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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24598860, member: 26430"]What a good idea for a topic... I think I may have a whole month's worth of additional Juno's to post & talk about, but I'll try to stay within reason...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Here are a couple of my Juno Sospita's with some interesting backstories. </b></p><p><br /></p><p>The previous owner of the first wasn't a collector of ancients. Unfortunately, after NGC noted "deposits," he freaked out, thinking it was like a "Details" grade and the coin is no longer "collectable" (!).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562761[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps he was overcome by Juno's spirit of renewal and purification, because he proceeded to crack open the case and try to scrub it clean! </p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever NGC gave him on his resubmission must've pleased him even less, since he gave up and sold it to his LCS, who sold it to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>(At least he kept photos to pass on!)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>My other specimen is a "brockage." (These are fun!) I like it better:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562762[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In keeping with Juno's unchanging spirit of "eternal youth," I dug out the older auction photos from 1981 and 1998 (thanks to the <a href="http://numismatics.org/authority/schaefer_richard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/authority/schaefer_richard" rel="nofollow">R. Schaefer binders & Roman Republican Die Project at ANS</a> and Liv Yarrow's <font size="4"><a href="https://livyarrow.org/digital-resources/schaefer-guide/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://livyarrow.org/digital-resources/schaefer-guide/" rel="nofollow">Schaefer Guide</a></font>). </p><p><br /></p><p>Juno looked just as good back in 1981 and 1998, as she did when the Alba Longa Collection was sold at Aureo y Calico in 2019!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Finally, does a Hera count as Juno if she was struck under Marc Antony & Cleopatra? <b>(From Greek Olympia, Elis, but under Roman control.)</b></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a storied middle bronze (Dupondius or Diassarion?) -- both as a type and specimen. The type itself has a highly controversial history of dating, which has changed dramatically from one generation to the next.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562765[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>At one time, these were dated to the 4th or 3rd century BCE. One proponent was P.R. Franke [1984], in whose collection this coin resided for ~10 years prior to his death! (See his article on the excavations at Elis, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44431985" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44431985" rel="nofollow">Olympia und Seine Münzen</a>, in <i>Antike Welt</i> 15.)</p><p><br /></p><p>More recently, though, opinion has shifted toward a date in the late Roman Republican/Imperatorial period, possibly in the mid-30s BCE, under Antony & Cleopatra, shortly before the Battle of Actium. (E.g., Jennifer Warren, “<a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/topoi_1161-9473_1997_num_7_1_1713" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/topoi_1161-9473_1997_num_7_1_1713" rel="nofollow">The New Landscape</a>,” and O. Hoover / CNG's <i>HGC</i> series. <i>However</i>, <a href="https://books.openedition.org/efa/7967?lang=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.openedition.org/efa/7967?lang=en" rel="nofollow">Wojan [Obolos 10]</a> has recent made a vigorous case for pushing it back again to the 3rd Cent.!!)</p><p><br /></p><p>As with other Roman Provincials, especially when struck to the standards of Roman denominations, can we imagine some contemporary audiences receiving this object as depicting the Latin Juno, rather than strictly a Greek Hera?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562770[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In a rare bit of luck, I've been able to trace this coin's chain of custody back nearly to its unearthing c. 1880s-1890s. It was sold as "Ex Sammlung P.R. Franke," but I recognized it from the Morcom Collection (which gave Ars Classica XV), and eventually found more as well</p><p><br /></p><p>- Ex <a href="http://coinhoards.org/id/igch0216" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinhoards.org/id/igch0216" rel="nofollow">IGCH 216</a> (unknown findspot, 1887-1894) [<i>who dispersed them? Was it</i> Canon [Rev.] William Greenwell (1820-1918)?];</p><p>- Gustav Philipsen (Copenhagen, 1853-1925) Collection; Hirsch XXV (25 Nov 1909), 1300; </p><p>- Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928) Collection [Naville's "amateur étranger récemment décédé"?]; Naville Ars Classica XV (2 Jul 1930), Lot 809; </p><p>- Lt. Col. Reginal Keble Morcom (1877-1961) Collection; Christopher Morcom Collection; CNG MBS 76 (12 September 2007), Lot 562 ; </p><p>- Sammlung P.R. Franke (1926-2018); Solidus Auktion 108 (8 November 2022), Lot 137.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><br /></p><p>(I've been intermittent in my activity, but do we do these for the other months? I like it!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24598860, member: 26430"]What a good idea for a topic... I think I may have a whole month's worth of additional Juno's to post & talk about, but I'll try to stay within reason... [B]Here are a couple of my Juno Sospita's with some interesting backstories. [/B] The previous owner of the first wasn't a collector of ancients. Unfortunately, after NGC noted "deposits," he freaked out, thinking it was like a "Details" grade and the coin is no longer "collectable" (!). [ATTACH=full]1562761[/ATTACH] Perhaps he was overcome by Juno's spirit of renewal and purification, because he proceeded to crack open the case and try to scrub it clean! Whatever NGC gave him on his resubmission must've pleased him even less, since he gave up and sold it to his LCS, who sold it to me. (At least he kept photos to pass on!) [B]My other specimen is a "brockage." (These are fun!) I like it better:[/B] [ATTACH=full]1562762[/ATTACH] In keeping with Juno's unchanging spirit of "eternal youth," I dug out the older auction photos from 1981 and 1998 (thanks to the [URL='http://numismatics.org/authority/schaefer_richard']R. Schaefer binders & Roman Republican Die Project at ANS[/URL] and Liv Yarrow's [SIZE=4][URL='https://livyarrow.org/digital-resources/schaefer-guide/']Schaefer Guide[/URL][/SIZE]). Juno looked just as good back in 1981 and 1998, as she did when the Alba Longa Collection was sold at Aureo y Calico in 2019! [B]Finally, does a Hera count as Juno if she was struck under Marc Antony & Cleopatra? [B](From Greek Olympia, Elis, but under Roman control.)[/B][/B] Here's a storied middle bronze (Dupondius or Diassarion?) -- both as a type and specimen. The type itself has a highly controversial history of dating, which has changed dramatically from one generation to the next. [ATTACH=full]1562765[/ATTACH] At one time, these were dated to the 4th or 3rd century BCE. One proponent was P.R. Franke [1984], in whose collection this coin resided for ~10 years prior to his death! (See his article on the excavations at Elis, [URL='https://www.jstor.org/stable/44431985']Olympia und Seine Münzen[/URL], in [I]Antike Welt[/I] 15.) More recently, though, opinion has shifted toward a date in the late Roman Republican/Imperatorial period, possibly in the mid-30s BCE, under Antony & Cleopatra, shortly before the Battle of Actium. (E.g., Jennifer Warren, “[URL='https://www.persee.fr/doc/topoi_1161-9473_1997_num_7_1_1713']The New Landscape[/URL],” and O. Hoover / CNG's [I]HGC[/I] series. [I]However[/I], [URL='https://books.openedition.org/efa/7967?lang=en']Wojan [Obolos 10][/URL] has recent made a vigorous case for pushing it back again to the 3rd Cent.!!) As with other Roman Provincials, especially when struck to the standards of Roman denominations, can we imagine some contemporary audiences receiving this object as depicting the Latin Juno, rather than strictly a Greek Hera? [ATTACH=full]1562770[/ATTACH] In a rare bit of luck, I've been able to trace this coin's chain of custody back nearly to its unearthing c. 1880s-1890s. It was sold as "Ex Sammlung P.R. Franke," but I recognized it from the Morcom Collection (which gave Ars Classica XV), and eventually found more as well - Ex [URL='http://coinhoards.org/id/igch0216']IGCH 216[/URL] (unknown findspot, 1887-1894) [[I]who dispersed them? Was it[/I] Canon [Rev.] William Greenwell (1820-1918)?]; - Gustav Philipsen (Copenhagen, 1853-1925) Collection; Hirsch XXV (25 Nov 1909), 1300; - Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928) Collection [Naville's "amateur étranger récemment décédé"?]; Naville Ars Classica XV (2 Jul 1930), Lot 809; - Lt. Col. Reginal Keble Morcom (1877-1961) Collection; Christopher Morcom Collection; CNG MBS 76 (12 September 2007), Lot 562 ; - Sammlung P.R. Franke (1926-2018); Solidus Auktion 108 (8 November 2022), Lot 137. [B] [/B] (I've been intermittent in my activity, but do we do these for the other months? I like it!)[/QUOTE]
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