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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24779086, member: 26430&quot;]Quite the provenance, indeed! I love seeing collection histories like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some W. Niggeler coins were privately sold, but this one was indeed in the catalogs: Bank Leu - Münzen und Medaillen, Niggeler Part III, Lot 1310 (right after the Sestertius version), with no hint of prior provenance given (and it&#039;s been conserved very nicely by whoever bought it!):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/sammlungwalterni00mnze/page/n78/mode/1up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/sammlungwalterni00mnze/page/n78/mode/1up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/sammlungwalterni00mnze/page/n78/mode/1up</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder where it was between 1967 and the 2009 accession? Perhaps unsold or otherwise held onto until Leu closed for good? (The Ruth Elzabeth White Fund seems to be something else, like a fund for object photography?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Yale Art Gallery also has &gt;4000 coins from the P. R. Franke Collection, w year 2004 accession numbers -- i.e., his &amp; his wife Leonore&#039;s <i>first</i> collection. He promptly formed another, comparably large, but of more &quot;scholarly&quot; character (i.e., less beautiful &amp; valuable), auctioned in two waves by Grün &amp; Solidus, from which I have a few.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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