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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3203163, member: 96898&quot;][USER=91240]@SeptimusT[/USER] : What a nice coin! It was also in the Peus auction, wasn&#039;t it?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have a small theory on this but can&#039;t fully prove it: Hommel regularly used his private collection in his teaching at Tübingen university. In his obituary, Hommel&#039;s pupil Eberhard Heck mentions this: &quot;Hommel established numismatics as a field of research and teaching at Tübingen. He used his private collection for numismatic seminars, liked to bring coins to oral exams, and in 1959 established a numismatic research center&quot; (Eberhard Heck: Hildebrecht Hommel, in: Gnomon 69,7 (1997), pp. 651–656, cit. pp. 655f; translated from the German). If you look at pictures of Hommel&#039;s collection as the one below (from the Peus catalogue), you can see that there are tags apparently written by a number of different hands. The style of these tags is more &#039;official&#039; than the format he used for the tags made by himself. Maybe Hommel had his academic assistants and/or students re-tag parts of his collection for teaching and research purposes?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]829473[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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