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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8285232, member: 26430&quot;]<font face="Arial"><font size="5">You can read the history of the firm here <a href="https://www.peus-muenzen.de/en/history.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.peus-muenzen.de/en/history.aspx" rel="nofollow">on their website</a> or a very short history <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG228947" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG228947" rel="nofollow">on the British Museum site</a> (very useful source for numismatic biographies, though this one is a bit short).&nbsp; They were an outgrowth of Adolph Hess Nachf., caused by the impact of the Nazi regime on the coin market. Also discussed in Hadrien Rambach&#039;s </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/28256076/A_List_of_Coin_Dealers_in_nineteenth_century_Germany" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/28256076/A_List_of_Coin_Dealers_in_nineteenth_century_Germany" rel="nofollow">A List of Coin Dealers in nineteenth-century Germany</a> and his &quot;<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">Provenance glossary</a>&quot; (also useful resources on history of ancient coins and provenance research).</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="5">It was named for Dr. Busso Peus (1902-1983) -- not to be confused with his cousin, the politician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busso_Peus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busso_Peus" rel="nofollow">Busso Peus</a> -- who ran the business from 1933-1943 and 1950-1967. (It seems he was drafted into the military, and then in captivity, 1943-1950, but I don&#039;t know the whole story. Rambach writes in his &quot;List of Coin Dealers&quot; that &quot;Peus lost his license to operate in 1943, but obtained it back after the war.&quot;)</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="5">It&#039;s a common tradition at German firms to continue operating under the name of the founder even after gone.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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