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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8155687, member: 110350&quot;]With the new information from [USER=94602]@pprp[/USER] -- for which I thank him profusely, although I still hope that [USER=84047]@Voulgaroktonou[/USER] has an opportunity to consult the book in the U. of Cincinnati Classics Library, so he can make and send me copies of some of the pages -- I have revised the description of my coin&#039;s provenance in the title of this thread, which stated that the provenance goes &quot;to 1938 and perhaps to 1910.&quot; It now says that the provenance goes &quot;to 1938 and also to 1910&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also revised the end of my description of the coin in my personal catalog. Until now, it took the form set forth in the OP. It will now read as follows; the added text is in boldface:</p><p><br /></p><p>Vespasian AV Aureus, 75 AD (Cos VI), Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, IMP CAESAR - VESPASIANVS AVG [counter-clockwise from 5:00] / Rev. Victory holding palm branch in left hand and wreath in outstretched right hand, standing left on cista mystica flanked by two coiled serpents with heads pointing upwards*, PON MAX - TR P COS VI [clockwise from 8:00]. Two small edge dents/cuts on obverse at 3:00 and 6:00 (possibly from old jewelry mount). 19 mm., 7.22 g. RIC II-1 Vespasian 775 (2007 ed.), old RIC II Vespasian 82 (1926 ed.), BMCRE 168, Cohen 370, Sear RCV I 2254 (ill. p. 431). <i>Purchased from Arete Coins, Seattle, WA, Dec. 2021; ex. Triskeles Auctions Sale 21, Lot 392, 29 Sep. 2017; ex. Ars Classica XVIII (“COLLECTION TRÈS IMPORTANTE MONNAIES ROMAINES FORMÊE PAR UN DIPLOMATE ÉTRANGER DEPUIS LONGTEMPS DÉCÉDÉ”[Collection of Vicomte de Sartiges]), Lot 144 [ill. Pl. 6], 10 Oct. 1938, l&#039;Hôtel Schweizerhof, Lucerne, Switzerland (Experts Dr. Jacob Hirsch &amp; M. Lucien Naville); ex. Collection of Louis, Vicomte de Sartiges (1859-1924)<b>, published in Sartiges, Vicomte de, “Collection du vicomte de Sartiges. Séries grecque et romaine, en 1910, ainsi que les acquisitions depuis cette date”</b></i></p><p><b><i>(Paris, D.A. Longuet; Plates I-XLIII published 1910; undated supplement contains five additional plates), Pl. XXVI, No. 105 [this coin, acquired before 1910]. </i></b>[Footnotes omitted.][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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