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<p>[QUOTE="harrync, post: 3927699, member: 58588"]I don't have the Hunt catalog, but I do have the catalogs for the Metropolitan Museum sale, that was the source of many of the Hunt coins. The Met sale was a bit controversial, for several reasons. It broke up what was perhaps the finest aureus collection ever assembled. There was an attempt to have it transferred to the ANS, but the Met would not agree. [There was talk that the Hunt brothers, major Met donors, put pressure on the Met to go through with the sale, because they coveted some of those coins.] The excuse for the sale was the Met needed three million dollars to buy this fantastic Greek vase. The final irony was that the vase was looted, and the Met had to give it up. So the Met ended up with no coins, no vase, no three million dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="harrync, post: 3927699, member: 58588"]I don't have the Hunt catalog, but I do have the catalogs for the Metropolitan Museum sale, that was the source of many of the Hunt coins. The Met sale was a bit controversial, for several reasons. It broke up what was perhaps the finest aureus collection ever assembled. There was an attempt to have it transferred to the ANS, but the Met would not agree. [There was talk that the Hunt brothers, major Met donors, put pressure on the Met to go through with the sale, because they coveted some of those coins.] The excuse for the sale was the Met needed three million dollars to buy this fantastic Greek vase. The final irony was that the vase was looted, and the Met had to give it up. So the Met ended up with no coins, no vase, no three million dollars.[/QUOTE]
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