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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8251216, member: 26430"]Oh yeah, I remember reading that thread and wishing it had gone very differently! Especially given the open secretness of it, it certainly doesn't merit chastising anyone, and I doubt the collector would want that. I usually think of it mainly as a convention for describing the collection, and stick to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>To really research the coins, though, a lot of times I feel like it does make a difference who exactly a collector was. Especially if they've also written on the topic or had important relationships that shaped their own collection (its content and/or interpretation) or the collections of others, and reference publications. It also makes a difference any time you're talking about coins for which there are very few examples and you want to keep track of which is which.</p><p><br /></p><p>E.g., I'm forgetting the details, but Mildenberg's <i>Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War </i>included many coins from collections described as "Private Collection 1," "Collection 2" (I don't remember if there was 3...; Abraham Bromberg was #2). it could be very confusing to keep track of the specimens if you couldn't match up which was which. I often find with Roman Provincial Coins (where rarity is quite common) that I'm left wondering if the multiple private examples cited in older literature are all, in fact, the same coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8251216, member: 26430"]Oh yeah, I remember reading that thread and wishing it had gone very differently! Especially given the open secretness of it, it certainly doesn't merit chastising anyone, and I doubt the collector would want that. I usually think of it mainly as a convention for describing the collection, and stick to it. To really research the coins, though, a lot of times I feel like it does make a difference who exactly a collector was. Especially if they've also written on the topic or had important relationships that shaped their own collection (its content and/or interpretation) or the collections of others, and reference publications. It also makes a difference any time you're talking about coins for which there are very few examples and you want to keep track of which is which. E.g., I'm forgetting the details, but Mildenberg's [I]Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War [/I]included many coins from collections described as "Private Collection 1," "Collection 2" (I don't remember if there was 3...; Abraham Bromberg was #2). it could be very confusing to keep track of the specimens if you couldn't match up which was which. I often find with Roman Provincial Coins (where rarity is quite common) that I'm left wondering if the multiple private examples cited in older literature are all, in fact, the same coin.[/QUOTE]
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