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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8231939, member: 26430"]Byzantine coin I recently purchased from CNG (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8931081" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8931081" rel="nofollow">link to ACSeach record</a>) because it was described as <i>only</i> “reportedly” Hugh Goodacre Collection (and, later, Luis A. Lopez Martinez Collection who acquired it at Downie-Lepczyk 70 (17 Sep 1986), Lot 275, unillustrated).</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>John III Ducas Vatatzes. Empire of Nicaea. Æ Tetarteron (20mm, 3.29 g, 6h). Magnesia mint, 1222-1254. DOC 56; SB 2114; see Goodacre refs. below.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>With a little research I found this as well (at some point I'll give it a full post):</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>- Ex Hugh George Goodacre (1865-1952) Collection;</p><p>- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University (Goodacre Loan by Mrs. N.J. Goodacre, housed at the Heberden Coin Room), c. 1952-1986;</p><p><br /></p><p>- Illustrated in:</p><p>1. Hugh George Goodacre (1957, 1965 [part III, 1933]) <i>A Handbook of Coinage in the Byzantine Empire</i>, page 312, No. 3 (this coin illustrated).</p><p>2. Goodacre. 1931. “<a href="https://jstor.org/stable/42660764" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://jstor.org/stable/42660764" rel="nofollow">Notes on Some Rare Byzantine Coins</a>.” <i>Numismatic Chronicle</i> Vol. 11, No. 43: 151-159. Page 157, No. 7 (as John I Vatatzes) & Plate XI, No. 11 (this coin illustrated). [.pdf downloaded]</p><p>3. Goodacre. 1938. “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42664191" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42664191" rel="nofollow">The Flat Bronze Coinage of Nicaea</a>.” <i>Numismatic Chronicle</i> Vol 18: 159-164. Page 159, No. 1A (this coin illustrated, citing Sabatier LXIV, 12).</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>Based on leads found in Goodacre's text, I found the following.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Uncertain but likely</b></i>:</p><blockquote><p>- Ex Ducal House of Saxe-Coburg, Gotha, and collection of M. Curt de Bose (Curt von Bose, 1808-1884), Leipzig, prior to 1842.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Likely the model illustrated:</p><p>4. de Saulcy’s essay in <i>Revue Numismatique</i> (1842: Pl. XIX No. 7) [and later serving as the model for 5, cited in 6, below, all referenced above in Goodacre's (1938) "Flat"];</p><p>5. Sabatier (1862: p. 293 & Pl. LXIV, fig. 12). One of two coins serving as models for Leon Dardel’s illustrations, Figs. 11 & 12.</p><p>6. Cited in (not illustrated: Wroth’s <i>BMC Vandals</i> (p. 219, note 1).</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>All illustrations in <a href="https://imgur.com/a/jM9V0o3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imgur.com/a/jM9V0o3" rel="nofollow">this temp. Imgur album</a> (until I post elsewhere). On tracing provenances & "plate coins" from line-drawings: Silvia Hurter (2008) “Torremuzza’s SEGESTANORVM,” <i>AJN</i> 20: pp. 113-117, Pl. 37-40 [<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580307" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580307" rel="nofollow">on JSTOR</a> (best plates, but no .pdf download) & <a href="https://archive.org/details/AJNSecond2008Vols20to20/page/n123/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/AJNSecond2008Vols20to20/page/n123/" rel="nofollow">on Archive.org</a> (poor plates, but .pdf avail.)].</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447326[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Next</b>: Prior collection provenance or publication found “in the wild” (information you found that wasn’t shared by the dealer -- doesn't have to be extensive, just any fun or interesting discovery)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8231939, member: 26430"]Byzantine coin I recently purchased from CNG ([URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8931081']link to ACSeach record[/URL]) because it was described as [I]only[/I] “reportedly” Hugh Goodacre Collection (and, later, Luis A. Lopez Martinez Collection who acquired it at Downie-Lepczyk 70 (17 Sep 1986), Lot 275, unillustrated). [INDENT]John III Ducas Vatatzes. Empire of Nicaea. Æ Tetarteron (20mm, 3.29 g, 6h). Magnesia mint, 1222-1254. DOC 56; SB 2114; see Goodacre refs. below.[/INDENT] With a little research I found this as well (at some point I'll give it a full post): [INDENT]- Ex Hugh George Goodacre (1865-1952) Collection; - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University (Goodacre Loan by Mrs. N.J. Goodacre, housed at the Heberden Coin Room), c. 1952-1986; - Illustrated in: 1. Hugh George Goodacre (1957, 1965 [part III, 1933]) [I]A Handbook of Coinage in the Byzantine Empire[/I], page 312, No. 3 (this coin illustrated). 2. Goodacre. 1931. “[URL='https://jstor.org/stable/42660764']Notes on Some Rare Byzantine Coins[/URL].” [I]Numismatic Chronicle[/I] Vol. 11, No. 43: 151-159. Page 157, No. 7 (as John I Vatatzes) & Plate XI, No. 11 (this coin illustrated). [.pdf downloaded] 3. Goodacre. 1938. “[URL='https://www.jstor.org/stable/42664191']The Flat Bronze Coinage of Nicaea[/URL].” [I]Numismatic Chronicle[/I] Vol 18: 159-164. Page 159, No. 1A (this coin illustrated, citing Sabatier LXIV, 12). [/INDENT] Based on leads found in Goodacre's text, I found the following. [I][B]Uncertain but likely[/B][/I]: [INDENT]- Ex Ducal House of Saxe-Coburg, Gotha, and collection of M. Curt de Bose (Curt von Bose, 1808-1884), Leipzig, prior to 1842. - Likely the model illustrated: 4. de Saulcy’s essay in [I]Revue Numismatique[/I] (1842: Pl. XIX No. 7) [and later serving as the model for 5, cited in 6, below, all referenced above in Goodacre's (1938) "Flat"]; 5. Sabatier (1862: p. 293 & Pl. LXIV, fig. 12). One of two coins serving as models for Leon Dardel’s illustrations, Figs. 11 & 12. 6. Cited in (not illustrated: Wroth’s [I]BMC Vandals[/I] (p. 219, note 1).[/INDENT] All illustrations in [URL='https://imgur.com/a/jM9V0o3']this temp. Imgur album[/URL] (until I post elsewhere). On tracing provenances & "plate coins" from line-drawings: Silvia Hurter (2008) “Torremuzza’s SEGESTANORVM,” [I]AJN[/I] 20: pp. 113-117, Pl. 37-40 [[URL='https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580307']on JSTOR[/URL] (best plates, but no .pdf download) & [URL='https://archive.org/details/AJNSecond2008Vols20to20/page/n123/']on Archive.org[/URL] (poor plates, but .pdf avail.)]. [ATTACH=full]1447326[/ATTACH] [B]Next[/B]: Prior collection provenance or publication found “in the wild” (information you found that wasn’t shared by the dealer -- doesn't have to be extensive, just any fun or interesting discovery)[/QUOTE]
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