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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8470565, member: 26430"]Wow, picking just one favorite RIC is harder than I realized! This may not be my one most favoritest (I probably hold that for my sentimental Sestertius of Hadrian, my first RIC, purchased on a trip to Europe with my parents in the 1980s when I was maybe 8 yo). But it is definitely <i>a </i>favorite for the portrait, the toning, and the provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Vespasian Denarius, deaccessioned from the American Numismatic Society (with museum tag showing accession number, 1001.22362) and the Hispanic Society of America Collections, donated from the Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955) Collection in the 1940s. (Almost all the Huntington coins share a complicated, fascinating, and well-documented chain-of-custody over the past ~80 years [esp. the last 10]. The ANS sued the HSA to stop them from being sold and it stirred up a huge years-long international controversy. They were eventually sold, and many donated back to the ANS. The ANS then sold many of them as duplicates! I've got almost a dozen entries for this coin's changes of custody in my full notes, most of which are shared by all ex-Huntington's on the private market.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1500289[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b><font size="6">NEXT</font></b><font size="6">: Another coin with an </font><b><font size="6">interesting story</font></b></p> <p style="text-align: center">(story of any kind, doesn't have to be long)</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8470565, member: 26430"]Wow, picking just one favorite RIC is harder than I realized! This may not be my one most favoritest (I probably hold that for my sentimental Sestertius of Hadrian, my first RIC, purchased on a trip to Europe with my parents in the 1980s when I was maybe 8 yo). But it is definitely [I]a [/I]favorite for the portrait, the toning, and the provenance. Vespasian Denarius, deaccessioned from the American Numismatic Society (with museum tag showing accession number, 1001.22362) and the Hispanic Society of America Collections, donated from the Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955) Collection in the 1940s. (Almost all the Huntington coins share a complicated, fascinating, and well-documented chain-of-custody over the past ~80 years [esp. the last 10]. The ANS sued the HSA to stop them from being sold and it stirred up a huge years-long international controversy. They were eventually sold, and many donated back to the ANS. The ANS then sold many of them as duplicates! I've got almost a dozen entries for this coin's changes of custody in my full notes, most of which are shared by all ex-Huntington's on the private market.) [ATTACH=full]1500289[/ATTACH] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]NEXT[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=6]: Another coin with an [/SIZE][B][SIZE=6]interesting story[/SIZE][/B] (story of any kind, doesn't have to be long)[/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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