Provenance & Plate Coins I: Western Greek World

(Photo credit: Vico.) Collection History:
Colección Cores [Gonzalo Cores Uria (1930-2020), Spain; Vico Subasta 156 (Madrid, 5 Mar 2020), 35].
Published: Cores (2017) Moneda Antigua de la Península Ibérica, Parte 1, No. 3365 (this coin illustrated).
Also: Moneda Iberica (Ripollès & Gonzalbes, eds.), MIB 194/13 (primary “digital plate coin” for type).

(Photo credit: CNG.) Collection History:
Amb. Patrick Villemur (1946-) [Burgan 31 (Paris, 6 Nov 1992), 84; Triton XI (8 Jan 2008), 2];
Nomus Brasiliana [Noenio Spinola (1940-), Brazil] Coll. (NB206).
Exhibited: BM&F Bovespa [B3 SA, São Paulo Stock Exchange] (28 Apr-26 Aug 2011);
Associação Comercial da Bahia, “Dinheiro, Deuses & Poder…” (29 Sep 2011 –);
BM&F [“Music, Mathematics & Money”] (12 Apr 2015 – 3 Nov 2016);
Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (30 Nov 2016 – 31 Jan 2017).
Published: Depeyrot (2002) Numéraire Celtique (v. 1) 130.54 (this coin cited);
RPC I Online 507, ex. 14 (illustrated, post-publication);
(prob., yet to find copy) Spinola (2011), Dinheiro, Deuses & Poder: A História Política do Dinheiro (“Gods, Money & Power: The Political History of Money”).

(Photo credit: Leu.) Collection Hist.:
Felix de Saulcy (1807-1880) Collection [Cahn 81 (5 Apr 1933), 1606 (part)];
Fürstenberger Münzkabinett (Prince Karl Egon II [1796-1854] & descendants, curated by Freiherr Franz Simon von Pfaffenhoffen [1797-1872]);
Gottlieb Wüthrich (1879-1946) Collection [Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1970s-80s, possibly FPL 445 (Jun 1982), 210 (“Av. décentré”)];
“Old Swiss Collection,” formed 1970s [Leu WA 11 (22 Feb 2020), 4];
Joachim Schlüter Collection [Leu WA 20 (16 Jul 2022), 109).
Publication Hist.: Wüthrich 115 (this coin cited on p. 28 & illustrated on Pl. V, 22), in Wüthrich, G. (1945), “Celtic Numismatics in Switzerland,” Numismatic Chronicle 5: 1-33, Pl. I-VII.

(Photo credit: Roma.) Collection Hist.:
Hermann Lanz (1910-1998) [part II, Roma XVIII (London, 2019 Sept 29), 115].
Exhibited: Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, 1997 International Numismatic Congress, Berlin; Berliner Bank, 1997;
Luitpoldblock Palmengarten, Munich 2003.
Published: Kostial – Lanz 422 (this coin, illustrated) in Kelten im Osten: Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Sammlung Lanz (1997 & 2003 eds., Munich: Staatliche Münzsammlung).
Also: “Digital plate coin” on Numista # 190528.

(Photo credit: Naville.) Collection History:
Elvira Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001) [Naville 38 (10 Mar 2018), Lot 41 (corr., denom.)].
Published: Plate coin in E. E. Clain-Stefanelli (1987) RBN, “Fractional Silver Coinage of Sicily and Magna Graecia” [PDF], plate XII, fig. 32-33, and p. 57.
Notes: The AR Hemilitron is much rarer than the larger Litra. The best known example is the Herzfelder / Münzhand. Basel 4 specimen (Prince W.) = ANS (Newell) (same obv. die as mine). ACSearch archives 2 more: M&M GmbH 49, 32 & BFA EA 64, 115 = EA 32, 137. Unique w/ controls: K (or <?) / I (Zeta, or sideways H [Eta]?).

(Photo credit: CNG.) Collection History:
Miguel Muñoz (1909-1989) [Part III, Superior (Beverly Hills, 10 Jun 1981), 1512];
Robert W. Bartlett (1931-2017);
American Numismatic Society [Bartlett Bequest; CNG Keystone 4 (2 Sep 2021), Lot 9].
Prov. & Numis. Notes: See Note (Bartlett-Muñoz) on the collectors & unpublished (unique?) var.

(Photo credit: Naville.) Collection History:
“Lord Grantley,” John Richard-Brinsley Norton (1855-1943), 5th Baron of Grantley [Glendining & Co, Grantley part VI (29 Jun 1944), Lot 2251 or 2252 (part of 44 or 59), likely acq. Sotheby (1936) Mavrojani sale];
Richard Cyril Lockett (1873-1950) Collection w/ tray tag written in his own hand, Part II: Greek I [Glendining (25 Oct 1955), 981 (part of 8)];
Cornelius Vermeule (1925-2008) Collection, sold for the benefit of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts [Triton III (30 Nov 1999), prob. 1655 (part)];
prob. Mavrojani Collection [noted in this coin’s likely record in Lockett’s purchase notebooks (Greek 12 AE Sicily); Lockett’s ex-Mavrojani Greek AE came mostly (entirely?) via Grantley; he often recorded only the former].
Notes: On Grantley VI & R.C. Lockett, see Grantley Note below. (Grantley bio: PDF from BNS.)
Incidentally, I do have a much nicer Pyrrhos Herakles/Athena AE, but I haven’t found anything too exciting about its prov. (to 1983).

Above: Lockett tag & notebook. Below: Grantley. His bio avail. in PDF from BNS.

(Photo credit: CNG, 2005.) Collection History:
Ex Thomas Virzi (1881-1974);
“Tony Hardy” (dec. by c. 2002?) Collection [NAC Auction I (19 May 1999), Lot 1137; CNG EA 116 (15 Jun 2005), Lot 56].
Published: Virzi (n.d.) The Tom Virzi Collection of Greek Bronzes, No. 512;
R. Calciati (1987) Corpus Nummorum Siculorum: La Monetazione di Bronzo, III: 2 st 4/5;
A. Campana CNAI (PN 98, 1996) 1.A (this coin cited on p. 35).
See Also: Greek Overstrikes Database (G.O.D.) 19640 (this coin).
Notes: A fascinating overstrike, remnants of the Syracuse Drachm design combining to create unique imagery: on the obverse, Apollo (otherwise laureate) appears to wear Athena’s helmet; and, on the reverse, the frame of the lyre (or kithara) is constructed from Syracuse’s pair of dolphins.
The patina is worse in hand (but better than Noble 130’s photo!); the overstrike is most visible in CNG’s photo (reproduced in Callataÿ’s database).
See the Virzi-Hardy Collections Note, below.

(Photo credit: CNG [ed.].) Collection Hist.:
Dr. Jay M. Galst (1950-2020) [CNR XXV, “A Selection of Macedonian Fractions” (Summer 2000), 22; CNG EA 531.1 (25 Jan 2023), 78], w/ his hand-written label & small typed tag (from ANS exhibit?).
Published: OIN XIII.9 (this coin illustrated) in Galst & van Alfen, Ophthalmologia Optica et Visio in Nummis (2013, NY: ANS) [Google Books: 118-p. preview];
Marathaki (2014; The history and coinage of ancient Skione in Chalcidice[?]) No. 93 (E70/O67), Page 81 (catalog), p. 284 (sale catalog index), Plate 27 & 57 (enlarged 2x). Only known specimen of its obverse die
Exhibition Hist.: Possibly part of exhibition, “Ophthalmologia in Nummis,” at American Numismatic Society (NYC, dates uncertain). Galst frequently exhibited coins & medals; the small white tag appears to be a display tag, perhaps assoc. w/ book’s publication.

(Photo credit: Stack’s.) Collection Hist.:
Richard Cyril Lockett (1873-1950) Collection [acq. Baldwin’s n.d.; Part VI/Greek II, Glendining (London, 12 February 1958), Lot 1378 (part, not ill.)];
Salton Collection, Mark Salton-Schlessinger (1914-2005) & Lottie Salton (née Aronstein, 1924-2020) [Stack’s Bowers NYINC 16 Jan 2023 (Salton Greek, Part II), Lot 26097];
NGC 6369914-015.
Published: SNG Lockett 1501 (this coin illustrated) in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. British Series. Volume III. The Lockett Collection. Part II (1942, London).
Notes: Salton’s collector tag for Lot 26099 was mistakenly incl., prev. SNG Lockett 1499 (prov. not noted by Stack’s but recognized by Kolner when it reappeared a few months later; I bid unsuccessfully both times).

(Photo credit: CNG.) Collection Hist.:
Ex 1992 Thessalonike Area Hoard (CH VIII, 426).
Published: Ashton (2002, NC), “Clubs, Thunderbolts, Torches, Stars and Caducei…” p. 62, No. 79 & pl. 13 (this coin illustrated).

(Photo credit: CNG.) Collection Hist.:
Jean P. Lambros (1843-1909) [Hirsch XXIX (Munich, 9 Nov 1910), 316; see Note 2-a];
F. Robert Jameson (1861-1942) [collection bought en bloc by Jacob Hirsch];
(prob.) Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955) Estate [acq. by Bank Leu, Zurich, c. 1955; but sold when?];
BCD Collection [NAC Auction D (Zurich, 2 Mar 1994), 1397; CNG EA 290 (7 Nov 2012), 20];
Jim Gilman [acq. Kirk Davis, 2014; later, Kirk Davis 78 (2021), 25 & CNG 120 (11 May 2022), 91];
w/ BCD tag & photos, NAC labels, Gilman’s envelope;
(see also this coin in my “Catalog Collection Favorites”; the lovely photo of the coin & U.S. penny below comes from a Kirk Davis’ VCoins listing; my “coin in hand video” also available).
Published: Jameson 1081A, in Collection R. Jameson: Monnaies Grecques Antiques (1913, Paris: Feuardent), desc., Vol 1, p. 245 & ill., Vol 2, Pl. XCIV) [Note 2-b].
Notes: BCD wrote the following about another silver fraction from the Jameson Collection (Nr. 2057), which could equally apply to this one:
“It is not often that a collector is lucky enough to acquire a coin that has been owned and handled by such legendary collectors as the above. This writer is awed by the aura of previous owners to whom the name of Jacob Hirsch, a dealer, should be added as he catalogued and sold this coin twice…” [BCD Lokris-Phokis 52.]

(Photo credit: Nomos.) Collection Hist.:
Collection sans Pareille [Nomos 29 (5 Nov 2023), 724];
Leo Mildenberg (1913-2001) Collection [acq. en bloc by CsP, 1970s];
Münzen und Medaillen FPL 206 (Dec 1960), 21.
Published: Liampi 1996, p. 106 Group I.I.B, 4d [specimen “d”] (this coin cited to MMAG, unill.).
Notes: Taurokathapsia issue, as the chalkous below. Not mentioned in Nomos 26, a trident is faintly visible behind the bull (the event honored Poseidon). See the “coin in hand video.”

(Photo credit: CNG.) Collection Hist.:
BCD Collection [Triton XV (NYC, 3 Jan 2012), Lot 115 (part), w/ auction tag, but sadly no BCD tag].
Published: BCD Thessaly II 115.4.
Notes: See the “coin in hand video.”

I have two “shelf copies” of BCD Thessaly II, ex Libraries of David Hendin (unfortunately w/out any annotations!) & Alois Wenninger. (My day-to-day copy lacks any notable “object bio.”) (See this copy [ex Hendin] on my “Catalog Collection Favorites.”)

(Photo credit: CNG.) Provenance & Collection Hist.:
Ex Thessaly Hoard, 1993 (CH IX, 64);
BCD Collection [Triton XV (NYC, 3 Jan 2012), Lot 218].
Publication History: BCD Thessaly II 218;
Lorber-Shahar (2007) “Early Facing Head Drachms of Larissa (Catalog),” O6/R3, specimen A (this coin, citing Thess. Hoard No. 18);
Lorber (2009, SNR) “Thessaly 1993 Hoard (CH IX 64),” page 131, No. 9 & Plate 9 (this coin illustrated).

Note: On the revised chronology of Lorber (1992, FW) & Thess. Hoard 1993 numbers, see also Lorber (2008, AJN). See “provenance chart” (1993-2021) for this coin or the Blog Post: “‘Provenance Diagrams’ for Ancient Coins“:

(Photo credit: Jackson-Jacobs.) Collection Hist.:
Dr. S. Pozzi (1846 – 1918) Collection [Naville Ars Classica I (Lucerne, 14 Mar 1921), 1236];
BCD Collection [Nomos Auction 4 (Zurich, 10 May 2011), Lot 1433 (part) ; poss. acq. Berlin 1981 (see LHS 96, 1037), among “some rare fractions from the Pozzi collection. An old collection dispersed?”];
Sheik Saoud Al-Thani (1966-2014) [NAC Auction 133 (“Collection of a Man in Love with Art, Part V,” Zurich, 21 Nov 2022, Lot 59].
Published: Serge Boutin 2826 (this coin illustrated) in Monnaies Grecques Antiques Provenant de la Collection de feu le Prof. S. Pozzi (1979, Maastricht: van der Dussen) [my two sets of Boutin (1979) are from the Salton Library & Bibliothek Wenninger];
BCD Thessaly I 1433.7 (this coin, p. 158) [one of my copies ex Bibliothek Wenninger].
See also: Sprawski (2014) “Peltasts in Thessaly” p. 96, note 9 (this coin cited) & Sprawski (2009) Tessalia, Tessalowie i ich sąsiedzi, p. 142, n. 335 & p. 161 (this coin cited).
Possibly also (see Rogers-Pozzi Note): Rogers (1932) The Copper Coinage of Thessaly, p. 142 (this coin cited in error). Described as being in Rev. Edgar Rogers (1873-1961) Collection: “E.R. ex Pozzi 1236 (Fig. 234).” Being a book about Thessaly’s AE, however, a different coin of Pelinna is described & illustrated.
Notes: Re: Dr. Pozzi, see Note 2C, Pozzi Bio. See also the Corinth AR Stater, below.

(Photo credit: CNG.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
BCD Collection [Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 23 (Munich, 18 Oct 2007), Lot 278 (part)];
CGB (Paris) Live Auction 7 June 2022, Lot 26;
BCD Akarnania 278.1.

(Photo credit: CNG.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
reportedly found in Phokis;
BCD Collection [Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 23 (Munich, 18 Oct 2007), Lot 42];
Michel Thys, Sammlung Flussgötter-Darstellungen [Jacquier 52 (15 Sep 2023), Lot 513];
BCD Akarnania 42.

(Photo credit: Naville.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
Ex BCD Lokris-Phokis Duplicates [var. Naville Numismatics Auctions; BCD’s tags apparently lost];
these coins illustrated in Humphris & Delbridge (2014), Coinage of the Opountian Lokrians [PDF avail. from RNS] from plaster casts made by BCD;
Findspots: 114a: C. Greece [corr., info. for 118c] ; 123a: — ; 40a: Halos ; 12a: Phokis ; 8a: Psophis.
Notes: I have several others that are cited but not illustrated. The H-D corpus of Lokris Opuntii is a great illustration of what made the BCD Collection so valuable for scholarship. The initials BCD appear in the text & catalog over 2,000 times & a considerable portion of the plate coins are illustrated from hand-made casts from the collection (made by the collector, I would guess; many other studies use his little hand trimmed life-size photos).

(Photo credit: Naville.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
Ex Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, Duplicates (reportedly);
(prob.) C.J. Holm [early 1960s; c. 1966-1975];
BCD Lokris-Phokis Duplicates [Naville 14 (11 Apr 2015), 54 (unsold); BCD’s tags apparently lost afterward];
this coin cited in Humphris & Delbridge (2014), p. 207, group 23.1 (unidentified dies, final coin).
Provenance Notes: On the provenance history of the Copenhagen Duplicates, via the Holm & BCD Collections, see Note 3 below.

(Photo credit: NAC.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
BCD Collection [NAC 55 (Zurich, 8 Oct 2010), 197];
BCD Lokris-Phokis 197 (this coin illustrated, p. 78).

(Photo credit: NAC.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
Ex BCD Collection [NAC 55 (Zurich, 8 Oct 2010), 198];
Münzen und Medaillen FPL 494, “Antike Kleinmünzen” (Nov-Dec 1986), Nr. 30];
BCD Lokris-Phokis 198 (this coin illustrated, p. 78);
Wildwinds (Phokis) “digital plate coin,” BMC 61-63 (this coin illustrated for type).

(Photo credit: Naville.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
BCD Collection [NAC 55 (Zurich, 8 Oct 2010), 229 (part)];
BCD Lokris-Phokis 229.3 (this coin illustrated, p. 86).

(Photo credit: Naville.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
BCD Collection [NAC 55 (Zurich, 8 Oct 2010), 281 (part)];
BCD Lokris-Phokis 281.3 (this coin illustrated, p. 104).
High-relief designs: artistic & wonderful! Coin-in-hand video (imgur [25s], YouTube [20s]):

My favorite die-pair among Triobols of the Third Sacred War (Wiki). Struck by Philomelos, Strategos of the Phokian League, who famously plundered the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in 356 (see Hammond JHS 1937). The Sacred War coins, which funded mercenary forces, must have been struck mostly from the Apollonion‘s looted silver (see Williams 1972: 46-62ff; Head 1911: 339; Carradice 1995: 12-3, 49; Carradice & Price: 79).
A grave sacrilege, of course. (Apollo had his revenge on the Phokians.) The Lokrians melted down recovered coins.
A generation later, Apollo gave his blessing for an issue of Amphictyonic Staters from his temple’s silver, c. 336, to rebuild after it was damaged by an earthquake. (Might the Phokian League have had a secret admirer in Poseidon?)

Note: Is that a Rho or a curl? Phokian engravers’ initials/signatures are unknown (but see Lokrian ΠY & ΠO), so it would be a surprise to find one. But Williams’ die R.195 has what looks like a tiny character above Apollo’s hair (10h).
Rho would be an uncommon initial, but the name “Rhodios” (Ῥόδιος) is attested in this region & period (LGPN). Two 4th cent. Ionian numismatic POΔΙΟΣ: Miletos Drachms (c. 340-325; ACSearch exs.) & Ephesos Tetradrachms (c. 360s; Kunker 204, 290; see also CH IX 421: pp. 178, 200 [contact me for the cited ill., Hesperia 40/41, 92]).
On Williams’ plates one might take it for curls; here it looks like a letter.
(Third coin [Obolos 21, 316], the only other fully-struck specimen I find in ACSearch. I suspect similarly of R.193; see BCD Lokris-Phokis 279.1 = CNG 99, 115 = e460, 187 = Roma 2, 180. My reading of another possible Rho in the same field on R.193 might be consistent w/ Williams’ suggestion that “All the heads of Apollo are…the work perhaps of a single artist” [p. 63] — Rhodios of Phocis? Other hypotheses are possible.)

(Photo credit: Noble.) Collection Hist.:
BCD Collection;
W.P. Wallace (1907-1965).
Notes: See Wallace Note. Probably one of the seven such obols in the metallurgical analysis in Wallace’s (1962, NC) “The Early Coinages of Athens and Euboia” (p. 27, “Obol, no letter (7)”).
Quick coin-in-hand video: On Youtube or Imgur.

(Photo credit: Nomos.) Collection Hist.:
John Aiello Collection [Nomos Obolos 33 (11 Sep 2024), 255];
BCD Collection (w/ collector tag, corr. different coin, same hoard);
W.P. Wallace (1907-1965);
Ex IGCH 230, “Euboea, before c. 1940” Hoard (Mørkholm & Thompson 1973: p.37 ; see also CoinHoards.org entry).
Publication Hist.:
Wallace 1956: p. 121, “Wallace AE 2” (Hoard 3), No. 8 (wreath, 2nd, 4.4g; this coin cited);
Picard p. 194, Em. 33, “trésor Wallace” n. 2, 8 (this coin cited).
Notes : The obverse is usually described only as “veiled female” but Wallace suggested Isis. (There was a Temple of Isis at Eretria.)
Provenance Notes: BCD’s tags for coins from the Wallace hoard were mixed up; I received the tag belonging to the first coin w/ star above (5.26g, 12h). Always put weights on your tags: It didn’t prevent the mix-up this time, but including weight to 0.01g helped identify & mitigate it. See also Wallace Note.
Addl. Images: BCD Tags (corr., on Imgur), publication collage (larger on Imgur), signed/inscribed copy of Wallace 1956 (larger photo on Imgur).

(Photo credit: CNG.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
BCD Collection [Lanz 105 (Munich, 25 Nov 2002) 587 = BCD Euboia 587].
See also: This coin illustrated online (after Lanz 105) by University of Lausanne, Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, with their excellent index of BCD Euboia.

(Photo credit: Nomos.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
John Aiello Collection [Nomos Obolos 33 (11 Sep 2024), 302];
BCD Collection [LHS 96 (Zurich, 8 May 2006), 107 = BCD Peloponnesos 107, p. 46-47];
Publication: BCD Peloponnesos 107, pp. 46 (text), 47 (ill.) [cataloged by Alan S. Walker, 2006, Leu Numismatics];
HGC (5) 172 (this coin illustrated), p. 50 in: O. Hoover (2011) Handbook of Coins of the Peloponnesos [Handbook of Greek Coinage, vol. 5] (Lancaster, PA: CNG).

(Photo credit: Forum GB29480.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
BCD Collection [LHS 96 (Zurich, 8 May 2006), 317 (part) = BCD Peloponnesos 317.3, illustrated on p. 91].

(Photo credit: Forum GB29479.) Collection Hist.:
BCD Collection [LHS 96 (Zurich, 8 May 2006), 328 (part)].
Publication: BCD Peloponnesos 328.11;
J. Warren No. 8A.13i in “The Autonomous Bronze Coinage of Sicyon (Part 2)” (1984, NC 144), described on p. 8, illustrated on pl. 1, No. 13.
Also: “Digital plate coin,” Coin Project ID 29479.

(Photo credit: Elsen 155.) Collection Hist.:
BCD Collection [Leu 90 (Zurich, 10 May 2004), 126)];
Marc Bar (1921-2015) Collection [Elsen 155 (16 Jun 2023), 140].
Publication: BCD Olympia 126 [cataloged by Alan S. Walker, Leu Numismatics];
HGC (5) 472, in O. Hoover (2011) Handbook of Coins of the Peloponnesos [Handbook of Greek Coinage, vol. 5] (Lancaster, PA: CNG), pp. 101-2.
Notes: Both of them using this same specimen, Oliver Hoover (HGC) identifies the obv. as Hera, while Alan S. Walker (BCD Olympia) calls her “the eponymous nymph Olympia.” Why the difference?
ASW comments (p. 63) that those wearing a stephane are Hera; those without one (hair in rolls) must be Olympia. Importantly, there is an AR Stater inscribed OΛYMΠIA on the reverse, naming the nymph (BCD Olympia 118, pp. 52-3): “Both the legend and the lack of the stephane prove that she’s not Hera: she reappears, in a more mature and commanding way, on the contemporary issues of the Hera mint (see below, lots 122-127)” — i.e., including my coin, 126.

(Photo credit: CNG 76, part 1.) Collection/Publication Hist.:
Sammlung Gustav Philipsen (Copenhagen, 1853-1925) [Hirsch XXV (25 Nov 1909), 1300 (Pl. XVI)];
E. P. Warren (1860-1928) Collection [Naville Ars Classica XV (2 Jul 1930), Lot 809 (Pl. 28), ex “amateur étranger récemment décédé”];
Lt. Col. Reginald Keble Morcom (1877-1961) Collection;
Christopher Morcom (1939-) Collection of Pedigreed Coins of Greece & the Aegean Islands [CNG 76, part 1 (12 Sep 2007), Lot 562];
Sammlung Prof. Dr. P. R. Franke (1926-2018) [Solidus 108 (8 Nov 2022), Lot 137].
Also: Prob. Ex IGCH 216 (unknown late 19^th century hoard, per BCD & Nicolet; probably 1887-1894/5, when Athens acquired 7 coins); officially “12+” coins (acquired by BMC, 1903); possibly dispersed by Canon [Rev.] William Greenwell (1820-1918)?
See Also: Coinproject ID 76000562, “digital plate coin.”

(Photo credit: Jackson-Jacobs.) Collection Hist.:
Kommerzienrat H. Otto, Stuttgart [Heinrich Otto, Jr. (1856-1931)] [Hess 207 (Lucerne, 1 Dec 1931), 493];
John A Sawhill (1892-1976);
James Madison University (Sawhill Bequest) [Stack’s (NYC, 15 Mar 1979), 157 (part)];
BCD Collection [CNG 81-2 (Lancaster, 20 May 2009), 2327].
Publication: BCD Peloponnesos II 2327;
C. Grandjean No. 203-g (D125/R171 – this coin) in Les Messéniens de 370/369 au 1er Siècle de Notre Èr: Monnayages et Histoire (2003, Athens: Ecole Française).
See also: Mentioned in CoinWeek article announcing the sale at Künker e-sale 65 (23 Feb 2021, Lot 7037): “From the field of Greek coins stands out a rare hemidrachm from Messene, formerly part of the BCD collection.”

(Photo credit: CNG.) Collection Hist.:
Ex 1979/80 Epidaurus Hoard (Coin Hoards VII, 69; CH VIII, 298);
BCD Collection [CNG 84 (5 May 2010), Lot 502, corr. (reference, incomplete prov.)];
Weise Collection [CNG EA 547 (4 Oct 2023), Lot 155, corr. (same)].
Publication Hist.: Requier 105 (R4/D4), this coin illustrated on Pl. 5 in Pierre Requier (1993) “Le Monnayage d’Épidaure à la Lumière d’un Nouveau Trésor,” SNR 72: pp. 29-46, pl. 1-8.

(Photo credit: Nomos [edited].) Collection Hist.:
(prob.) Athanasios Rhousopoulos (1823–1898), before 1890 [prob. ex Hirsch XIII (Rhousopoulos sale, 15 May 1905), 2729 (corr., ref. BMC 22)];
BCD Collection [(prob.) ex Bank Leu, 1979 & presumably old stock of Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955)];
Maleatas Collection of Epidauros [Nomos 24 (Zurich, 22 May 2022), 137.3 (corr.: weight, axis, diameter, provenance)].
Provenance Notes: See Note 4 re: the corrected provenance (?) from Nomos 24.

(Photo credit: Peus.) Collection Hist.:
BCD Collection [LHS 96 (Zurich, 8 May 2006), 1560];
Burkhard Traeger [Peus 430 (Frankfurt, 27 Apr 2922), 56].
Publication: BCD Peloponnesos 1560;
Traeger No. 466 in Arkadien: Die Münzstätten und Münzen von der Archaischen bis zur Hellenistischen Epoche (2021, Bremen: BNG).
See Note 5.

Collection Hist.:
Ex “Peloponnesos Hoard” Spring 1985 (prob. CH VIII 338, Greece, 1986 or Earlier) [per BCD Collector tag];
BCD Collection [LHS 96 (Zurich, 8 May 2006), 1561];
Burkhard Traeger [Peus 430 (Frankfurt, 27 Apr 2922), 56].
Publication: BCD Peloponnesos 1561;
Burkard Traeger No. 454 (?) in Arkadien (2021). See Note 6.

Notes: While the AR Triobols were among the more modest offerings, BCD Peloponnesos I was perhaps the most comprehensive-ever private collection of the Arkadian League. Lot 1511, the opening AR Stater, included the following comment by its cataloger, ASW:
“… the only complete set of Arkadian League staters, assembled by obverse die, ever to appear in a single sale (and it is very unlikely that another complete set will ever appear again).”

(Photo credit: Stack’s.) Collection Hist.:
Salton Collection, Mark Salton-Schlessinger (1914-2005) & Lottie Salton (née Aronstein, 1924-2020) [Stack’s Bowers, “Salton, Part II: Greek” (NYINC 16 Jan 2023), Lot 26097];
NGC 6369943-009.
Publication: Williams 84c (this example cited) in The Confederate Coinage of the Arcadians in the Fifth Century B.C. (ANS, 1965).
Notes: Both dies engraved by the so-called “Athens Master.” See Note 7.

(Photo credit: Stack’s.) Collection Hist.:
Count Georg de Laval (Stockholm, 1883 – 1970) [Glendining’s, “The Property of a Nobleman” (18 Apr 1955), Lot 408.1];
Salton Collection, Mark Salton-Schlessinger (1914-2005) & Lottie Salton (née Aronstein, 1924-2020) [Stack’s Bowers, “Salton, Part I: Greek” (NYINC 14 Jan 2022), Lot 4268; Salton-Schlessinger FPL 27 (Fall 1958), No. 63 (“Ex Major de Laval Collection”)]
Publication: Thompson 540d.3, this coin cited (“Commerce 1955, gr. 16.61”) in The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961, NY: ANS).
Note: See also Salton-Schlessinger FPL 27 & “Property of a Nobleman” [Laval] on Catalog Collection Favorites page. [Also from Salton FPL 27: Laodicea ad Mare, Elagabalus AE.]

(Photo credit: Jackson-Jacobs.) Collection Hist.:
Dr. S. Pozzi (1846 – 1918) [Naville Ars Classica I (Lucerne, 14 Mar 1921), 1688];
Collezione Valerio Traverso (Genova) [Michele Baranowsky (Milan, 25 Feb 1931), 593 (Pl. XXII)].
Publication: Serge Boutin 3756 in Monnaies Grecques Antiques Provenant de la Collection de feu le Prof. S. Pozzi (1979, Maastricht: van der Dussen).
Note: There are multiple digitized copies of Ars Classica I online. The best is probably the BNF – Gallica copy linked above. Daniel L. Koppersmith listed Baranowsky’s Traverso sale in his article on “Important Auction Catalogs Offering Archaic and Classical Greek Coins” (The Celator May 2007: p. 22, 1 star).
Acquired at Glass Shoppe Coins (Tucson, AZ) c. 1991 (not from owner Halden Birt but – I believe – future owner Tony Tumonis): Where was it for 60 years since Baranowsky-Traverso?
Re: Dr. Pozzi, see Note 2C, Pozzi Bio. See also the Pelinna Obol above.
Literature Notes: The Pozzi-Boutin below is ex Salton (larger photo on Imgur; I also have the Wenninger copy).
The Baranowsky-Traverso is ex Libraries of Jacques Schulman (under Maurits, bound by Koster Boekbinderij 1931/2), Harry Bass Jr., Tom Cederlind (reportedly ex Malter Library, possibly in error), Kirk Davis.