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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 8219993, member: 95174&quot;]Ok I did get this new book or better yet catalog today. It was a work in Simon Bendall&#039;s library. The seller described it as interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Byzantine Copper Coins described as&quot; A small collection of Byzantine copper coins including a number from Western Mints, a few of considerable rarity and some of great interest which cannot at present be attributed.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The collection was from <b>Michael Dennis O&#039;hara</b>, one of the cowriters of Byzantine Coins and their values. The others <b>David Sear</b> and <b>Simon Bendall. </b></p><p><br /></p><p>So I immediately check it out, I wanted to see the unattributed, I also saw it had a Alexius II coin and I wanted to see that too (No Alexius II coins are known.) first thing, it is not a book but a preparation for auction catalog, when this auction occurred, or if it occurred, I do not know. The author had passed away in 2014. The pages are large cut outs of the coins, this must have been a prep before printing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Upper left REX coin now attributed to Richard the Lion Heart in Cyprus. Then Alexius II Comnenus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443381[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another set of photos.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443382[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now this one caught my attention, I have one of those, then I looked more closely, <b>it is my coin</b>. A Latin tetarteron. ( Center Coin.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443383[/ATTACH]</p><p>My photo</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443385[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So I got a new and interesting book, my coin that was purchased last year as a unknown coin from Heidelberger Münzhandlung Herbert Grün e. K. Now suddenly has a new provenance, as being from the collection of one of the contributors to SBCV. Dennis Michael Ohara.</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of his bio describing where his collection sold on the DO web site.</p><p><br /></p><p>His collection, including the Tiber hoard coins, was sold in a joint-auction by Leu Numismatik and Numismatica Ars Classica in Zürich on 26 May 1993, partly to the then famous antiquities dealer Robin Symes. After his death, a few coins from his Nachlass appeared in Morton and Eden 75, 2 July 2015, where DO bought two 7th-century silver coins struck in Sardinia (BZC.2015.043 and BZC.2015.044).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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