The round tag is
BCD's. He bought it from
Pegasi in 1998 and saved the tag, and fortunately the later buyer saved those tags. (About half of my
BCD coins -- between 90 and 100 now -- came without
his round tags, which I find completely infuriating. You can see a bunch photographed in my
BCD Gallery:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=7851 )
(Did someone pencil in "wrong" next to the 1h die-axis on
his tag?! Can't tell from the photo if that's
his handwriting too. Possibly a cataloger at
CNG when they acquired the
BCD Pelo. II /
CNG 81.2 coins & the duplicates.)
Once I figure out what
BCD Pelo 727 is, I'll see if I notice any recent
auction sales. Probably a group lot, so may not be traceable.
I have the Hoover, so I'll check that and send you the page or post it (and both
BCD Pelo catalogs, though as you're aware, the lots are on
ACSearch).
For every main
catalog coins (there were 10 major sales), there were many "
BCD Duplicates" (as I call them).
Peloponnesos there were probably 1000-2000 coins in the two main sales. (Similar for the two main
Thessaly sales; the others were somewhat smaller.)
His Pelo. and Thess.
collections were huge. Tens of thousands of
his coins were sold in group lots at
CNG and elsewhere. (I've heard 50,000 as an estimate, but I think a lot more.) Naville, for example, sold lots of the duplicates from
BCD Lokris-Phokis (NAC 55). He seems to have tried to spread
his coins around to many different
auctions. Naumann sold group lots of "
BCD Incerta" and coins that didn't fit
his other sub-collections (
Akarnania &
Aetolia,
Boiotia,
Corinth,
Euboia, Lokris-Phokis, Olympia,
Peloponnesos,
Thessaly, and an anonymous
collection of
Athens AE in
CNG 50 & 51).
I am unclear if he sold coins directly to dealers (not
auctions), or how many. Some of
his group lots at
CNG had over a 1,000 coins in a lot, so there's no recognizing them from
auction photos. Did he ever sell any directly to Joe? Or Ken Dorney? I suspect he may have sold some directly to Kirk
Davis (he sold a lot in FPLs that I can't match to
auction sales), but I can't tell if those dealers bought all theirs as groups lots (or maybe
CNG & NAC sold some big groups by "private treaty" rather than
auction).
The amazing thing is that, although he
had the highest end coins too, and enormous numbers of lesser coins, he showed virtually the same care and scholarly attention to the ugliest, most commercially worthless coins, meticulously recording
provenance and carefully
writing those little round tags in identical format, and (oftentimes) taking little life-size photos and cutting them out. (I have a number of those; not all coins got them.) Some of my coins with
BCD tags would barely be a "junk box" coin for many dealers.
Incidentally, I've got a Messenia
Hemidrachm /
Triobol from the
BCD Collection (
BCD Pelo. II) in my
gallery:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=174583