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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8270732, member: 26430"]Vespasian "Judaea Capta" AE As. As I've commented before, one of my favorite sub-collections is "barbarians, captives, and enemies" on Roman coins. It's my first Judaea Capta RIC bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459700[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin also fits my other favorite collection theme: History of numismatics.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know if Mark Salton-Schlessinger collected any Romans (none in the auctions so far, but another ancient group is scheduled), but as a dealer he sold this coin in 1957. The provenance is important, since he comes from a family of prominent numismatists (Schlessinger, Hamburger, et al.) who were Jewish, most of their coins and other property seized by the Nazis, and most of them murdered in the Holocaust.</p><p><br /></p><p>The purchaser of the coin in 1957 was another important numismatist: Kenneth Bressett (1928 - ), whose collection CNG just sold at Keystone Auction 6. Bressett primarily specializes in U.S. Coins, having written extensively and served in many offices of the American Numismatic Association. He was ANA President in 1995.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459701[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Bressett's biography is on pp. 50-51 of Pete Smith's (2021 ed.) <a href="https://archive.org/details/2012AmericanNumismaticBiographies" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/2012AmericanNumismaticBiographies" rel="nofollow"><i>American Numismatic Biographies</i></a> (on Archive; or <a href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/304?page=49" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/304?page=49" rel="nofollow">here on NNP</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>I purchased several other group and single lots from his collection, but this is my favorite (others include 6 from 1936 Dorchester Hoard, 6 from "Lincoln Higgie Hoard [1967, Turkey]," plus a couple more groups of late Roman AE3s). Aside from the custom CNG tags, it's the only one with additional collector tags/ envelopes--one in Bressett's handwriting (envelope, center) and one in Salton's (label, left).</p><p>[ATTACH]1459702[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>3 of the Lincoln Higgie Hoard Constantines:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459703[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As I see it, $16-17 each is a very good price for large Imperial AE, especially since they were from the very interesting collection of an important numismatist -- Ken Bressett.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8270732, member: 26430"]Vespasian "Judaea Capta" AE As. As I've commented before, one of my favorite sub-collections is "barbarians, captives, and enemies" on Roman coins. It's my first Judaea Capta RIC bronze. [ATTACH=full]1459700[/ATTACH] The coin also fits my other favorite collection theme: History of numismatics. I don't know if Mark Salton-Schlessinger collected any Romans (none in the auctions so far, but another ancient group is scheduled), but as a dealer he sold this coin in 1957. The provenance is important, since he comes from a family of prominent numismatists (Schlessinger, Hamburger, et al.) who were Jewish, most of their coins and other property seized by the Nazis, and most of them murdered in the Holocaust. The purchaser of the coin in 1957 was another important numismatist: Kenneth Bressett (1928 - ), whose collection CNG just sold at Keystone Auction 6. Bressett primarily specializes in U.S. Coins, having written extensively and served in many offices of the American Numismatic Association. He was ANA President in 1995. [ATTACH=full]1459701[/ATTACH] Bressett's biography is on pp. 50-51 of Pete Smith's (2021 ed.) [URL='https://archive.org/details/2012AmericanNumismaticBiographies'][I]American Numismatic Biographies[/I][/URL] (on Archive; or [URL='https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/304?page=49']here on NNP[/URL]). I purchased several other group and single lots from his collection, but this is my favorite (others include 6 from 1936 Dorchester Hoard, 6 from "Lincoln Higgie Hoard [1967, Turkey]," plus a couple more groups of late Roman AE3s). Aside from the custom CNG tags, it's the only one with additional collector tags/ envelopes--one in Bressett's handwriting (envelope, center) and one in Salton's (label, left). [ATTACH]1459702[/ATTACH] 3 of the Lincoln Higgie Hoard Constantines: [ATTACH=full]1459703[/ATTACH] As I see it, $16-17 each is a very good price for large Imperial AE, especially since they were from the very interesting collection of an important numismatist -- Ken Bressett.[/QUOTE]
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