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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7876827, member: 110350&quot;]Congratulations, [USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER]; it&#039;s a beautiful coin. As it happens, I purchased a coin from cgb.fr at retail a couple of months ago with the same provenance, namely the collection of Aymé Cornu. The end of the description gives the very sparse information I was able to find about him:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 3 (118/119 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, drapery on left shoulder, AYT KAIC TPAIANOC -AΔΡΙΑNOC ϹƐΒ (clockwise from 5:00) / Rev. Serpent Agathodaemon standing erect right, crowned with pschent/skhent [the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt] , tongue protruding, with coils enfolding caduceus to left and stalks of corn to right; L - Γ (Year 3) across fields. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 5149 (2015); RPC III Online at&nbsp; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5149" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5149" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5149</a>; Emmett 803.3; BMC 16 Alexandria 665 (at p. 79) (1892) [ill. as RPC Vol. III 5149, specimen 2]; K&amp;G 32.68 (at p. 118); Dattari (Savio) 1541; Milne 918 [ill. as RPC Vol. III 5149, specimen 13]; Geissen 764 [ill. as RPC Vol. III 5149, specimen 18]. 24 mm., 13.81 g., 12 h. <i>Purchased from </i><a href="http://www.cgb.fr/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/" rel="nofollow"><i>http://www.cgb.fr</i></a><i> July 2021, ex. Collection of Aymé Cornu (1926-2020) (Engineer. - Head of the mass spectrometry laboratory at the Center for Nuclear Studies in Grenoble, France; see </i><a href="https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/).*" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/).*" rel="nofollow"><i>https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/)</i>.</a> [Footnotes omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1357803[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously, his interests must have been very eclectic if they included both Roman Alexandrian billon tetradrachms and 14th century gold florins! He lived until he was 94, so I suppose he had time for all of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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