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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 24704798, member: 83845&quot;]Fantastic that you would devote such energy to helping a fellow member with provenance research. Hats off to you sir.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>One of my favorite coins in my “12 Olympian Portraits Collection” is this Dionysus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578234[/ATTACH]</p><p>BOEOTIA, Thebes</p><p>AR Stater, struck ca. 425-400 BC</p><p>(22 mm, 3h, 11.84 g)</p><p>Obv.: Boeotian shield.</p><p>Rev.: Θ-Ε Bearded head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath.</p><p>Ref.: BCD Boiotia 438. An attractive, toned example.</p><p>Ex Collection of Kommerzienrat Heinrich Otto Jr. (H Otto), Stuttgart (1856-1931), Adolph Hess Nachf. (Luzern) Auktion 207, Lot 422 (Dec. 1, 1931); Ex W. F. Stoecklin Collection, Amriswil (1888-1975), acquired from Münzen und Medaillen in Basel prior to 1975; Ex Obolos 8, lot 224 (Dec. 2, 2017)</p><p><br /></p><p>I am sure that you are aware of the German industrialists whose collection this came from. It is one of my favorite portraits and provenances. Published in Hess 207 in 1931.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578235[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: More interesting portraits![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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