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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8250040, member: 26430&quot;]Yes I&#039;ve been noticing it for several weeks whenever I go to bid on the Celtic coins. I didn&#039;t realize it was a new thing...</p><p><br /></p><p>I only started checking his inventory when I realized he&#039;s selling the coins from Hermann Lanz&#039;s collection of Celtic coins (again!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, <i>does anyone know why (Hubert) Lanz is in possession (again) of so many of his father&#039;s collection of Celtic coins</i> after it sold at Roma over several auctions ca. 2019?</p><p><br /></p><p>(Don&#039;t get me wrong, I&#039;m glad for another shot at them!)</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins didn&#039;t go unsold, so I can only assume he bought a great many of them himself. I thought that very odd since I assumed he was also the consignor/executor of his father&#039;s numismatic estate. And even more so, since he didn&#039;t then keep them but has been reselling them slowly on ebay (often getting less than they hammered originally).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the example I got from Savoca (21 Nov 2021) after being sold by Hubert Lanz on eBay (26 Sep 2021), after having purchased it from <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6333375" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6333375" rel="nofollow">Roma Auction 18 (29 Sep 2019), 115</a>. Many others have followed a similar route. The Roma photo &amp; description follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453265[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4">The Prof. Hermann Lanz Collection</font></p><p><font size="4">Celts in Eastern Europe AR Drachm. Baumreiter Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, bearded head to right / Rider on horseback to left. Göbl, OTA pl. 13, 134/1; Lanz 422 (this coin). 3.35g, 15mm, 10h.</font></p><p><font size="4">Very Fine. Rare.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">From the Hermann Lanz Collection; this coin published in M. Kostial, Kelten im Osten - Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa - Sammlung Lanz (Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, 1997);</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">This coin exhibited by the Staatlichen Münzsammlung München at the 1997 International Numismatic Congress in Berlin; at the Berliner Bank also in 1997; also exhibited at the Luitpoldblock Palmengarten, Munich in 2003 (exhibition #84[obverse]).</font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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