It's been several months, and parts of your question have but answered, but if my notes (pasted below) add more to the story ... hopefully you'll see the answer, and others researching the topic.
I have three of the Huntington-ANS (
American Numismatic Society)-HSA (Hispanic Society of America) coins. I'm very interested in "object biography" (
AKA provenance/collection
history), so I've tried to read and take notes on everything publicly available about the
collection. (I'm sure there are some people at HSA,
ANS,
CNG, Sotheby's, and Jesus Vico who know more, but I haven't tried contacting them yet.)
Like yours, all of mine have "1001" accession numbers. I believe the prefix "1001" applies to all of Huntington coins that were de-accessioned. (Technically, it's actually "1001.1." but I don't know whether "1001.2." and so on were ever assigned). The number after 1001.1., as you know, was the HSA accession number, which was also used by the
ANS. Most of those remaining in the
ANS Collection have numbers beginning "2012.49."
I do not think there is any indication of the original year the coins were loaned to HSA. I think your "25440" tag means that it's the 25,440th coin accessioned/loaned into HSA from the Huntington
collection (of about 37,895 total coins). To be honest I haven't tried to confirm the details (e.g., if the numbers were assigned at the initial loan or accession of the bequest), but I believe it's a count. I've also seen 3 and 4 digits HSA numbers ("686" the lowest), but never one over 37895 (mine are "10488," "22362," and "22981").
All of the Huntington coins seem to have
had "1001.1" prefixes at the Sotheby's 2012 sale, whether or not they returned to the
ANS. I'm not sure when, exactly, that prefix attached -- if it is a deaccession number, if that was the full number at HSA. (I suspect the former, since the coins don't seem to have been described that way before being sold.) The ones labeled as ex-ANS and sold by
CNG (and by Jencek) were
part of the group of about 19,000 coins returned to the
ANS in 2012, and then sold again. (They
had previously been at the
ANS for decades, and the HSA before that, and all original numbers preserved; see below.)
HUNTINGTON COLLECTION TIMELINEpre-1946: The coins were held in the basement at HSA;
1946-1947: The entire coin
collection was moved to the
ANS (possibly completed as late as 1949, but not later);
1955:
Collection formally bequeathed to the HSA upon death of A.H.M., remaining on "permanent loan" to
ANS;
c. 1946/1947-2012: Coins housed at the
American Numismatic Society (under HSA's accession numbers);
1980: * Something important happened to the status of the loan, I need to double-check and update, but the ANS commented on it re: their legal status and their own investment;
2008 (23 Jan): HSA Board of Trustees adopts resolution to sell the
collection;
2008-2012:
ANS initiates legal battle & public campaign to prevent the sale, eventually losing the judgment in court;
2012 (8 March): Sotheby's sells the entire
collection (37,895 coins) to a consortium of buyers (presumed to include
Spanish firm Jesus Vico) in a closed-bid sale;
2012-2013: Huntington
Collection coins appear on the market from NAC, Vico,
Morton & Eden, NGSA, Palombo, Heritage, possibly others, making first public appearances since the Sotheby's sale;
2012 (May-June): Approximately 19,000 coins from the Sotheby's sale returned to the
ANS in anonymous donation (including 3,000 Roman AR and AE);
2013 (summer): 7,493 more coins returned to
ANS on "permanent loan";
2013-2017 (?): Of 19,000 coins returned, several thousand (?) were deaccessioned (re-deaccessioned!) & sold (mostly via
CNG, but several hundred may have first appeared at Jencek, incl. one of mine);
2014-?: Additional Archer M. Huntington re-acquired by purchase & given accession numbers starting "2014," "2015"....
Things I don't know and/or haven't yet found published: (1) During what period was Huntington's
collection originally formed?
(2) When was it originally deposited at HSA?
(3) Between c. 1947 and 2012, did the Huntington coins have a different prefix?
(4) Does the
ANS assign "1001" to all deaccessioned coins?
(5) Where is the Huntington
EID MAR Denarius?
Unfortunately, being a topic of major controversy, the HSA no longer makes any mention of
his numismatic activities. (It sounds like
his coin
collection was probably formed c. 1898-1910s [outbreak of WWI], but I can't say with any confidence.)
ONLINE REFERENCES:A.M. Hunting Bios:-
ANS / Archives – Authorities, Archer M Huntington [
LINK];
- HSA / Hispanic Society of America (no mention of coins!) [
LINK];
- Hadrien
Rambach, Introductory Essay, NAC
Auction 67 (17 Oct 2012),
The Archer M. Huntington Collection of Roman Gold Coins, Part I [LINK];
- See also: Coinsweekly (n.d.), "Huntington, Archer Milton (1870-1955)," excerpted from
Rambach's essays in NAC 67 (Huntington, I), NAC 91 (LaBorde, I)
[LINK];
- Hadrien
Rambach, “
Provenance Glossary" (
Part I) [
LINK];
- See also:
CNG,
Triton XVII (6 Jan 2014), page 159: “
Roman Coins from the Archer M. Huntington
Collection" [
LINK]
- Zhengcheng Li (2016) "Huntington Coin
Collection and Donation Protection," Sotheby's Institute of Art [
LINK];
-
-
Wikipedia [
LINK];
ANS Magazine (there are more, I'll add links if I can find them):American Numismatic Society Magazine,
Winter 2008: "...Fate of the Archer Huntington
Collection..." [
LINK -- unfortunately not the best digitization];
ANS Magazine, Summer 2013, Elena Stolyarik, “From the
Collections Manager New Acquisitions" [
LINK or
PDF Issue];
ANS Magazine, Fall 2014: E. Stolyarik, New Acquisitions [
PDF Issue];
Art & Coin News:ArtsJournal.com, 13 June 2012: "1,004 Ex-Hispanic Society Coins to Be Re-Auctioned in
Spain;
American Numismatic Society Retrieves 10,000 Pieces" [
LINK];
El Pais, 20 June 2012: "El disperso destino de las monedas españolas de la colección Huntington" [
LINK];
Coin Week, 27 Feb 2012: "Huntington
Collection of Hispanic Related Coins Offered by Sotheby’s as a Single Lot March 8th" [
LINK];
Coin World, 25 June 2012: "First
auction set for Huntington
Collection of Hispanic..."[
LINK];
More News:Coins Weekly, 2012: “Huntington
Collection for Sale” [
LINK];
Coins Weekly, Feb 2013: “Over 7,000 Coins from Huntington
Collection Return to
ANS as Long Term Loan” [
LINK];
Coin World, Feb 2013: “Huntington
Collection takes long way back” [
LINK];
COINSApparently I haven't uploaded any to
my Member's Gallery yet [
LINK], but this is my favorite:
(Coin-in-Hand Video [
LINK])
Roman Imperial Coinage.
Vespasian (Emperor, 69-79 CE) AR
Denarius (17mm, 3.50 g, 6h).
Rome mint, struck July-December 71.
Obv:
IMP CAES VESP AVG P M. Laureate
head right.
Rev:
TRI POT.
Vesta seated left, draped, holding
simpulum.
Ref:
RIC II.1 46;
RSC /
Cohen 561.
Prov: Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955)
Collection; loaned, then bequeathed to Hispanic Society of America (HSA 1001.1.22362); housed at the
American Numismatic Society (same accession number), late 1940s - c. 2012; 8 March 2012, sold at Sotheby's sealed-bid sale of all 37,895 Huntington coins; acq. by consortium, incl. Jose Vico; returned to
ANS among 26,500 other Huntington coins, May 2012 - summer 2013; consigned by
ANS to
CNG e-Auction 397, 17 May 2017; Lampasas
Collection; consigned to
CNG e-Auction 487, 10 March 2021; Charles Chamberlain
Collection; consigned to
CNG e-Auction 509, 9 February 2022; Jackson-Jacobs
Collection, present.