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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 3606669, member: 99239&quot;]Well, that&#039;s arguable for sure but one good candidate might be the 1887 sale held by coin firm Rollin &amp; Feuardent of the collection of one Ponton d&#039;Amercourt. Obviously filthy rich in that 19th sort of way that brings to mind the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, d&#039;Amercourt put together one of the greatest ancient coin collections ever. In this sale he let go his finest Roman gold coins; a thousand lots of EF/FDC aurei!</p><p><br /></p><p>That must have been a sight to behold eh?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m about halfway through uploading this treasure to my test server and you&#039;re welcome to take a sneak peek as I add them from a scan of a copy of one of the catalogues (the one at the ANS library). The quality isn&#039;t the greatest, and neither&#039;s the OCR of the text, but is generally acceptable and gives one a good idea of what these coins looked like.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coinvac.crabdance.com/index.php/coins/all/search2/yes/date_to/1887-04-18/date_from/1887-04-18/use_checkboxes/0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinvac.crabdance.com/index.php/coins/all/search2/yes/date_to/1887-04-18/date_from/1887-04-18/use_checkboxes/0" rel="nofollow">http://coinvac.crabdance.com/index.php/coins/all/search2/yes/date_to/1887-04-18/date_from/1887-04-18/use_checkboxes/0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My eventual aim is to include every major auction from the 19th and 20th century - at least the lots that made it to the plates. If you&#039;d like to help please let me know!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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