A couple things,
hope all this is okay here (and that I didn't already post this somewhere here?):
I've created a page on my
collection site to
help others research important pre-2000
auction catalogs that feature coins of
Roman Egypt (Alexandrian), and that are available online (about 40 catalogs and other private
collections, most with 100-500 Alexandrian coins illustrated; I chose pre-2000 because many of the most important
auctions are not indexed in
ACSearch or
Coinarchives, etc.):
"20th Cent. Sales of Alexandrian Coins Online" = https://conservatoricoins.com/alexandrian/To be clear, the page is specifically about
auction catalogs, not books or articles. I use it for
provenance research or to find examples from well-known
collections. But there are other uses for
auction catalogs.
(I was inspired to it by seeing
Warren Esty's and Steve Moulding's pages on
auction catalogs; their sites linked below.)
All links below are on one page; they're just to different sections so readers can jump ahead to whatever's important to them.
Skipping down to the "
Online Auctions, Annotated List"
[LINK], I've included a list of about 35 or 40 of the most "important" 20th century
auction catalogs of
Roman Egypt, Alexandrian coins that are available online. Most include at least 100 lots of Alexandrian, some fewer, others up to 500+ illustrated. For each
catalog I've included basic info. about the
auction & the consignor/collection (when avail.), and summarized the number of lots &/or plates of Alexandrian coins. Occasionally with additional details.
These are excerpted from a much larger annotated list of old
auction catalogs online, so I may have occasionally left in additional notes about the
auction when cutting/pasting.
I'm
still working on all this, including editing. But I figured it's not going to be perfect, so best to go ahead and share it now before the next new technology
comes along and renders it
obsolete!
If you don't care about all of my annotations (or the dates of the
auctions, etc.), I've also included a "
Quick, Ultra-Abbreviated List"
[LINK] of ~37 links (I think -- I'm
still adding, so maybe more).
I've also listed most of the
hard copy Alexandrian catalogs in my library, incl. those that are NOT online; let me know if you ever need to check a reference, that's why I have them. (Or if you have one I don't that you want to sell/trade!)
There are bibliographical materials about sale literature for Alexandrian coins,
including external links to others' bibliographies or annotated lists.
One purpose is to make
provenance research easier, so I've also included
notes on & links to other private Alexandrian collections that have been dispersed (but not available in PDF
auction catalogs), such as
Col. J.
Curtis, G.
Dattari, Keith
Emmett (cat. by Zack "Beast" Beasley).
Steve M. may have many/most or these catalogs linked as well:
https://www.rnumis.com/frontpage.phpWarren Esty has a set of annotations for many of these same sales:
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs AND
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/SevAlex/Another:Last year I already posted separately here in "Books and References" to ask (
Any info about Figari-Mosconi (2017) on the Dattari Collection?), but I'll keep the request alive here...
Giuseppe Figari and Massimo Mosconi's (2017)
Duemilla Monete della Collezione Dattari , Genoa: Circ. Numis. Astengo).
If anyone ever has a lead on a copy (or many copies!), I'm all in. (I've tried the numismatic club/"circolo" that published it a couple times, but will eventually try again.)
Finally:A glamour shot showing some of my reference volumes (the
auction catalogs weren't photogenic enough!) on coins of
Roman Egypt/Alexandria (and a pair of Hadrians for
scale):
