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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8286251, member: 26430&quot;]I just emailed to Kolbe &amp; Fanning, by the way, so they won&#039;t reproduce that description in their future catalogs, and may be able to point me to others who thought they were the same (can&#039;t remember where else, but I think I saw one other person make the same mistake).</p><p><br /></p><p>Very good background about Kress in your post, by the way. (And I see [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] also included useful background on Kress in her original post about the Arcadius.) All those are linked/quoted in my notes now! That must&#039;ve taken a lot of research, since I haven&#039;t found a whole lot about him that&#039;s readily accessible (in English or German, which I don&#039;t really even read!).</p><p><br /></p><p>And those are very fascinating coins from AMCC Auction 2. I only noticed them after the auction. The history of the ancient coin trade around WWII is one of my minor areas of interest, so I really wished I&#039;d bid (interesting that another Curtis ([USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER] ) was also bidding)!</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, I&#039;d be concerned too and want to investigate the source, but the best thing to do about it is to share the coins publicly alongside the provenance (as you did, and as the auction catalog did), so that if they can be traced to looted property, people can find them. (If someone tracked my coins down that way, I think I&#039;d be very excited -- though, it might sting a bit if it was something very expensive or a coin I was attached to for many years!) I do have one coin I knew to be ex-Kress, but 1961. It seemed extremely difficult to actually identify specific looted coins and books, though I gave it a good faith attmept.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some amazing accounts of Mark Salton-Schlessinger (he changed his name to Salton on moving to the US, but then started using Salton-Schlessinger at times) tracking down coins and books that had been seized from his father, Felix Schlessinger. Apparently he spent decades at it. I assume many were included in the Stack&#039;s sale of his collection a few months ago, based on the provenances given. (Another sale of his ancient coin collection was announced, which I was happy about, since I got none of his coin collection so far, just&nbsp; his library.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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