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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 8032604, member: 96898&quot;]Great coin with a splendid provenance, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER] !</p><p><br /></p><p>I have several ex-Hommel coins myself, which isn&#039;t too surprising. Hildebrecht Hommel owned one of the most substantial private numismatic collections, encompassing about 8.000 Roman coins and including an allegedly complete set of Republican denarii. He had inherited part of his collection from his father, the well-known German Orientalist Fritz Hommel (1854-1936) and added to it extensively. The fact that multiple generations worked on it sometimes makes it difficult to understand the tickets that come with coins from the Hommel collection. Below are some examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was bought by Hildebrecht Hommel from Peus in 1973:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391536[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Roman Republic, moneyer: Q. Caecilius Metellus Balearicus, AR denarius, 130 BC, Rome mint. Obv: Q·METE (ligated); head of Roma, helmeted, r.; before, crossed X. Rev: ROMA; Jupiter in quadriga, r., holding reins and thunderbolt in l. hand and branch in r. hand. 20mm, 3.87g. RRC 256/1. Ex Peus, Lagerliste 26, lot 99 (1973); ex Hommel collection; ex Kölner Münzkabinett.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>It came with two old tickets. The ticket on the left is Hildebrecht Hommel&#039;s own. The one on the right is younger and was written by somebody else. At some point, Hildebrecht Hommel had his Republican collection reorganized. For this occasion, these characteristic red and black tickets were written by a number of different people (maybe Hommel&#039;s research assistants at Tübingen?):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391533[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My second coin, on the other hand, was already owned by Hildebrecht&#039;s father Fritz Hommel:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391537[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Roman Republic, moneyer: M. Caecilius Metellus, AR denarius, 127 BC, Rome mint. Obv: ROMA; head of Roma, helmeted, r.; before, X. Rev: M·METELLVS·Q·F; Macedonian shield decorated with elephant&#039;s head. 18mm, 3.83g. RRC 263/1a. Ex Hommel collection, ex Kölner Münzkabinett.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>According to Fritz Hommel&#039;s ticket, which is niftily fashioned from an old postal envelope, he acquired this coin from a certain Lennox in a swap on Dec. 4, 1911. I have no idea who Lennox was:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391528[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, the coin also came with a second, younger ticket that was apparently made for Hildebrecht Hommel:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391538[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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