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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3217756, member: 80783&quot;]In any case the work must have been so good that neither it´s first known owner, Claude Camille Rollin (1813-1883), a French dealer in coins, gems and antiquities, who founded the famous French auction house Rollin &amp; Feuradent in 1860 with Felix Feuradent (1819-1907), nor Henry Cohen (1806-1880), who first published the coin and had the chance to personally inspect it during the preparation of the second edition of his „Description historique des monnaies frappees sous l´Empire Romain“, as Rollin and Feuradent were the publishers of both editions of his famous catalogue, noticed it.</p><p>In Volume 5 of the first edition (1861) Cohen does not yet mention this coin yet (he only knows Medallions with the legends IMP C NVMERIANVS PF AVG (Cohen 16) and IMP C M AVR NVMERIANVS AVG (Cohen 18)), so Rollin must have acquired it in the 1860s or 70s.</p><p>The coin was most likely found, like most extant AE Medallions according to Gnecchi, at Rome. Toynbee further points out that &quot;all our evidence, in fact, points to the conclusion that the Catacombs were the provenance of the vast majority of the Medallions that came to light in Rome between 1600 and 1850 and are now scattered throughout the museums and private collections of the world&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously also neither the Medallion´s next owner, Eduard Friedrich Weber (1830-1907), famous Hamburg businessman, consul for the Hawaii islands, art collector and owner of maybe the largest private coin collection of his time (nearly 12.000 pieces) nor his numismatic advisor Dr. Jacob Hirsch, who put together the catalogue for the Consul Weber auction in 1909 (after the City of Hamburg could not afford to buy the collection from Weber´s heirs), noticed the &quot;modern&quot; repair job.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same goes for Francesco Gnecchi (1847-1919), who included it in Vol.2 of his &quot;Medaglioni Romani&quot; in 1912, mentioning the Weber collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the Medallion on Plate XLI of the 1909 Hirsch Catalogue (note the presence of the visible crack):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]837079[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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