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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24667419, member: 26430&quot;]That is a superb coin, [USER=87809]@cmezner[/USER] ! I have been studying the Clay Collection offerings since it went live. There are several coins that I hope will make it to bidding, but the one I wanted most was already bought outright (<a href="https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/hjb/224/image00098.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/hjb/224/image00098.jpg" rel="nofollow">Vespasian/Titus Judaea Capta Denarius Mule = RIC 368</a>, which would&#039;ve perfectly fit my two favorite subcollections, &quot;plate coins&quot; &amp; &quot;barbarians &amp; captives&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>While I don&#039;t have any coins from the Curtis Clay Collection, I do have many <i>cataloged by</i> him (like anyone who buys Roman coins from HJBerk)! I like Alexandrian coins, so my personal favorite catalog he wrote was the <i>Gemini XIII</i> (the Art Institute of Chicago / Robert L. Grover De-Accession Sale, many coins from which were ex-Dattari). <a href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/gemini_xiii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/gemini_xiii" rel="nofollow">Gemini XIII</a> on Issuu; <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=&amp;category=1-2&amp;company=42&amp;auction=3683" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=&amp;category=1-2&amp;company=42&amp;auction=3683" rel="nofollow">Lots on ACSearch</a> (#378-490 for AIC/Grover). These are mine, originally from Gemini XIII group lots:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1572909[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And an article offprint -- &quot;Nilus and the Four Seasons on a New As of Septimius Severus&quot; from the <i>Numismatic Chronicle</i>, 1970 (<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42681901" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42681901" rel="nofollow">available on JSTOR</a>) -- signed by Curtis Clay &amp; inscribed to Luke Scholing of J. Schulman, Amsterdam (after which it somehow made it into the Library of Lanz Numismatik, from which I bought it). A prior draft won the 1969 Barclay Head Prize for Numismatics at Oxford:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1572908[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, here is my Nero Claudius Drusus Sestertius -- far inferior to the OP coin!!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1572910[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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