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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8285348, member: 110350&quot;]Here&#039;s another interesting article on German coin dealerships with long histories, including Busso Peus: <a href="https://coinsweekly.com/germanys-oldest-coin-dealerships/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinsweekly.com/germanys-oldest-coin-dealerships/" rel="nofollow">https://coinsweekly.com/germanys-oldest-coin-dealerships/</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why those German provenance listings can take a while to type, like the provenance for the Arcadius solidus I bought last year:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Purchased from Dr. Busso Peus Nachf., Frankfurt, Germany, 1 April 2021. Ex. Auktionen Münzhandlung Sonntag Auktion 33 Lot 36 (23.11. 2020); ex. Auktion 116 München Münzhandlung Karl Kreß [Kress](Otto Helbing Nachfolger), Lot 729 (28.10.1960).</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I do find it rather interesting that Karl Kreß followed that tradition by continuing to include the name of Otto Helbing (who had founded the company in 1878) for quite some time after he took over that company in the 1930s -- at least up to 1960 -- even though the circumstances of the acquisition were distinctly questionable, namely a forced sale at a a severe discount through the process of Aryanization. And even though after the war Helbing&#039;s company was actually returned to the Hirsch family (Gerhard Hirsch, etc.), which owned the company at the time of the Aryanization. They operated it under their own name (see the Coins Weekly article), so it seems there were two different &quot;successors&quot; of Helbing operating as coin dealers in the 1950s.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&nbsp;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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