Bischoffsheim. All three daughters married French aristocrats. For anyone interested, there is a French-language article discussing this phenomenon at length, including with respect to the three Goldschmidt daughters, by Cyril Grange, entitled "Les alliances de l'aristocratie avec les familles de financiers juifs à Paris, 1840-1940 : déterminants socio-démographiques et débat religieux," <i>Histoire, économie & société </i>2014/4 (33e année), at pp. 75-93 (available at <a href="https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-economie-et-societe-2014-4-page-75.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-economie-et-societe-2014-4-page-75.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-economie-et-societe-2014-4-page-75.htm</a>).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8154626, member: 110350"]Vespasian thanks you for all the compliments to his aureus -- they mean a great deal, especially given the fantastic collections so many of you have -- and I thank you for posting all these wonderful coins with amazing provenances. A few random facts about the Vicomte de Sartiges and his collection, probably of interest to few people other than me! First, 104 coins from the de Sartiges Collection are listed at acsearch as having been sold at auction since 2000. Of course there must be some duplication from repeated sales, but it's clear nonetheless that it's a well-remembered and valued provenance. Although the provenance for my coin was obviously lost somewhere along the way after 1938, given that it wasn't mentioned in the 2017 Triskeles sale. Without any provenance, the coin sold for about half of what I paid, which just goes to show how much an old provenance can increase the value of a coin, although I'm sure part of the difference is the general increase in prices over the last four years. And perhaps, without any provenance, the price in 2017 was depressed by the noticeable edge cut at 3:00 and the lesser one at 6:00, suggesting a possible history as jewelry. (Which doesn't bother me at all!) In any case, I'm sure mine isn't the only de Sartiges coin whose provenance has been forgotten and waits to be rediscovered. I've been able to find no trace of my coin at all between 1938 and 2017. Also, although I spent considerably more on this coin than I've ever spent on a coin before (but not so much more than I've spent on other things I've collected, like certain antiquities), it's still a mere piker in that universe of 104 de Sartiges coins listed at acsearch, and probably lies towards the bottom of the list. Here are the top 15 highest sales prices from the list [I'm sorry, but it appears that copying and pasting the thumbnail photos from the list doesn't work; perhaps clicking on the link will serve the same purpose]: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=sartiges+vicomte&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1¤cy=eur&order=3[/URL] [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/103/1367/1178628.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE04.01.2012 HAMMER 463'682 EUR THE NEW YORK SALE, AUCTION 27, LOT 271The Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins. MACEDON. Amphipolis (366/5 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm., 14.21g,. Head of Apollo facing, slightly inclined to right, wearing a laurel-wreath. Rev. AMΦ-IΠO-ΛIT-EΩN on a broad frame of a raised linear square enclosing a race-torch, a cicada on inner left, all within a broad shallow incuse square (Lorbe... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/66/3308/3417783.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE22.10.2016 HAMMER 231'102 EUR MAISON PALOMBO, AUCTION 15, LOT 6262-Macrin (217-218) Aureus - Antioche (217-218) Av. : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite. Rv. : La Félicité debout à gauche, tenant un caducée et une corne d’abondance. D'une insigne rareté et d'une qualité hors norme. Monnaie illustrant le Calico. Probablement le plus bel aureus connu pour Macrin. Provient du trésor de Karnak (1... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/5466/5571540.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE08.01.2019 HAMMER 218'199 EUR CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP, INC., TRITON XXII, LOT 130Greek SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.32 g, 7h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch / Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-left, holding kantharos in right hand and resting his left on his knee, tail behind; N-A-XI-ON around; all within shallow concave circular incuse. Cahn 55.1... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/66/7408/7634546.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE12.12.2020 HAMMER 148'497 EUR MAISON PALOMBO, AUCTION 19, LOT 85Roman Coins Auguste (27-14) - Cistophore - Pergame ou Ephèse ? (27-26). D'une qualité exceptionnelle - Magnifique patine médaillier. Le plus bel exemplaire connu, du meilleur style. Exemplaire de la collection du vicomte Louis de Sartiges (1859-1924) vente Naville XVIII du 10 octobre 1938, N° 37, et de la vente UBS 78 des 9-10 septembre 200... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/2712/2835578.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE05.01.2016 HAMMER 158'105 EUR CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP, INC., TRITON XIX, LOT 44SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.32 g, 7h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch / Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-left, holding kantharos in right hand and resting his left on his knee, tail behind; N-A-XI-ON around; all within shallow concave circular incuse. Cahn 55.1 (V40/R... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/2582/2663914.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE08.10.2015 HAMMER 119'173 EUR NUMISMATICA ARS CLASSICA NAC AG, AUCTION 86, LOT 130The Roman Empire Nero augustus, 54 – 68 Sestertius circa 64, Æ 24.76 g. NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P Laureate bust r. with aegis. Rev. AVGV – STI / S POR OST C View of port of Ostia, at entrance pharos bearing a statue of Neptune, within harbour, seven ships, including one entering at top l. and one docked being unload... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/184/8411/8666853.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE23.10.2021 HAMMER 112'519 EUR LEU NUMISMATIK, AUCTION 8, LOT 297Roman Imperial Otho, 69. Aureus (Gold, 19 mm, 7.26 g, 7 h), Rome, 15 January-9 March 69. IMP OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P Bare head of Otho to right. Rev. SECVRITAS P R Securitas standing front, head to left, holding wreath in her right hand and long scepter in her left. BMC p. 366, † note. Calicó 529. Cohen 21. Mazzini pl. LXIV, 14 ( this coin ). RIC 9... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/17/3337/3448679.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE07.11.2016 HAMMER 80'000 EUR AUKTIONSHAUS H. D. RAUCH GMBH, AUCTION 102, LOT 127ImperiIMPERIUM ROMANUM Plautilla (202-205/211) Publia Fulvia Plautilla als Kaiserin : Plautilla Augusta Geburtsdatum unbekannt. Gestorben Februar 211 n. Chr. (D) Aureus (7,36g), Roma, 205 n. Chr. ( anno 958 ab urbe condita ). Av.: PLAVTILLA - AVGVSTA, bloße Büste mit Drapierung von vorne gesehen n.r. Rv.: DIANA - LV-CIFERA, Diana... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/17/3337/3448673.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE07.11.2016 HAMMER 80'000 EUR AUKTIONSHAUS H. D. RAUCH GMBH, AUCTION 102, LOT 121IMPERIUM ROMANUM Iulia Domna (193-217) Iulia Domna als Kaiserin : Iulia Domna Augusta Geboren Oktober/Dezember 170 n. Chr. in Emesa. Gestorben April 217 n. Chr. in Antiochia. (D) Aureus (7,09g), Roma, 201 n. Chr. ( anno 954 ab urbe condita ). Av.: IVLIA - AVGVSTA, bloße Büste mit Drapierung von vorne gesehen n.r. Rv.: AETERNIT IM... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/579/363191.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE21.03.2007 HAMMER 64'766 EUR NUMISMATICA ARS CLASSICA NAC AG, AUCTION 38, LOT 238The Roman Empire Fausta, wife of Constantine I No.: 238 Estimate: CHF 80000 d=19 mm Solidus, Nicomedia 324-325, AV 4.48 g. FLAV MAX – FAVSTA AVG Draped bust r., wearing pearl necklace. Rev. SALVS REI – PVBLICAE Fausta, draped and veiled, standing facing, head l., holding two children in her arms; in exergue, SMNB. RIC 78. C 5... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/4630/4673794.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE09.01.2018 HAMMER 62'874 EUR CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP, INC., TRITON XXI, LOT 681Roman Republican The Triumvirs. Octavian, Divus Julius Caesar, and Agrippa. 38 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.14 g, 7h). Military mint traveling with Agrippa in Gaul or Octavian in Italy. Wreathed head of the deified Julius Caesar right, facing bare head of Octavian left; DIVOS IVLIVS upward to left, DIVI F downward to right / M · AGRIPPA · COS/DESI... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/62/78/82646.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE16.05.2001 HAMMER 81'897 EUR LEU NUMISMATIK AG (1991-2007), AUCTION 81, LOT 89Sicily Naxos Estimate: CHF 30'000.00 Drachm (Silver, 4.35 g 7), c. 460. Bearded head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath, and with his hair tied in a krobylos at the back; border of dots cut through by the beard, the krobylos and the wreath tips. Rev. Nude, and bearded Silenos squatting, facing, turning his head to the left toward... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/2712/2836215.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE05.01.2016 HAMMER 55'802 EUR CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP, INC., TRITON XIX, LOT 682Petronius Maximus. Usurper, AD 455. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.46 g, 6h). Rome mint. D N PETRONIVS MA-XIMVS P F AVC, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORI A AVCC, Petronius standing facing, holding long cross in right hand and Victory set on globe in left, right foot on human-headed serpent; R-M//COMOB. RIC X 2201; Depeyrot 48/1; ... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/2419/2471928.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE20.05.2015 HAMMER 43'346 EUR NUMISMATICA ARS CLASSICA NAC AG, AUCTION 84, LOT 597Greek Coins Kingdom of Macedonia, Philip II, 359 – 336 and posthumous issues Stater, Amphipolis circa 323-315, AV 8.59 g. Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. Prancing biga r., driven by charioteer holding kentron and reins; below horses, cantharus . In exergue, FILIPPOU. de Sartiges 194 (this coin). Gulbenkian 837 (these dies). Le Rider 25... [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/79/8558/8814020.s.jpg[/IMG] DATE30.11.2021 HAMMER 42'225 EUR NOMOS, AUCTION 23, LOT 27Greek SICILY. Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny, 485-466 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 17.35 g, 3 h), struck under Gelon I, c. 480. Charioteer driving quadriga walking to right, holding goad in his right hand and the reins in his left; above, Nike flying right to crown the horses. Rev. ΣVR-ΑΚ-ΟΣΙ-ΟΝ Diademed head of Arethusa to left, her hair bou... (The Greek coins were sold at auction in 1924, and the Roman coins in 1938, both at Ars Classica auctions -- no relation, I believe, to the present NAC.) Just imagine what the Vicomte's entire collection would sell for at auction today! For example, his collection included an Eid Mar denarius (Lot 24 in the 1938 auction, sold for 625 CHF), but it appears not to have changed hands in the last 20 years, at least not at auction, and/or not identified with that provenance. As for Louis, Vicomte de Sartiges himself -- son of Eugene, Comte de Sartiges (1809-1892), the French Minister to the USA in 1852 -- I've been unable to find a photograph. But it's no surprise that during his career as a diplomat (in which he followed in his father's footsteps) he served as Secretary to the French embassy in Washington, D.C.: not only was his father a diplomat who had served in the USA, but his mother was an American. The family is mentioned in a book entitled [I]My First Years as a Frenchwoman, [/I]by Mary King Waddington, at p. 66 (see [URL]http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/gu010003.pdf[/URL]): "We . . . were able to get a few interesting people [to a dinner] . . ., Comte et Comtesse de Sartiges, and one or two deputies--bien-pensants. Sartiges was formerly French ambassador in Rome to the Vatican, and a very clever diplomatist. He was very autocratic, did exactly what he liked. I remember quite well some of his small dances at the embassy. The invitations were from ten to twelve, and at twelve precisely the musicians stopped playing--no matter who was dancing, the ball was over. His wife was an American, from Boston, Miss Thorndike [Anna Dodge Thorndike, 1827-1915], who always retained the simple, natural manner of the well-born American. [B]Their son, the Vicomte de Sartiges, has followed in his father's footsteps, and is one of the most serious and intelligent of the young diplomatists."[/B] In addition, the Vicomte de Sartiges typified a rather obscure sociological phenomenon in France in the late 19th century, prior to the Dreyfus Affair: he was one of a number of aristocratic Frenchmen who married the daughters of wealthy Jewish businessmen. So obviously he was no anti-Semite! (Yes, that matters to me.) Perhaps that explains the family's long association with Jacob Hirsch. Thus, the Vicomte's first wife (whom he married on 26 Feb. 1886 in Paris and who died at the age of 29 in 1893 in Monaco) was Louise Hortense Goldschmidt, from Frankfurt, one of the three daughters of Leopold Benedict Hayum Goldschmidt and Regine Goldschimdt b. Bischoffsheim. All three daughters married French aristocrats. For anyone interested, there is a French-language article discussing this phenomenon at length, including with respect to the three Goldschmidt daughters, by Cyril Grange, entitled "Les alliances de l'aristocratie avec les familles de financiers juifs à Paris, 1840-1940 : déterminants socio-démographiques et débat religieux," [I]Histoire, économie & société [/I]2014/4 (33e année), at pp. 75-93 (available at [URL]https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-economie-et-societe-2014-4-page-75.htm[/URL]).[/QUOTE]
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