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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8290518, member: 26430&quot;]Regarding the provenance to Holm et al., this is indeed a Danish provenance... I&#039;ve cut-and-pasted my provenance file notes about Holm below. He had an interesting relationship to Copenhagen Cabinet / SNG Cop.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have only one coin provenanced to Johann Christian Holm (1914-1987), which he had acquired as an SNG Copenhagen Duplicate from the Danish National Museum. (Not pretty! Previously shared in my post on &quot;<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/394619/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/394619/">Museum Coins</a>.&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/1459051/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Johan Christian Holm (Copenhagen, 1914-1987). </b>Danish professional numismatist, coin dealer. According to <i>The Celator </i>(Oct 1994, p. 28), Baldwin’s Auction 3 (5 Oct 1994) dispersed his personal “collection of Roman silver portrait coins, as well as aes grave and other ancient coins” (<a href="https://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.08-No.10-Oct-1994.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.08-No.10-Oct-1994.pdf" rel="nofollow">direct link to .pdf Vol 8, No 10</a>; see also <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7359042" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7359042" rel="nofollow">catalog listing from BFA</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>Holm produced 7 catalogs, the first six 1951-1955, and the seventh in 1976 (believed to be a complete set, all described as <a href="https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/library/salescatalogue/SALECH-L.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/library/salescatalogue/SALECH-L.html" rel="nofollow">“lists” by Fitzwilliam Museum</a>). A plurality of coins provenanced to him in ACSearch records are ancient (Greek and Roman), but also some Danish and German, among others. (Also was one of the world’s few specialists in coins of Greenland!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Twenty-five years after his death, BCD wrote of him:</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">“Mr. Holm, a wonderfully warm and friendly person after one got to know him well, would never miss an opportunity to advise this writer not only of interesting ancient coins that would appear in the Copenhagen market but also of paintings that could be of potential interest.” [<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1174669" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1174669" rel="nofollow">CNG Triton XV, “BCD Thessaly II” (3 Jan 2012), 278</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>According to the account given by BCD (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860023" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860023" rel="nofollow">“Lokris-Phokis,” 130.2</a>), Holm acquired and dispersed a “large quantity of Copenhagen ‘duplicates’ [from the National Danish Museum] … excluded from the SNG publication” (enough for BCD to have “spent many hours sorting out the more desirable pieces”):</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">“In the early 60’s, Mr. Holm exchanged a unique and extremely important early Danish coin for many boxes of the Copenhagen museum’s Greek duplicates that were not published in the SNG. The writer was shown some of these boxes and spent many hours sorting out the more desirable pieces for his collection. When the time came to pay, Mr. Holm said that the buyer would have to work out the prices as he himself was not up to date with the Greek coin market. This was quite unexpected and a very clever move from the part of the seller as it made the buyer quote very generous figures so that the seller would not for a moment think that the buyer was trying to take advantage of him. Needless to say, this was by no means the last visit to Mr. Holm’s shop. As there were no other interested parties for this material, the writer ended up buying practically everything that was within his collecting areas.” [<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1174701" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1174701" rel="nofollow">CNG Triton XV, “BCD Thessaly II” (3 Jan 2012), Lot 760</a>; see also, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860023" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860023" rel="nofollow">NAC 55, “BCD Lokris-Phokis” (8 Oct 2010), Lot 130.2</a>, citing “Information given in the 70’s to this writer by the late J. - C. Holm.”]</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>BCD acquired those coins from Holm in the 1960s and 1970s, many of whose provenances are likely now lost. At least a dozen of the SNG Copenhagen Duplicates were cataloged in BCD collection sales, including e-auctions (multiple coins each from BCD Akarnania-Aetolia and BCD Lokris-Phokis; at least one each from BCD Thessaly II and BCD Peloponnesos; and duplicates from the above sales).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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