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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3814162, member: 90666&quot;]series: L.CASSI Q.F., P.SATRIENVS, L.RVSTI, L.LVCRETI TRIO, C.EGNATIVS CN.F, L.FARSVLEI MENSOR, CN.LEN.Q. EX S.C., L.PLAETORI L.F. Q. SC, P.LENT.P.F.L.N.Q, Q.POMPONI, Q.CREPEREI ROCVS, MN.AQVIL, KALENI CORDI, T.VETTIVS, M.PLAETORIVS CEST </p><p>With this tray we move into perhaps the most popular era of Roman Republican coin collecting, the pre-Imperatorial coinage of the 70s, 60s and 50s BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>some notable coins:</p><p>- RRC 486/1 Cassia is ex Archer M. Huntington Collection. Huntington ceased collecting by 1913 with few coins bought after c.1905 so anything with his provenance is unlikely to score any other 20th century auction provenance. Huntington&#039;s coins were bequeathed to the Hispanic Society of America who in 1955 lodged them with the American Numismatic Society; the H.S.A. sold the coins in 2014. Supposedly (?) Huntington gave the coins to the H.S.A. assuming they would provide a more reliable home than the A.N.S.; this went badly wrong. </p><p>- RRC 390/2 Lucretia is ex Roberto Russo collection of Roman Republican silver coins sold by Numismatic Fine Arts in NFA27, Dec.1991. This coin was bought by unmarried loner Herbert J. Sukenik who lived in the Mayflower hotel in NYC and sat out developers for years before accepting a $17 million offer to move home. </p><p>- RRC 391/2 Egnatia is ex NAC1 in 1989, a rare catalogue and a rare provenance</p><p>- RRC 396/1b Plaetorius with athlete and strigil symbol is a rare type very rarely found so well struck as the symbols are at the edge of the die; it is ex Leo Benz coll.</p><p>- RRC 398/1 Pomponius Rufus with eagle is a very rare type. This coin is cited by Debernardi &quot;The denarii of Q.POMPONI RVFVS&quot; JNG61,2011 n.24. Lovely prawn symbol.</p><p>- RRC 399 Crepereia is another rarity ex Alfred Page, Parisian Amateur coll. (19 Jun.1933) lot 567 = Banti CREPEREIA 1/3 (this coin). Charming crab symbol this time!</p><p>- RRC 404 Vettius with King Tatius is ex Pierre Egbers coll.; Egbers collected in the 1930s to 1950s and his collection was sold in 2014 when in great old age</p><p>- RRC 405 Plaetorius with anguipede giant in pediment is ex L.S.Ruder coll. 1901-1965; the principal source of the Ruder collection was the estate of Dr. Philip Holmes of Chicago who amassed most of his coins in the 1920s. Another coin where the chances of finding an intermediate provenance is thus vanishingly low due to the age of the provenances I already know of</p><p>- RRC 405/2 Plaetorius &quot;SORS&quot; denarius is ex Stack&#039;s Virginia coll. (6 Sep.1973) lot 623 ex Cahn-Hess 17th Jul.1933 lot 2190 Haeberlin coll. I have several Haeberlins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1016523[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1016524[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Details of the coin types and their provenances are listed below the Flickr image here:</p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48981029303/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48981029303/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48981029303/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Crawford arrangement of my coins, here:</p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/collections/72157651148771015/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/collections/72157651148771015/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/collections/72157651148771015/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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