I am not at
home to answer fully and am posting this to remind myself to answer more fully later.
The Tony
Hardy Collection was and is being sold by
CNG, although it is coming to an end. Just looking at CNG's site, since sale 67 they've sold over 2300 lots of
Hardy material in printed catalogs and E-Sales. I'll have to check when
CNG first started
selling Hardy material, although based on CNG's website I'd assume they started
selling it in January of 2005 (the first sale
his name shows up is sale 67 and an E-auction 106, both January 2005 sales). I believe there were more than 10,000 coins in the
collection.
Tony
Hardy is a European collector or accumulator if you prefer. There was no real theme to the
collection. I contained everything from Syracusan tetradrachms,
Roman provincials and $3.00 worn late
Roman AE and everything ancient in between.
The Tony
Hardy Collection is coming to an end though. I believe
CNG was under contract to have most of the coins sold by the end of the year. The current E-auction contains mostly Tony
Hardy material and I believe that except for a few odds and ends and unsolds this is the end of the
collection (though I could be mistaken).
I'll try to confirm the above information when I return
home later in the week.
Barry Murphy