Post your pedigreed coins

A few months ago, I posted a thread about how to describe a pedigree. Did anyone actually start using those guidelines? If so, or if you want to try, post one of your pedigreed coins here. I'll share with you my most extensive provenance:

THESSALY, The Oitaioi. Circa 167-146 BC.
AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.30 g, 1h)
Lion’s head left, spear in its jaws
OITAI downward to right, ΩN downward to left, Herakles standing facing, holding club in both hands
Valassiadis 9; BCD Thessaly II 494 (same obverse die)

Ex BCD Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 290), lot 57; Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 199; Vinchon (20 May 1959), lot 483; M. Ratto 11 (16 May 1935), lot 239; R. Ratto (4 April 1927), lot 1023; Naville-Ars Classica V (18 June 1923), lot 1764 ​

 

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I hope you don't mind this photo. It is a US no-stars dime from Eliasberg. :smile

I don't have any ancient coins to contribute.

 

Despite it's youthful, mirror like surfaces and plastic coffin, that's still a nice coin. Care to describe the sale pedigree?

 

I paid attention to your earlier thread. Did I do this one correctly?

ATTICA, Athens,
AR Tetradrachm. (Owl)
449-413 B.C.

17.1 grams, 23-25 mm
Obv: Helmeted head of Athena facing
rt in crested ornamented helmet
Rev: Owl standing right, head facing;
olive sprig & crescent to left and
AΘΕ to right all in incuse square.
Grade: Well-defined XF, fairly well
centered and complete.
Other: Good silver 7.5 mm thick.
Sear 2526; SNG Cop 31; BMC 11.62.
Huge quantity struck to pay for the
rebuilding of the Athenian temples.
Ex Mark Bir Estate (Daniel Sedwick
#13, April 2011), lot 1313.

 

Way to go! The pound sign before the sale number is unnecessary, though. Good job.

 

Thrace, Byzantion AR Tetradrachm
(387-339 BC)
Obv.: Heifer standing left on dolphin; monogram above and under raised leg.
Rev.: Granular quadripartite incuse square.
Schönert-Geiss 688 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 4 var. (monogram).

Ex Chris Connell Collection (VAuctions 238), lot 7; George Bauer Collection (Glendining's, 23 January 1963), lot 1010; Mathey Collection (Feuardent, 9 June 1913), lot 146.

 

I don't have many coins with any known provenance.
This is one of the few that I have. Not that extensive but having gone through the hands of two specialists in the field.

Probus, Billon tetradrachm
Obv:– A K M AVP PROBOC CEB, Laureate, cuirassed bust right
Rev:– None, Dikaiosyne (Aequitas) seated left, holding scales and cornucopia
Minted in Alexandria Egypt. LE in left field. Year 5. A.D. 279-280
Milne 4594. Emmett 3980(5) R4. Curtis 1845. BMC -.

Ex-Keith Emmett Collection (private sale); Olympus #5 catalogue (December 1982); Col. James W. Curtis Collection.

Keith Emmett - Author of "Alexandrian Coins" (Emmett)
Col. James W. Curtis - Author of "Tetradrachms of Roman Egypt" (Curtis)

Described by Col. Curtis as "Very Rare" on his 2x2 coin holder, which still accompanies the coin.

Regards,
Martin
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I only have the date purchased & price recorded. I cannot remember the auction house without going through a bunch of receipts. If it were Teletrade Auction 999 lot #2560 on June, 11, 2008 then I suspect the pedigree would be something simple like this:

Ex Eliasberg Estate, (Teletrade Auction #999, June 11, 2008), lot 2560.

 

I bet you could chase down a pedigree before 2008, if you had access to the old catalogues. It had to have gone somewhere between Eliasberg and Teletrade!

 

I have a few with a short provenance, and I'm unsure how to dig up any more information/history. However, here is one:

ARCADIA MEGALOPOLIS AR Triobol
OBV: Laureate head of Zeus left
REV: Pan seated left, holding lagobolon; eagle on knee, monogram before, D/L behind
Stuck at Megalopolis, 182-168 BC
2.160g, 14mm
Dengate 13
Ex Superior, 30 May 1995, lot 7462 (Lewis Egnew Collection)

 

Ex Lewis L. Egnew Collection (Superior, 30 May 1995), lot 7462.

Your first step in researching a pedigree should be to search for recent auction appearances. This is best done on CoinArchives Pro, as it has many more auctions represented than the free ACSearch. Next, check in major sales of this material. I would bet anything your coin is from the BCD Collection, but definitely from one of the many unillustrated group lots or private sales. Do you have a small, round ticket with it?

 

No, I didn't receive it from the seller, HJB.

 

Private sale, or buy/bid?

 

I would like to post three.

1. i only have three..
2. they are a set..
3. its my Birthday..

Constantine l The Great..post AD. 337..
Ob. Divo Constantino P, veiled bust right..
Rev. Aeterna Pietas, Emperor standing left,
holding globe and spear..
Mint Trier
16mm x 1.4g.
Rairty 7

Ex. sternberg auction 9/1992
Ex. Failmezger collection
current Eng

 

Maximianus ..317-318..AD.

Ob. Divo Maximiano, laureate veiled bust right..
Rev. Veiled emperor seated left..
Mint Siscia..
16mm x 1.2g.
Rarity 6

Ex. Malloy auction 1992
Ex. Failmezger collection
current Eng

 

I may have done you one better:

I believe this is the same coin, the only 1837 10C Small Date listed in Eliasberg's retired registry set. It has an estimated grade of AU58 although it is listed here as an AU55: http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/Major_collections/Eliasberg.htm

"[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Edouard Frossard's New Jersey Collection sales, March 8-9, 1898; J.M. Clapp, Clapp estate, 1942 to Louis Eliasberg, Sr.; Louis Eliasberg Sale, May 20-22, 1996, Bowers and Merena;"[/FONT]

It would be worth finding a catalog to match the plates if they have it photographed but I think you've got a good shot at an 1898 provenance.

 

Claudius ll Gothicus ..317- 318..AD..

Ob. Clavdivs ll Gothicvs, laureate veiled bust right.
Rev. Veiled Emperor seated left on curule chair..
Mint..Thessalonica
16mm x 1.2g..
Rarity 5

Ex. French hoard.. 7/1993
Ex. Failmezger collection..
current Eng..

 

Private sale

 

Sicily, Syracuse. Hieron I AR Tetradrachm

478-466 BC
Struck circa 478-475 BC
Diameter: 24 mm
Weight: 16.90 grams
Obverse: Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses
Reverse: Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around
Reference: Boehringer series IXa, 190 (V86/R130); SNG ANS –; Randazzo 356 (same dies)
Other: 2h, Near VF, toned, test cut on reverse
From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection, Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1132
Triton XVI (Gitbud & Naumann, CNG Electronic Auction 294, Item #84), Jan/16/2013

 

Sicily, Syracuse Æ Hemidrachm
Timoleon and the Third Democracy

344-317 BC
Timoleontic Symmachy coinage. 1st series, circa 344-339/8 BC
Diameter: 24 mm
Weight: 16.94 grams
Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right
Reverse: Upright thunderbolt; to right, eagle standing right
Reference: Castrizio series I, 1γ; CNS 72; SNG ANS 477-88
Other: 9h, Good VF, red-brown patina, a few areas of roughness, some cleaning marks
From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection,

=> Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1227

Triton XVI (Gitbud & Naumann, CNG Electronic Auction 294, Item #119), Jan/16/2013 ​