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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 3945660, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>@Dougsmith <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-post-your-hadrians.236881/page-46#post-3665180" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-post-your-hadrians.236881/page-46#post-3665180">in a recent post</a> noted that <i>&quot;Several museums numbered coins in the distant past. Many are just ink or paint and can be removed BUT I would suggest selling it to someone who is not bothered by the number and buying a coin you like. I would love to know where my coins were marked and why the collection was dispersed.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Me too!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have only one, sold by Amphora in Nov. 1988 and labelled ex-Carnegie Collection. The reverse shows the old museum accesion number 13513• above Athena&#039;s shield in india ink.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1039848[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Athena Promachos Tetradrachms, First Reduced Standard, c 306-c 300 BCE</b></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><b>Size:</b> 28 mm </p><p><b>Weight:</b> 14.1g </p><p><b>Die Axis:</b> 11:00</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Obv:</b> Alexander the Great, wearing horn of Zeus-Ammon, diademmed head facing right, clad in elephant scalp and scaly aegis tied by snakes. Delta at top of aegis below Alexanders ear. Dotted border.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Athena Promachos striding right on tiptoe, brandishing spear and shield. She wears a helmet, a girdled chiton and a scarf falling in swallow-tail folds. In left field: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ[Υ], in right field: eagle on thunderbolt, above which are monogram for KP and a Corinthian helmet. Dotted border.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Refs: </b>CPE-70; Sv-164, pl vi, 3 [37 listed]; BMC 06.004, #032; Zervos (1974), Issue 29 [99 recorded, from 11 obverse dies]. Zervos (1976), Artist A, Styles 2 &amp; 3. Known with obv die link to CPE 71.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Note:</b> Was unsold (at $475) from Amphora List #26 (10 Sep 1985); was Lot#272 in a previous Amphora list.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>After some research I read that the Carnegie collections coins were sold off starting in 1982 ( a Google search turned up a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/23/arts/numismatics-part-of-carnegie-museum-collection-to-be-sold-by-ed-reiter.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/23/arts/numismatics-part-of-carnegie-museum-collection-to-be-sold-by-ed-reiter.html" rel="nofollow">NYT article </a>at </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/23/arts/numismatics-part-of-carnegie-museum-collection-to-be-sold-by-ed-reiter.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/23/arts/numismatics-part-of-carnegie-museum-collection-to-be-sold-by-ed-reiter.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/23/arts/numismatics-part-of-carnegie-museum-collection-to-be-sold-by-ed-reiter.html</a> ). Searching more, I found that Spink sold off the &quot;Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh&quot; collection in 1985 (Spink Auction 43, 18 April 1985).<i> I don&#039;t know if my coin is from that sale (yes or no) - if anyone has access to it and could let me know I&#039;d be very much obliged.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for reading this far. Now I&#039;d enjoy seeing yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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