Reuniting Old Friends

[Carausius]

I've had remarkable run of luck finding old provenances for some recently-purchased, Roman Republican Imperatorial-era denarii.  Two coins that I've added to my Forum Gallery were consecutive lots (1273 and 1274) in the Michele Baranowski auction of the Traverso and Martini Collections, held on 25 February 1931.  Both coins are now reunited in my trays.  Current photos can be seen in my gallery at: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-157894  and https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-156583 .  Their plate photo in the Baranowski sale is below.

[Jay GT4]

Fantastic coins!  Great provenance too.  Is that the same Baranowski that used to be in Rome?

[Carausius]

No, this Baranowksi (also spelled Baranowsky) was in Milan. 

[Jay GT4]

Hmm, the old guy in Rome was also Baranowsky.  Closed down maybe 10 years ago.  I have his card somewhere, I'll have to dig it up.

[Carausius]

Again I've reunited two coins from an old collection.  Recently, a friend shared with me a scan of plates from Munz Zentrum Auktion XXX (21 November 1977), which included a large collection of Roman Republican struck bronzes.  Scanning the plates, I was thrilled to notice the below Crawford 39/2 Quadrans, which I bought just last January at the New York International Numismatic Convention, and for which I had previously found a slightly later provenance.  Even better, the text of the catalogue said this coin was previously from the important Signorelli Collection which was sold in 1952 by P&P Santamaria.  Looking further through the plates, I found the Anchor (Third) Series As, which I had bought two years ago with a Dr. Walter Neussel Jr. Collection provenance.  

I'm curious, does anyone happen to know the identity of the Munz Zentrum XXX collector?

You can see my gallery postings for these reunited coins, with updated provenances, here:

   https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-153621
   https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-148076

The plate photos from Munz Zentrum XXX are below.  

[PMah]

The quadrans 39/2 is particularly nice.  Despite the flatness of this issue, this specimen has real style.
The attribution to the original collection  must have taken a bit of effort!

[Carausius]

Last night, I reunited two coins from the Reinhold Faelton Collection. 

Reinhold Faelton (1856 - 1949) was a musician, composer, the Dean and founder in 1897 of the Faelton Pianoforte School of Boston, Massachusetts, and a coin collector for over 50 years.  His collection of ancient coins was sold by Stacks in January 1938.  This Stack's catalogue was one of the earliest to feature photographs of actual ancient coins in the plates, rather than photos of plaster casts of the coins (which was the standard at the time).  The resulting plates were mixed quality but mostly poor, making it an arduous task to use this catalogue for provenance matching.

I bought my first Faelton Collection coin about three years ago.  That coin, an AR Denarius of Marc Antony, is in my gallery here: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-145750  Fortunately, Andrew McCabe had previously identified it as Faelton, because I'm not certain I'd have noticed it based on the catalogue photo below. 

About a month ago, I acquired this Roman Republican AE Sextans of the "Collateral" Series of Semilibral Reduction coins:  https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-158676. I had already found the coin in a 1927 Otto Helbing sale.  Last night, while flipping through the Stack's Faelton catalogue hoping to find a different coin, I noticed the below photo and the distinctive mark in the metal above the Wolf and Twins.  So, I have reunited another pair of old collection friends.

[Molinari]

What a great added bonus to finding a provenance!

[Carausius]

I've had remarkable run of luck finding old provenances for some recently-purchased, Roman Republican Imperatorial-era denarii.  Two coins that I've added to my Forum Gallery were consecutive lots (1273 and 1274) in the Michele Baranowski auction of the Traverso and Martini Collections, held on 25 February 1931.  Both coins are now reunited in my trays.

I recently added a rare Cassius aplustre denarius to my Forum Gallery. The coin was once part of the Valerio Traverso Collection, sold by M. Baranowsky in 1931.  This is the third coin in my collection from this sale, all from the Traverso collection and all shown on the same plate in the 1931 auction catalogue!! Each of these coins is in my Forum Gallery.

[Jay GT4]

Fantastic!  Congrats