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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24650845, member: 26430"]I won two coins from the ETB Collection. Both Alexandria bronzes. There were many others I <i>really</i> wish I could've kept bidding on, and were worth more than their hammer prices.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>TWO that I WON ... followed by FIVE that I LOST.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>One was an AE Obol from the Athribite Nome with Chuit-Hathor holding eagle (patron deity of Athribis town and the district; ex AK Collection, Kellner plate coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>(From the Hellenistic period onward, the Egyptian deities <i>usually</i> appeared without animal heads, and these Nome deities were described by Milne in 1932 as "stock images" only varying in their attributes/companion animals.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The other is the AE Drachm I showed in another post, with a captives reverse (ex Dattari 1775).</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">Kellner, p. 106, pl. 5, 19 = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6466" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6466" rel="nofollow">RPC III online 6466</a>.44 (<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/55772" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/55772" rel="nofollow">this coin [55772]</a>)</font></p></blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1569697[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">Emmett 1007 (5) = Dattari (Savio) 1775 = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5294" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5294" rel="nofollow">RPC III online 5294</a>.2 (<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/58559" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/58559" rel="nofollow">this coin 58559</a>) </font></p></blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1569696[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As someone who "collects collections," I was very impressed by the Provincials (especially Alexandrian). (I think of a collection as a piece of literature -- at least the good ones. To own a collection coin, and place it in a new context, is a way of appreciating and building upon that contribution to the literature.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Practically every possible specimen had been submitted to & cited in RPC. Lest one suspect that of being a last-minute marketing strategy, the final two print editions of <i>RPC Supplement</i> (2017, 2019) began with acknowledgements thanking ETB for his contributions.</p><p><br /></p><p>From <i>RPC Supplement IV</i>, “Preface” (p. vii):</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>“To avoid making this printed Supplement too big, multiple new specimens of known types have not always been included here.</p><p><br /></p><p>"This applies particularly to the ever-growing collections of CGT, ETB and A. Tricarico, but we owe their owners a special debt of gratitude from the way they are constantly checking, and often acquiring, newly appearing coins, especially on eBay, and regularly sending in information about them: every morning we all await the welcome arrival of several emails from each of them!”</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="4">(See also <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/files/bibliography/302_87H5Z8XG3WJ62ZJ7UW8CJ1S2YRK8G576_1.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/files/bibliography/302_87H5Z8XG3WJ62ZJ7UW8CJ1S2YRK8G576_1.pdf" rel="nofollow">RPC Supplement 5</a>, Preface, p. vii. I don’t know who CGT is, but I see their coins frequently; should the initials’ owner feel like sending a message, I’d be interested in making their acquaintance!)</font></i></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>ETB was fortunate to have been collecting Alexandrian when Naville started to disperse its parcel of thousands of coins from the Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) Collection, c. 2017. At least <a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?search=Brink+%22G.+Dattari%22&p=sale&sid=6942&s=b" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?search=Brink+%22G.+Dattari%22&p=sale&sid=6942&s=b" rel="nofollow">96 ex-Dattari Coins of Hadrian were in the ETB collection</a>! (That's 5.5% of the c. 1,750-1,800 Hadrians in Dattari-Savio 2007, incl. the Nomes & Supplement!)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>More Favorites (I did NOT win these)</b>:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2830" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2830" rel="nofollow">Lot 2830</a>:</b> The absolute highlight was the unique Ares Tetradrachm, from the Staffieri Collection. Leu didn’t mention it, but several of the coins were illustrated by Dattari in 1901, including D 1271. To be illustrated in 1901 (unlike the 1999/2007 Dattari-Savio rubbings which covered the whole collection), Dattari had to consider the coin very special. Either unique or the best of its imagery.</p><p><br /></p><p>Leu also didn’t note that it was published in Figari-Mosconi (220).</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i><b>NOT MINE! </b></i></p></blockquote><p><img src="https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02830.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2774" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2774" rel="nofollow"><b>Lot 2774</b></a>: Also in Dattari 1901 was the unique bust of Hermes Tetradrachm (D 1388). (There was one similar specimen, but different enough that Leu is justified in calling it unique.)</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><b><i>NOT MINE!</i></b></p></blockquote><p><img src="https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02774.jpg?1687134254" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There were many other wonderful ones like that. I won’t mention them all, but I noticed several others that Leu failed to mention were in the Dattari 1901 plates or Figari-Mosconi, in the print edition RPC Supplements, many cited in Emmett (2001), and some cited in David Sear’s <i>Roman Coins and Their Values</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two more highlights from the 1901 Dattari Plates:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2866" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2866" rel="nofollow">Lot 2886</a> = Dattari 1685, exceptional Dioscuri:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><b>NOT MINE!</b></p></blockquote><p><img src="https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02866.jpg?1687134254" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2820" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2820" rel="nofollow">Lot 2820</a> = Dattari 1329, facing Canopi jars (Isis or Osiris Canopus alone not a big deal, together is special!)</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><b>NOT MINE!</b></p></blockquote><p><img src="https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02820.jpg?1687134254" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2517" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2517" rel="nofollow">Lot 2517</a>: Lastly, I really should have kept going for this one. (But I would've had to drop the Athribite Obol above.) Someone got a steal for 120 CHF. A nice Thessalian League AE <i>temp.</i> Hadrian with Achilles on the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><b>NOT MINE!</b></p></blockquote><p><img src="https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02517.jpg?1687134254" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The obverse & rev. are illustrated in Burrer (1993). This coin was also from the fantastic -- but, sadly, largely unknown -- <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=%22BCD+Collection%22&category=1-2&company=30&auction=3148" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=%22BCD+Collection%22&category=1-2&company=30&auction=3148" rel="nofollow">CNG E-Auction 299 (27 Mar 2013), "<i>Coinage of the Thessalian League from the BCD Collection" </i>(Lots 1-80)</a>, (I have an annotated biblio of <a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/bcd-thessaly-league/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/bcd-thessaly-league/" rel="nofollow">the second part, CNG EA 325, Lots 1-95, on my website</a>, but haven't yet posted my annotations for 299. Together I think of them as the "<i>BCD Thessaly Supplement: Koinon."</i>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24650845, member: 26430"]I won two coins from the ETB Collection. Both Alexandria bronzes. There were many others I [I]really[/I] wish I could've kept bidding on, and were worth more than their hammer prices. [B]TWO that I WON ... followed by FIVE that I LOST.[/B] One was an AE Obol from the Athribite Nome with Chuit-Hathor holding eagle (patron deity of Athribis town and the district; ex AK Collection, Kellner plate coin). (From the Hellenistic period onward, the Egyptian deities [I]usually[/I] appeared without animal heads, and these Nome deities were described by Milne in 1932 as "stock images" only varying in their attributes/companion animals.) The other is the AE Drachm I showed in another post, with a captives reverse (ex Dattari 1775). [INDENT][SIZE=4]Kellner, p. 106, pl. 5, 19 = [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6466']RPC III online 6466[/URL].44 ([URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/55772']this coin [55772][/URL])[/SIZE][/INDENT] [ATTACH=full]1569697[/ATTACH] [INDENT][SIZE=4]Emmett 1007 (5) = Dattari (Savio) 1775 = [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5294']RPC III online 5294[/URL].2 ([URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/58559']this coin 58559[/URL]) [/SIZE][/INDENT] [ATTACH=full]1569696[/ATTACH] As someone who "collects collections," I was very impressed by the Provincials (especially Alexandrian). (I think of a collection as a piece of literature -- at least the good ones. To own a collection coin, and place it in a new context, is a way of appreciating and building upon that contribution to the literature.) Practically every possible specimen had been submitted to & cited in RPC. Lest one suspect that of being a last-minute marketing strategy, the final two print editions of [I]RPC Supplement[/I] (2017, 2019) began with acknowledgements thanking ETB for his contributions. From [I]RPC Supplement IV[/I], “Preface” (p. vii): [INDENT]“To avoid making this printed Supplement too big, multiple new specimens of known types have not always been included here. "This applies particularly to the ever-growing collections of CGT, ETB and A. Tricarico, but we owe their owners a special debt of gratitude from the way they are constantly checking, and often acquiring, newly appearing coins, especially on eBay, and regularly sending in information about them: every morning we all await the welcome arrival of several emails from each of them!” [I][SIZE=4](See also [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/files/bibliography/302_87H5Z8XG3WJ62ZJ7UW8CJ1S2YRK8G576_1.pdf']RPC Supplement 5[/URL], Preface, p. vii. I don’t know who CGT is, but I see their coins frequently; should the initials’ owner feel like sending a message, I’d be interested in making their acquaintance!)[/SIZE][/I][/INDENT] ETB was fortunate to have been collecting Alexandrian when Naville started to disperse its parcel of thousands of coins from the Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) Collection, c. 2017. At least [URL='https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?search=Brink+%22G.+Dattari%22&p=sale&sid=6942&s=b']96 ex-Dattari Coins of Hadrian were in the ETB collection[/URL]! (That's 5.5% of the c. 1,750-1,800 Hadrians in Dattari-Savio 2007, incl. the Nomes & Supplement!) [B]More Favorites (I did NOT win these)[/B]: [B][URL='https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2830']Lot 2830[/URL]:[/B] The absolute highlight was the unique Ares Tetradrachm, from the Staffieri Collection. Leu didn’t mention it, but several of the coins were illustrated by Dattari in 1901, including D 1271. To be illustrated in 1901 (unlike the 1999/2007 Dattari-Savio rubbings which covered the whole collection), Dattari had to consider the coin very special. Either unique or the best of its imagery. Leu also didn’t note that it was published in Figari-Mosconi (220). [INDENT][I][B]NOT MINE! [/B][/I][/INDENT] [IMG]https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02830.jpg[/IMG] [URL='https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2774'][B]Lot 2774[/B][/URL]: Also in Dattari 1901 was the unique bust of Hermes Tetradrachm (D 1388). (There was one similar specimen, but different enough that Leu is justified in calling it unique.) [INDENT][B][I]NOT MINE![/I][/B][/INDENT] [IMG]https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02774.jpg?1687134254[/IMG] There were many other wonderful ones like that. I won’t mention them all, but I noticed several others that Leu failed to mention were in the Dattari 1901 plates or Figari-Mosconi, in the print edition RPC Supplements, many cited in Emmett (2001), and some cited in David Sear’s [I]Roman Coins and Their Values[/I]. Two more highlights from the 1901 Dattari Plates: [URL='https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2866']Lot 2886[/URL] = Dattari 1685, exceptional Dioscuri: [INDENT][B]NOT MINE![/B][/INDENT] [IMG]https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02866.jpg?1687134254[/IMG] [URL='https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2820']Lot 2820[/URL] = Dattari 1329, facing Canopi jars (Isis or Osiris Canopus alone not a big deal, together is special!) [INDENT][B]NOT MINE![/B][/INDENT] [IMG]https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02820.jpg?1687134254[/IMG] [URL='https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=6942&lot=2517']Lot 2517[/URL]: Lastly, I really should have kept going for this one. (But I would've had to drop the Athribite Obol above.) Someone got a steal for 120 CHF. A nice Thessalian League AE [I]temp.[/I] Hadrian with Achilles on the obverse. [INDENT][B]NOT MINE![/B][/INDENT] [IMG]https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/leu_winterthur/e26/image02517.jpg?1687134254[/IMG] The obverse & rev. are illustrated in Burrer (1993). This coin was also from the fantastic -- but, sadly, largely unknown -- [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=%22BCD+Collection%22&category=1-2&company=30&auction=3148']CNG E-Auction 299 (27 Mar 2013), "[I]Coinage of the Thessalian League from the BCD Collection" [/I](Lots 1-80)[/URL], (I have an annotated biblio of [URL='https://conservatoricoins.com/bcd-thessaly-league/']the second part, CNG EA 325, Lots 1-95, on my website[/URL], but haven't yet posted my annotations for 299. Together I think of them as the "[I]BCD Thessaly Supplement: Koinon."[/I])[/QUOTE]
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