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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8515320, member: 26430"]Congratulations, beautiful example! [<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9001503" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9001503" rel="nofollow">Larger photos</a>.] Toward 4-5h on the obv., I wonder if those are traces of overstriking? I see a faint dotted border, but the coin doesn't look double-struck, so I wonder if that's an under-type? I think some of them were struck over other earlier Italian staters, but not sure which.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you probably know, it's ex-Collection of Mark Salton-Schlessinger (1914-2005) of the Hamburger-Schlessinger-Salton extended family of important numismatists, c. late 19th-20th cent. (He changed his name upon immigrating to US, but often used a hyphenated name.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, I struck out in the Stack's sale in Jan. Hope I do better in the Romans coming up (not nearly as spectacular as the Greek). I did get some ex-Salton Library books from Kolbe & Fanning.</p><p><br /></p><p>For anyone into numis. biblio. & bio. (including "object biography"/provenance), Kunker made the valuable volume below available free (in German or English trans.).</p><p><br /></p><p>My biblio. notes:</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Kampmann, Ursula. 2022. <i>The Origins of the German Coin Trade: The Hamburger and Schlessinger Families</i>. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolph Künker. </font></p><p><font size="4"><i>Keywords</i>: Salton, Schlessinger, Hamburger, provenance, biography, German numismatists.</font></p><p><font size="4"><i>See also</i>: <a href="https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n07.html#article16" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n07.html#article16" rel="nofollow">Kampmann's article</a> (13 Feb 2022) in <i>The E-Sylum</i> Vol 25 (no 7): Article 16 [* highly recommend]. <a href="https://coinsweekly.com/the-origins-of-the-german-coin-trade-brochure-on-the-fate-of-the-hamburger-and-schlessinger-families/." target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinsweekly.com/the-origins-of-the-german-coin-trade-brochure-on-the-fate-of-the-hamburger-and-schlessinger-families/." rel="nofollow">CoinsWeekly announcement</a> (31 Mar 2022).</font></p><p><font size="4">[Eng. trans. PDF <a href="https://issuu.com/kuenkercoins/docs/kuenker_broschuere_salton-collection_en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/kuenkercoins/docs/kuenker_broschuere_salton-collection_en" rel="nofollow">on Issuu</a>; direct link to PDF: <a href="https://www.kuenker.de/data/kataloge/Kuenker_Broschuere_Salton-Collection_en.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kuenker.de/data/kataloge/Kuenker_Broschuere_Salton-Collection_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.kuenker.de/data/kataloge/Kuenker_Broschuere_Salton-Collection_en.pdf</a> ]</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Here's my one coin ex-Salton (as a dealer, though he sold "collection" duplicates too), purchased by Ken Bressett in 1957 ($8!), from <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9197336" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9197336" rel="nofollow">CNG's Keystone 6</a> in March:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1505768[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The books (Kolbe & Fanning's photo): I was mainly interested in the Pozzi catalog, but I was thrilled to discover almost all the volumes had sheets laid in of the Saltons' typed notes and/or Mark Salton's correspondence with editors/publishers going back to the 1970s:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1505769[/ATTACH]</p><p>Relatedly, from my collection of sale catalogs, Mark Salton's father, Felix Schlessinger's 1939 final auction, while in exile in Amsterdam, shortly before the Nazis finally got him. Purchased from ANS Library Duplicates:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1505770[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8515320, member: 26430"]Congratulations, beautiful example! [[URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9001503']Larger photos[/URL].] Toward 4-5h on the obv., I wonder if those are traces of overstriking? I see a faint dotted border, but the coin doesn't look double-struck, so I wonder if that's an under-type? I think some of them were struck over other earlier Italian staters, but not sure which. As you probably know, it's ex-Collection of Mark Salton-Schlessinger (1914-2005) of the Hamburger-Schlessinger-Salton extended family of important numismatists, c. late 19th-20th cent. (He changed his name upon immigrating to US, but often used a hyphenated name.) Unfortunately, I struck out in the Stack's sale in Jan. Hope I do better in the Romans coming up (not nearly as spectacular as the Greek). I did get some ex-Salton Library books from Kolbe & Fanning. For anyone into numis. biblio. & bio. (including "object biography"/provenance), Kunker made the valuable volume below available free (in German or English trans.). My biblio. notes: [INDENT][SIZE=4] Kampmann, Ursula. 2022. [I]The Origins of the German Coin Trade: The Hamburger and Schlessinger Families[/I]. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolph Künker. [I]Keywords[/I]: Salton, Schlessinger, Hamburger, provenance, biography, German numismatists. [I]See also[/I]: [URL='https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n07.html#article16']Kampmann's article[/URL] (13 Feb 2022) in [I]The E-Sylum[/I] Vol 25 (no 7): Article 16 [* highly recommend]. [URL='https://coinsweekly.com/the-origins-of-the-german-coin-trade-brochure-on-the-fate-of-the-hamburger-and-schlessinger-families/.']CoinsWeekly announcement[/URL] (31 Mar 2022). [Eng. trans. PDF [URL='https://issuu.com/kuenkercoins/docs/kuenker_broschuere_salton-collection_en']on Issuu[/URL]; direct link to PDF: [URL]https://www.kuenker.de/data/kataloge/Kuenker_Broschuere_Salton-Collection_en.pdf[/URL] ][/SIZE][/INDENT] Here's my one coin ex-Salton (as a dealer, though he sold "collection" duplicates too), purchased by Ken Bressett in 1957 ($8!), from [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9197336']CNG's Keystone 6[/URL] in March: [ATTACH=full]1505768[/ATTACH] The books (Kolbe & Fanning's photo): I was mainly interested in the Pozzi catalog, but I was thrilled to discover almost all the volumes had sheets laid in of the Saltons' typed notes and/or Mark Salton's correspondence with editors/publishers going back to the 1970s: [ATTACH=full]1505769[/ATTACH] Relatedly, from my collection of sale catalogs, Mark Salton's father, Felix Schlessinger's 1939 final auction, while in exile in Amsterdam, shortly before the Nazis finally got him. Purchased from ANS Library Duplicates: [ATTACH=full]1505770[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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