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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Helvetica, post: 25737519, member: 75944&quot;]I only just noticed this thread and sorry that the thread is almost exactly 4 years old !</p><p>Firstly, the N.g. in Mionnet&#039;s listing refers to Vaillant&#039;s work &quot;Numismata Graeca&quot;.</p><p>Also, after RecGen was published in 1910, Babelon (who was working at the Paris Cabinet) made a lot of additions and corrections to the book in the Paris collection, adding this coin&#039;s obverse legend AY K L CEP CEYHROC to the entry 333, adding AE20 GD. &quot;GD&quot; means Grand Duc Michaelovich who had a huge coin collection. That Paris volume of RecGen can be downloaded from Gallica. You just need to find the right one.</p><p>Now back to Vaillant. His &quot;Numismata Graeca&quot; (which was written in 1700) can be downloaded from the University of Heidelberg&#039;s Digital library:</p><p>&nbsp;<a href="http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/vaillant1700/0007" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/vaillant1700/0007" rel="nofollow">http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/vaillant1700/0007</a></p><p>(click the download&nbsp; symbol at top right of that page).</p><p>The coins are arranged by emperor and then more or less in alphabetical order of mint. This coin cited by Mionnet is on Valliant&#039;s p. 85, and gives, as its source &quot;Reg. Suecia&quot;, so the king or queen of Sweden. </p><p>Now, the only Swedish regent who had a notable coin collection was Queen Christina, who died in 1689. It is entirely plausible that Vaillant&#039;s entry refers to her collection. Queen Christina became a Catholic in her later years and decided to give almost her entire collection to the Vatican who salted them away in their bottomless coffers. Along comes good old Napoleon who invaded the Vatican, siezed the collection and took it back to France with him. Unfortunately many of the gold and silver coins were stolen and likely melted down during a great robbery of the old Paris cabinet back in the 1700s (I have a report of the theft somewhere amongst the 72,000 pdfs on my NAS)...&nbsp; Rather like Stalin&#039;s thieving mobs who looted the Hermitage coin collection and sent the coins to a seller in Germany who then sold them in two auctions - knowing damn well that they had been looted but describing them as &quot;Dubletten aus Museumsbesitz&quot; (duplicates from a museum&#039;s property). The empty coin holders in the Hermitage are still in place.</p><p>So maybe this information will help.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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