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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4849040, member: 89514"]I think Paris should still have their holed aureus of Nigrinian, since Cohen gives as source just "France", that is the French collection, not "Formerly France", as he regularly wrote for coins lost in the 1831 theft. I see NAC claims that Paris lost its specimen in 1831, but since they name no source for that information, I would prefer to believe Cohen, who was actually employed at the French cabinet.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Eckhel, whose text you reproduce above, there was also a specimen of this aureus in the Gotha collection, though I don't know whether that coin is still in the collection today, or was perhaps looted and lost in WWII, which was certainly the fate of many Roman gold coins in that collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4849040, member: 89514"]I think Paris should still have their holed aureus of Nigrinian, since Cohen gives as source just "France", that is the French collection, not "Formerly France", as he regularly wrote for coins lost in the 1831 theft. I see NAC claims that Paris lost its specimen in 1831, but since they name no source for that information, I would prefer to believe Cohen, who was actually employed at the French cabinet. According to Eckhel, whose text you reproduce above, there was also a specimen of this aureus in the Gotha collection, though I don't know whether that coin is still in the collection today, or was perhaps looted and lost in WWII, which was certainly the fate of many Roman gold coins in that collection.[/QUOTE]
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