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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8313747, member: 75937&quot;]From an <a href="https://www.academia.edu/33906715/_Provenance_glossary_" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/33906715/_Provenance_glossary_" rel="nofollow">NAC auction catalog</a> (pp. 96-97 toward the bottom):</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>VOIROL (1884-1967), AUGUST.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dr. Voirol had discovered numismatics by chance during the summer of 1933, when he noticed some coins in the front window of the Adlerbank in Basel, and acquired a stater of Alexander the Great and a solidus of Valens. He then met the dealers Hans Nussbaum (Zurich) and Herbert Cahn (Basel), and became passionate about coins: he was naturally and immediately elected President of the Circulus Numismaticus Basiliensis when it was created in 1938, and acted 1942-1954 as vice-president of the Swiss Numismatic Society.</p><p><br /></p><p>A successful career as gynecologist allowed him to build a beautiful house in 1935 with an original sestertius of Faustina Junior mounted on the front door, he nevertheless had limited means and had to carefully choose the coins&nbsp; which he purchased: this might explain why, when his collection was sold by Münzen und Medaillen (auction 38) in December 1968, it “only” contained 915 lots. He was also a shareholder of that firm, and a scholar who wrote lengthy commentaries on almost each of his coins, as well as some published notes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Biblio.:Schweizer Münzblätter, vol. 18 (1968), p. 22; John Spring, Ancient Coins Auction Catalogues 1880-1980, London 2009, p. 170. </p><p><br /></p><p>George W. La Borde collection: NAC 105, 2018, 56[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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