Has anyone ever seen a copy for sale of Giuseppe Figari and Massimo Mosconi's (2017)
Duemilla Monete della Collezione Dattari ("2000 Coins of the
Dattari Collection")? From what I gather, it is mainly a supplement to Savio-Dattari (1999/2007), which illustrated Giovanni
Dattari's (1858-1923) "fabled
collection" of 13,200 Alexandrian coins with
his pencil rubbings. Figari-Mosconi (F-M) simply provides
auction photographs and provenances (mostly 1960s-1970s, from secondary reports I've found in
RPC).
I've seen a few threads about the volume in
Italian (on lamoneta.it):
https://www.lamoneta.it/topic/159189-la-collez-dattari/https://www.lamoneta.it/topic/176990-7-aprile-2019-giovanni-dattari-e-la-sua-collezione-di-monete-alessandrine-genova/There weren't many copies printed (maybe a couple hundred, comparable to
Dattari-Savio) and the
price was modest (~40Euros?). I've been hoping used copies might appear since many of those who discussed it on lamoneta were disappointed that it provided only photos and
auction records. But to me that's perfect. (After all, I bought
Savio's volume of 13,200 faded
pencil rubbings of
Dattari coins for much more! And love it.)
I don't think I've ever found a record of a copy being sold and worldcat doesn't list it in any American libraries (HJB's
library is included in the
index, I believe, as
part of U Chi
Lib; no entry in
Numiswiki, so I'm guessing
Forum may not have a copy either). It was published in Genoa by an
Italian numismatic club / historical society (Circolo Numismatico Astengo). I think I read that Figari died before it was released (not sure about Mosconi). I tried sending a couple emails to
Italy (though I don't speak
Italian) with no luck, but eventually I may try again, or try to create an account and ask on lamoneta.
But I thought I'd check here first and see if anyone
had heard of copies circulating in the US... Or, since it's kind of the definition of esoteric (but wonderful for someone with very precise interests), has anyone else heard of the volume at all?
I'm hopeful I'll ID some lost
Dattari coins, but also just be able to see
his coins in photo rather than pencil. I've only got two known examples that didn't come from Naville's large
consignment, both of which happened to pass through HJB. One was a Grover - Chicago Art Institute coin in a Gemini XIII group lot, but the other is a mystery that came from
CNG recently with an old
Berk tag; it is a fun
rarity that I'd have thought would've attracted more notice (
RPC VI 10362, Temp,
LINK =
Emmett 3101 (7) =
Dattari-Savio 12335), the only
Severus Alexander Elpis coin before Year 10 (though there is a matching
Mamaea Elpis Tetradrachm for Year 7, also ex-Dattari, with a pencil rubbing in
RPC:
LINK). Included here in my
Forum gallery:
LINK. I may post about the coin separately in the
RPC board:
