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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 8154751, member: 57495&quot;]Amazing coin, Donna!&nbsp; It definitely scores bonus points for a reverse type that is not just &quot;someone standing there.&quot; I bought an aureus for the first time just last year, but it was a much humbler coin.&nbsp; At some point, I&#039;d like to get one in higher grade and with an interesting reverse... something like your coin would more than fit the bill.&nbsp; The Vicomte de Sartiges pedigree is a wonderful provenance to have for it too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin below is fairly common and tiny in size, but comes with an outsize pedigree.&nbsp; I&#039;m proud to be its latest and least illustrious owner. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422737[/ATTACH]<b>TROAS, Neandria</b></p><p>AR Obol. 0.60g, 8.5mm. Circa 4th century BC. SNG Copenhagen 446; SNG von Aulock 7628; Warren 1046 = BMFA 1633 (<i>this coin illustrated</i>). O: Laureate head of Apollo right. R: NEAN, Ram standing right.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection</i></p><p>Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001) was born in Romania, and during World War II, she and her husband Vladimir were sent by the Gestapo to Buchenwald concentration camp. They survived their 3-year imprisonment and when the war was over, moved to Italy, where they worked in the numismatic trade. In 1951, they moved to the United States, where their knowledge and passion for numismatics led to them becoming curators of National Numismatics Collection at the Smithsonian. They were also authors of numerous important reference works and together curated a vast personal collection of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby&#039;s new York, 19 June 1991, lot 578 (part of)</i></p><p>Though the Hunt provenance was listed in the Naville sale that I acquired this coin from, I don&#039;t have this particular catalogue and haven&#039;t been able to confirm this provenance.&nbsp; Lot 578 appears to have been a group lot and probably not every coin in it was pictured.&nbsp; Possibly the catalogue may have indicated to the coin&#039;s prior provenance to the 1980 NFA VIII sale.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ex Boston Museum of Fine Arts (NFA VIII, 1980, lot 218)</i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1422738[/ATTACH] </i></p><p>Noted in the NFA catalogue as being from the Warren and Greenwell collections.&nbsp; Listed and illustrated in Agnes Baldwin Brett&#039;s <i>Catalogue of Greek Coins</i> (1955) of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts as no. 1633.&nbsp; Edward Warren was a benefactor of the Museum and worked closely with it to establish its ancient coin cabinet.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422741[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ex Edward P. Warren Collection</i></p><p>Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928) was an American antiquarian and art connoisseur from Boston who built a remarkable collection of art and antiquities.&nbsp; He most famously owned the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Cup" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Cup" rel="nofollow">Warren Cup</a>, now in the possession of the British Museum.&nbsp; He also commissioned from Auguste Rodin the copy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Rodin_sculpture)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Rodin_sculpture)" rel="nofollow">The Kiss</a> that is now on display at the Tate Gallery.&nbsp; In 1902, he acquired 1,016 ancient Greek coins including this one from Canon Greenwell, all of which were amongst the 1,769 coins listed in Kurt Regling&#039;s <i>Griechischen Münzen Sammlung Warren</i> (1906). While Brett&#039;s 1955 BMFA catalogue states the concordance of this coin (BMFA 1633) with one in the Regling catalog of Warren&#039;s collection (Warren 1046), it&#039;s unfortunately not one of those illustrated in the Regling plates, presumably because it&#039;s a type duplicate of Warren 1047, which was illustrated.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422740[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ex Canon Greenwell Collection</i></p><p>William Greenwell (1820-1918) was a priest, archaeologist and collector from Durham, England.&nbsp; His large collection of British antiquities was acquired by J.P. Morgan, who then gifted it to the British Museum.&nbsp; His sizeable collection of Greek coins was sold to Edward Warren in 1902 and used in part to establish the coin cabinet of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.&nbsp; He was the author of British Barrows (1877), The Electrum Coinage of Cyzicus (1887), and Rare Greek Coins (1893).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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