Meepzorp, I wasn't on these boards for a long time. It seems that one great loss I suffered from my absence is failing to learn of your site until now! Since yesterday I've strolled through most of the
RPC and plan to keeping going through all the rest.
There's much to say and much already said; I'll just add that I very much appreciate that you've included so many old collector and dealer tags! (I dream of a future database in which images of old tags are indexed so we can figure out who produced our tags and to whom their coins once belonged. It would also include translations of collectors' codes and
abbreviations -- such as
BCD's, some of which have been explained here and on other coin discussion sites, and many examples of which are thankfully transcribed in
Forum's sold coins archives.)
I have photographs/scans of many of my tags, but I'm realizing I need to capture the rest, since I'd like to check and compare some against the ones you've shown, but they're in the safety deposit box now. I really feel like I recognize at least one of the tags for your "
Judaea,
Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem),
Elagabalus, AE 29, 15.35g" -- not the Spartan one, but the old collector labels (page
LINK). Perhaps one of them is a Lord Grantley? (I'll double-check when I can, it may match a label for my Pyrrhos bronze from the Grantley Coll.)
Interesting to notice trends in tag styles over the
history of collecting. At different times (probably in different countries as well), I think many collectors even tended to use similar sets of colors in ink (e.g., black &
red on white seems to have been a common one from mid-20th century and earlier; I think
red & blue, sometimes with black, became popular in the late 20th and continues). And it always gives a
bit of nostalgia to see tags from old dealers no longer around, such as the Colosseum Coin Exchange tags, one of the coolest dealer logos in my opinion. (One of my first, and thus among my favorite, coins was a little
Aegina Turtle Drachm -- image
LINK HERE, will update w/
Forum Gallery link ASAP -- that I bought from a CCE mail bid sale ca. 1990-2, possibly CCE 53 (22 Jan 1991), though I've lost the catalogs and labels/receipts years ago).