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Message:: [QUOTE="WuntBeDruv, post: 24887528, member: 115520"]I acquired this Alexandrian drachm of Antoninus Pius back in November, partly because it was cheap but also because it had been catalogued incorrectly. This is a rare coin with only two others listed on RPC (IV.1, no. 1055). However, I was pleasantly surprised when it turned up with several tickets and a larger piece of paper. The auction house provenance was delightfully vague, 'Ex Albert Reevs (sic?) collection'. [ATTACH=full]1598526[/ATTACH] In total there are two tickets, one probably from the 70's or 80's (?) and written out with typewriter on blue card, the other handwritten and probably from the last 10-20 years. There is additionally a photocopy of a handwritten catalogue entry (from page 209, apparently) with a scan or rubbing of the coin labelled '562'. In the bottom right corner of this photocopy is what I presume to be its origin: 'J Johnson 16.5.86'. This looks like the sort of thing a collector might make to keep track of their coins in addition to writing tickets.  [ATTACH=full]1598527[/ATTACH] So, if anybody knows who 'Albert Reevs' is, I'd be highly grateful for some pointers. Plugging various variations on 'Reevs' into acsearch results only in a Pegasi Numismatics entry from 2019 which refers to a Corinthian hemidrachm previously in the collection of one Charles Reeves, active as a collector 1890-1930.[/QUOTE]