Created: 26 Jun 2022. Updated: 24 Mar 2025. Change Log.
Photo Credits: ANS, CNG, Elsen, Kolner, NAC, Nomos, Naumann, Peus, Jackson-Jacobs.Jump ahead: Intro; The Collections & the Catalogs; * Table 1: 10 BCD Sales Online * Brief Biblio;
* Table 2: 100 Coins Ex-BCD *; BCD Collector Tags; In Progress…; Lost BCD Provenances; BCD Supplements; Tributaries.
BCD. 2004. “A Note from the Collector,” in BCD Olympia. Zurich: Leu Numismatics.
“Eventually one realizes that the simple recording in one’s mind of hundreds, perhaps thousands of related coin images has become a virtual time bridge between Antiquity and our Era.”
INTRO
This page provides background on the BCD Collection(s) and information about ex-BCD coins and literature in my collection or elsewhere in trade. I haven’t communicated directly w/ BCD, so everything here comes from published sources I’ve found as a collector myself.
Formed since the 1960s, the BCD Collection was named for the initials of its author. (He is not exactly “anonymous,” but I’ll respect the acronym while it remains his stated preference.) With some exceptions, it covered the coinage of Central Greece from its beginnings through Roman period.
Though a private collection, it should also be seen as something more: a scholarly corpus, arranged over decades, its ultimate goal to contribute to numismatic research. The culmination was a series of 10 auction catalogs that became instant classics, one-by-one elevating the scholarship in their respective areas.
The 10 major sales were held by 7 firms in 3 countries over a span of more than 11 years. (See below, Table 1: 10 BCD Sales Online.) Each catalog now serves as an essential reference for its region’s coinage, from the earliest Archaic series through the last of the Roman Imperial.
They are known by the following titles: BCD Akarnania & Aetolia, BCD Boiotia, BCD Corinth, BCD Euboia, BCD Lokris-Phokis, BCD Olympia, BCD Peloponnesos I, BCD Peloponnesos II, BCD Thessaly I, and BCD Thessaly II.
My own collection includes about 100 coins ex-BCD, incl. at least one each from the 10 major catalogs. (None from the anonymous sales of AE from Athens & Salamis.) The catalogs themselves are highly collectible and can be challenging to acquire.
The BCD Library in Athens is one of the most extensive private libraries of Greek coinage [* update: “was” — it is now being dispersed, starting w/ Kolbe & Fanning 169 (17 Feb 2024)]. Since 1983, the librarian has been Patricia A. Felch, also co-founder. (The scholar-collector & numismatic bibliophile Andrew McCabe published a “travelogue” of his 2012 BCD Library visit: NBS summary, Flickr photos; see also his website.) My collection includes various books and sale catalogs “de-accessioned” from the BCD Library and sold at annual “Duplicates” sales (Auctiones GmbH [2014-16], Jacquier [2017-22]).
It can feel odd to focus on the collection of someone still active in classical numismatics. (Unlike, say, those of Dattari or E & V Clain-Stefanelli.) What makes it worth bibliographic attention, though, is not its size (I suspect estimates of 50,000 coins are low)[*] nor its masterpieces. Instead, as Alan S. Walker wrote of the first catalog, BCD Corinth was “for the first time in 70 years…an auction catalogue of ancient coins that is also a lasting standard reference for the series it contains” (The Celator Vol. 16, No. 2, Feb 2002).
Marcus Aurelius Bronze (BCD Corinth 721).
Background: Lot 721 in Lanz Auktion 105 catalog (“Münzen von Korinth: Sammlung BCD”).
Nine more major catalogs followed (plus countless supplementary sales), often surpassing BCD Corinth in quality, comprehensiveness, and scholarly importance, resulting in an astonishing corpus of Central Greek coinage and one of the greatest-ever series in numismatic sale literature. Six years after his comment above (with the most important sales still to come), ASW described the BCD Collection without exaggeration as “the most important and academically vital collection of the coinage of ancient Greece ever formed” (AJN 2008: p. 611).
For the areas it covers, the BCD Collection is as important in the 21st century as the BMC was in the 20th.
THE COLLECTIONS & THE CATALOGS
All of the major BCD catalogs are now important references. Below, I include links for ACSearch records covering nearly every lot from all 10 sales, though group lots are not included or illustrated. Remarkably, the print catalogs illustrate every single coin full-size. (The catalogs were often financed by the collector, as no firm would consider it commercially worthwhile.)
As far as I know, only three of the print catalogs are available online as PDFs from the firms. Personally, I use ACSearch for many purposes. But the catalogs contain a great deal of important material not available in archives of auction lots.
TABLE 1:
THE TEN MAJOR BCD SALES & ONLINE AVAILABILITY
Plus: Anonymous Sales of Athens & Salamis
| Collection / Catalog | Auction (date) | Online Availability in ACSearch and digitized print catalogs (I recommend downloading NAC 55, Triton XV, Nomos 4). Text in English unless indicated otherwise. |
| BCD Akarnanien und Aetolia | Munzen & Medaillen GmbH 23 (18 Oct 2007) | ACSearch 587 lots (group lots shown in one group photo, difficult for large groups, German); cataloged by Hans Voegtli, w/ intro & notes by BCD (English). [Daehn 3795.] |
| BCD Boiotia | Triton IX [CNG] (10 Jan 2006) | ACSearch first 630 lots only (doesn’t separate Triton IX.1 [BCD] from the next parts, printed in separate catalogs; group lots shown in one group photo, difficult for large groups, but avail. on CNGcoins.com archive); cataloged by BCD. [Daehn 3894; see also: A.S. Walker’s (Jan 2006) review, The Celator 20 (1): 35ff.] |
| BCD Corinth [Korinth] | Lanz 105 (26 Nov 2001) | ACSearch 931 lots only (of 981, all single lots, German, unclear why 50 are absent); cataloged by Hubert Lanz (German), w/ intro & notes by BCD (English). [Daehn 4269; see also: A.S. Walker’s (Feb 2002) review, The Celator 16 (2): 26ff.] |
| BCD Euboia | Lanz 111 (25 Nov 2002) | ACSearch 604 lots (all single lots, German); cataloged by Hubert Lanz (German), w/ intro & notes by BCD (English). [Daehn 3938; see also: excellent index of BCD Euboia from Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (U. Lausanne)] |
| BCD Lokris-Phokis | NAC 55 (8 Oct 2010) | ACSearch 475 lots (group lots shown all in one photo, difficult for large groups); pdf catalog available from NAC website (and Issuu) or via Archive; cataloged by BCD. [Daehn 3956] |
| BCD Olympia | Leu 90 (10 May 2004) | ACSearch 344 lots (only one coin shown for the multiple lots of ~3-14 ea., fully illustrated in print); cataloged by ASW. [Daehn 4364; see also: U. Kampmann’s (May 2004) article, “Olympia and Its Coins,” The Celator 18 (5): 40ff, ill. many coins from Leu 90.] |
| BCD Peloponnesos I | LHS 96 (8 May 2006) | ACSearch 1,771 lots (only one coin shown per group lot, fully illustrated in print); cataloged by ASW, w/ “notes from BCD.” [Daehn 4296; see also: U. Kampmann’s (April 2006) article, The Celator 20 (4): 33ff.] |
| BCD Peloponnesos II | CNG 81.2 (20 May 2009) | ACSearch 921 lots (nrs. 2000-2921 only) (digital index combines 81.1 [non-BCD] & 81.2 [BCD], which were actually separate catalogs); cataloged by CNG staff (?): “Unlike the previous offerings…the collector has not had any input… Having worked hand-in-hand with BCD…in Triton IX, his preferences have been ever present in our minds…”. [Daehn 3291] |
| BCD Thessaly I | Nomos 4 (10 May 2011) | ACSearch 437 lots (large group lots show tiny photos [e.g., 1435 of 31 AR], I’ve had trouble with Nomos online archive, but CNG archive includes “Nomos 3 & 4” & shows all); pdf catalog available on Issuu; famously cataloged by ASW w/ back-and-forth commentary from BCD on almost 1/3 of the lots. [Daehn 3873; see also: A.S. Walker’s (Oct 2011) after-auction report, The Celator 25 (10): 32ff.] |
| BCD Thessaly II | Triton XV [CNG] (3 Jan 2012) | ACSearch first 1,000 lots only (doesn’t separate XV.1-2 from XV.3 [non-BCD], printed in separate catalogs, only one coin per group lot, CNG’s web archive shows all); pdf catalog on Issuu or on Archive; cataloged by BCD (the back-and-forth w/ ASW must be inferred!). [Daehn 3843] |
| Below: Early Unnamed Sales, BCD Collection of AE from Attica | ||
| Salamis AE (anonymous) | CNG 38 (6 Jun 1996) & 39 (16 Sep 1996) | Not on ACSearch, but both catalogs available as PDFs: CNG MBS 38 on Issuu or on Archive: intro by John H. Kroll on p. 38, full p. map on p. 40, 27 lots (278-294); CNG MBS 39 on Issuu or on Archive: Kroll’s “Synopsis” again, pp. 50-1, 21 lots (478-498). See also: CNG Triton I (2 Dec 1997), Lot 496, on Issuu or on Archive. |
| Athens AE (anonymous) | CNG 50 (23 Jun 1999) & 51 (15 Sep 1999) | Not on ACSearch, but both catalogs available as PDFs: CNG MBS 50 on Issuu or on Archive: intro on p. 93, 69 lots (688-756); CNG MBS 51 on Issuu or on Archive: pp. 40-2, 29 lots (303-331). |
Brief External Bibliography of BCD Sales:
I recommend Warren W Esty’s valuable page annotating the important BCD sales (I keep a printed copy on the shelf with my catalogs): http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/BCD.html. See also: indexes of LHS 96 by WWE & ASW. For his catalog annotations generally, see “Contents of Sale Catalogs (by firm)(by collecting theme).”
Also, William Daehn’s (2012) Annotated Bibliography of Ancient Greek Numismatics: 3795 (Akarnania), 3843 (Thessaly II), 3873 (Thessaly I), 3894 (Boiotia), 3938 (Euboia), 3956 (Lokris-Phokis), 4269 (Korinth), 4291 (Peloponnesos II), 4296 (Peloponnesos I), 4364 (Olympia).
The Fitzwilliam Museum’s (Cambridge) List of Numismatic Auction Catalogues and Fixed Price Lists gives the BCD Collection a separate section (I find no others so listed) and cites 5 additional sales — 4 for Boiotia (CNG 72, 73, 75; Triton X), one for Thessaly (CNG 90), “plus many lots in various of the CNG e-auctions.” (Most of Fitzwilliam’s “BCD Supplements,” as I call them, are in accord with Esty’s and Brousseau’s, but each author gives a slightly different set.
Peruse also: FORVM FAC 15065 (msg 749149 ff.); Louis Brousseau’s (2010: p. 575) “Annexe” to his RN review of Spring’s Ancient Coin Auction Catalogs.
TABLE 2:
c.100 EX-BCD COINS IN THE JACKSON-JACOBS COLLECTION
(plus Library Duplicates, BCD Catalogs, other Literature)
Some provenances & “tributaries” in brackets (i.e., notable collections from which & into which BCD coins “flowed”). For online catalogs, see Table 1. Photo Credits: Many images from auctions.
| REGION | CATALOG (or Duplicates Sale) | COIN IN JJ COLL. | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
Akarnania | BCD Akarnanien und Aetolia (Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 23, 18 Oct 2007) | 2 (Lots 42, 278.1) | Federal AE (Athena / Achelous) & Leukas AR Stater |
Boeotia | BCD Boiotia (Triton IX, 10 Jan 2006) | 1 (Lot 277) | Tanagra AR Obol |
 | Duplicates (Kolner; Nomos) | 3 | Federal AE Chalkous, another [ex-Aiello, Petsalis], Orchomenos AE [ex-Aiello, Lindgren II 1513] |
Corinth | BCD Korinth (Lanz 105, 26 Nov 2001) | 1 (Lot 721) | Marcus Aurelius AE (Diassarion?) [RPC 7589.2] |
Euboia | BCD Euboia (Lanz 111, 25 Nov 2002) | 2 (Lots 587, 133) | Karystos AE (Countermarked), Chalkis Obol [ex-“Collection sans Pareille” of Ancient Greek Fractions, Part III, 1291] |
 | Duplicates (Kolner; CNG/Noble; FAC; Nomos) | 4 | Histiaia AE Chalkous, Eretria Octopus Obol [ex-WP Wallace Coll.], Chalcis AE, League AE [ex-Aiello, WP Wallace, IGCH 240] |
Lokris-Phokis | BCD Lokris-Phokis (NAC 55, 8 Oct 2010) | 5 (Lots 157.5, 197, 198, 229.3, 281.3) | Countermark AE [ex-Jarman Coll., H&D p. 218 (cited) = RPC 1342.14], Phokian League AR Hemiobols (2), Phokian League AR Triobols (2) |
 | Duplicates (Naville) | 14+ | AR Bull/Boar Obols (2), Phokian & Lokrian AEs (12) [8+ Humphris-Delbridge Plate Coins] |
Olympia | BCD Olympia (Leu 90, 10 May 2004) | 1 (Lot 126) | Elis AR Obol [ex-Marc Bar, HGC Plate Coin] |
 | Duplicates (Kolner; Künker) | 2 | Elis AE (2) [one ex-J. Cohen]; Apollo / Zeus AE [ex-Petsalis] (types represented in both BCD Pelo & Olympia) |
Peloponnesos | BCD Peloponnesos I (LHS 96, 8 May 2006) | 6 (Lots 107, 317.3, 328.11, 1074.2, 1560, 1561) | Phlious AE [ex-Aiello, HGC 172 plate], Sikyon AE (2), Argolis AE [ex-Milavic 326.3], Megalopolis Triobols (2) [both ex-Traeger] |
 | BCD Peloponnesos II (CNG 81.2, 20 May 2009) | 2 (Lots 2327, 2782) | Messenia Triobol [ex-H. Otto & Sawhill/JMU], Claudius Patras AE [ex-Merani] |
 | Duplicates (Nomos 24 [Lot 137] & Obolos 33; CNG 84 [502]) | 7 | Epidaurus AE (5) [ex-Maleatas Collection et al.] & AR Hemidrachm [Hoard, Requier 105 Plate Coin], Hadrian Sparta AE [ex-Aiello, Petsalis] |
Thessaly | BCD Thessaly I (Nomos 4, 10 May 2011) | 1 (Lot 1433.7) | Pelinna AR Obol [ex-Al Thani; Pozzi 1236] |
 | BCD Thessaly II (Triton XV, 3 Jan 2012) | 3 (Lots 218, 115.4, 952.2 [corr.]) | Larissa AR Drachm [ex-Hoard, Lorber plate coin], Thessalos-Bull AE of Krannon, Hadrian Diassarion [RPC 452.21] |
 | Supplement: Thessalian League (CNG EA 325, 23 Apr 2014) [my page annotating this sale] | 3 (Lots 20, 39, 45 [corr., ref]) | Augustus AE [RPC 1429B.3], Nero AE (2) [RPC 1439.25= Burrer 1= ex-Merani; and RPC 1440.7] |
 | Other Duplicates (CNG, Kirk Davis, et al.) | 55+ | 14 mints, Heraclea Obol [ex-Gilman, Jameson, Lambros], Archaic Larissa Dr. [ex-Grover], Krannon AE [ex-Rogers, Empedocles], Phalanna AE (41) |
BCD Collection Auctions | Sale Catalogs (see also Table 1, above) | 10 (of 10) | Complete set of 10, all from notable numismatic libraries (9 catalogs ex-Bibliothek Alois Wenninger & 4 ex-Hendin; 1 copy “BCD Bound,” signed & inscribed to A. Milavic). |
 | Duplicate Copies | 20+ (of 9) | “Duplicate copies” for 9 of 10 sales, lacking a 2nd copy of BCD Lokris-Phokis (NAC 55). “Triplicates” (or more) for at least 5: BCD Akarnanien (M&M GmbH 23), BCD Boiotia (Triton IX), BCD Peloponnesos I (LHS 96), BCD Peloponnesos II (CNG 81.2), BCD Thessaly II (Triton XV). (Four ex David Hendin sales aren’t really “duplicates” since I bought them for their provenance.) |
 | Other Catalogs w/ BCD Coins | many | CNG MBS 50 & 51, BCD Collection (sold anonymously) of Athens Bronzes, w/ J. Kroll’s intro essay (ex Hendin). Kirk Davis FPLs (esp. Nos. 46, 50*, 51, 53-56, 60, 61); Nomos 24 (Maleatas); CNG Auction 76.1; Merani, NVMMIS HISTORIAM DISCENS (bound selections from Triton XXIV & CNG EA 490); many others. |
Library | BCD Library I (Kolbe & Fanning 169, 17 Feb 2024) | 5 (Lots 325 [part, no. 6], 445, 447) | In leather “BCD bindings”: SNG Berry [two vols. bound as one] & BMC Thessaly. Original bindings: SNG Levante, SNG Levante Supplement, SNG Righetti. |
 | BCD Library II (Kolbe & Fanning 171, 2 Nov 2024) | 2 (Lots 117, 137) | Original bindings: KOINON v. I-III, FIDES (RBW Festschrift). |
 | Duplicates (sales: Auctiones GmbH 28, 39, 51; Jacquier 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50) | many | Many FPL cats. addressed to noted numismatists (“Catalog Favorites”): Salton, CCE, Weaver, et al. Laffaille, JSD (21 FPLs), var. FPL/MBS (25, 3, 18, 10), Malloy 33, Newell, Sawhill-JMU; periodicals (incl. SAN [5] & var. others [7]) |
Misc Literatue: Festschrift | Warternberg & Amandry (eds.). 2015. ΚΑΙΡΟΣ: Contributions to Numismatics in Honor of... NY: ANS | 1 | Ex-Library of Dr. Jay M. Galst (1950-2020); hand-numbered copy #33/200. See also: ANS Lib record & ANS announcement; [ALT: KAIROS; KEROS; KAIPOS] |
“Let them not seek to discover who I was
from all that I have done and said.”the start of Cavafy’s “Hidden Things”
Aside that Doesn’t Fit Anywhere Else: The collector BCD is reportedly both a family relation and a particular fan of the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933). Coincidentally, my copy of an otherwise unrelated book (R.J. Plant’s Greek Coin Types…) came with a line of Cavafy’s poetry inscribed on the rear free endpaper. As it happens, the book’s previous owner, Ray Dobbins (1947-2021, NYC author, AKA Jim Flannigan), had written a play about Cavafy, Read My Hips. (Such “object biographical” treats are why I much prefer literature with evidence of previous owners.)
BCD COLLECTOR TAGS
One of the distinctive and enjoyable things about ex-BCD coins is that they often come with his hand-written round tags. The “obverse” typically gives the mint (and/or ruler’s name) in capital letters on two or three lines of black or blue ink (occasionally also dates and/or a reference). The “reverse” usually provides brief provenance information (source, date) in cursive (or “NO INFORMATION”).
Occasionally the provenance consists of initials (e.g., GMRH), abbreviations (e.g., “Thess.”), or other codes (e.g., “W. of C’m Hd” for “West of Cierium (Kierion) Hoard”). Contemplating them is a familiar pastime among collectors of BCD coins; on occasion, he has even joined the discussion to clarify. If one is lucky, there may be life-size cutout photos (I’ve only seen them with silver coins, such as my Thessaly, Heraclea lion obol below and a couple Lokris-Phokis duplicates; see also the discussion linked above [CT 281007, 9 July 2016]).
The round BCD Collection tags above are shown to scale, before I edited out the background (as in the group photo below). The “mystery code” on the lower reverse (“C.C. ex Thess.”) is a familiar one (as are “T/ne ex Thess.” and “V ex Thess.” and so on). Some can be deciphered with contextual clues and background knowledge; others perpetually frustrate! I don’t know if the square tags are written by BCD or perhaps someone at CNG or Nomos (I only recall seeing them with his Thessalian AE). If you’re lucky enough to get the little photos too, BCD reportedly took them himself.
Discussing a Hadrian bronze and its tag from the collection of Rev. Edgar Rogers (1873-1960/1), the collector wrote in BCD Thessaly, Part II that:
…the Rogers ticket was worth much more than the coin and was always fondly contemplated; an imaginary link with a very different past when there were far fewer Thessalian bronzes around while scholars and collectors studying them had much more time at their disposal.
— Triton XV [CNG] (New York, 3 January 2012), 951.5 [emphasis mine]. See also: Rogers’ BM Bio; his foundational 1932 book on The Copper Coinage of Thessaly is linked in .pdf via Numiswiki [FORVM]. Images of Rev. Rogers tags from a comment I made on FORVM (FAC 103980, Msg 767591, 21 Feb 2022).
Some of my >50 BCD Thessaly Duplicates with his hand-written tags (NOT to scale) cataloging each coin and most of their provenances. Why I love these: At first glance, my 40 new Phalanna AEs seemed highly similar. Comparing them to one another and reading BCD Thess. I & II, though, I came to recognize surprising ranges of variation across the dies (in the styles, details of portraits, legends, control marks/signatures). A single, seemingly narrowly-defined type soon became a multiplicity of sub-categories. They raised historical questions requiring study of Thessalian society; research issues involving the methodology and theory of die-linkage; and challenges relating to the history of numismatic knowledge. (Such as: Who is the male head, why has his identity (identities?) been debated since at least the 19th cent., and by whom? Even: Why do “messengers” figure so prominently in Greek mythology? And then…)
In rare cases, the tags can preserve and embody a link between collectors, scholars, and dealers extending over three, four, or five or more generations. (The more, the better – and rarer!) Surely BCD contemplated his coins’ future lives too. Just as he wrote of Rogers’ tags, BCD tags can be as exciting and intellectually valuable as the coins they accompany. (It’s a small tragedy whenever one is lost, as maybe 1/3 of mine had been. When coins come with old tags, I recommend immediately photographing both sides of the tags with their coins. Then, if mixed up, they can be re-sorted; if lost, a record remains. A database of tag images may come next… “Meepzorp’s” site is a good start, with many different tags illustrated. As it happens, I was once able to identify one of their tags by comparison to my own “dataset” — to the same Rev. Rogers mentioned above!)
Photo: BCD Thessaly Duplicates w/ Collector Photos & Round Tags
Note: The Drachm (left) is an important node in my Provenance Network of overlapping old collections. (Grover’s coll. of Alexandrian was donated to Art Institute of Chicago, c. 1978-1984; many deaccessioned, c. 2017; the Greek sold by Superior in 1986.)
Update: The image above was reproduced in Frank S. Robinson’s blog post about the BCD Library & Collection, and “reprinted” in the February 4, 2024 issue of The E-Sylum 27 (5): Article 3. I love how “meta” that is: Wayne Homren reproducing FSR’s article reproducing my photos of BCD’s photos of the coins!
Excerpt: Lorber. 2009. “Thessaly Hoard Early 1993 (CH IX, 64).” SNR 88: pp. 127-138.
Available Free Online (or PDF download).
One gets the distinct sense that his numismatic project was also a spiritual one: “Eventually one realizes that the simple recording in one’s mind of hundreds, perhaps thousands of related coin images has become a virtual time bridge between Antiquity and our Era,” he wrote in the introduction to BCD Olympia (cataloged by ASW).
IN PROGRESS: FORTHCOMING SECTIONS, PAGES, BLOG POSTS…
Lost and Found (Recovered BCD Provenances): I (usually) try to buy coins only when I think I know something about their provenance that the seller and/or other bidders don’t. This page/post will show some of my coins which had lost their BCD provenance before I bought them (or, in one or two cases, important provenances missed by the collector and great bibliophile himself!), including: BCD Akarnania 278.1; BCD Thessaly II 218 (and prior provenance); BCD Peloponnesos II 2327 (prior provenance); Maleatas Coll. ex-BCD (a possible correction?); and a possible Rev. Rogers provenance lost in BCD Thessaly (or just a Rogers corr.!).
Burrer (1993) Nero 1.1 = BCD Supp. Thess. League 39 (CNG EA 325 [23 Apr 2014], Lot 39) = Merani II 65 = RPC Suppl. 1, 1439 (this example cited). My copy of Burrer (shown above) is ex-Library of Hermann Lanz & Hubert Lanz, whose firm cataloged BCD Korinth (Lanz 105) & BCD Euboia (Lanz 111).
“BCD Supplement” Sales: There are numerous smaller sales of BCD duplicates (at CNG, Lanz, Naville, and elsewhere), as well as secondary sales (e.g., at Kirk Davis, Auctiones GmbH). Most of those were not particularly memorable. But a few are surprisingly valuable – I call them the “BCD Supplements” – containing new materials and references absent from the major BCD sales. One personal favorite is CNG e-Auction 325, with 95 BCD coins of the Thessalian League – a useful companion to RPC and Burrer’s book (in German, illustrating many of the same coins), alongside Triton XV and Nomos 4. (See also Myers FPL Nov. 1977 [“Small Greek Silver,” 126 coins], from which BCD purchased many coins, annotated on my catalogs page.)
Thessalian Heraclea AR Obol & provenance documents: ex Jim Gilman Collection (CNG 120 & Kirk Davis FPL 78), BCD Collection (w/ tag & photos), Jameson (1861-1942) Collection (NAC Auction D), and J.P. Lambros (1843-1909) Collection (Hirsch XXIX).
Tributaries: My collection is far from being the only one explicitly influenced or inspired by BCD’s. I’ve made a special effort to collect BCD coins that also passed through and shaped intermediary collections. Especially: Jim Gilman (CNG 120 & Kirk Davis FPLs), J. Cohen (CNG EA 401), Burkhard Traeger (Peus 430 & Dr. C. Stadler), The Maleatas Collection of Epidauros (Nomos 24), and Sheik Al-Thani (NAC’s “Man in Love with Art,” who bid BCD Thessaly to excessive heights apparently trying to buy every lot). Also: Peter J. Merani, F. Jarman, M. Bar, et al.
Change Log (return to top):
Created: 26 June 2022. Updated: 29 Jun 2022 (coins/catalog added); 17 Jul 2022 (new Thessaly coins added); 22 Nov 2022 (new BCD Lib Duplicates, BCD Thessaly I 1433.7 & Al-Thani “tributary”); 11 May 2023 (added BCD Boiotia 277, BCD Thessaly II 952.2, var. links to RPC Online, etc.); 12 Jun 2023 (added Lanz 111 Catalog & Eretria Obol); 13 Jul 2023 (added BCD Olympia 126); 24 Jul 2023 (added Nomos 4); thru 2 Sep 2023 (edits, minor additions); 19 Dec 2023 (new set of 9 BCD Catalogs from Wenninger Library [Kuenker 399]); 8 Jan 2024 (2 more catalogs ex Hendin; correction: BCD did NOT catalog CNG 81.2 [BCD Peloponessos II]!); 15 Sep 2024 (a few more ex-Aiello et al., still need major update re: Library sale); 24 Mar 2025 (updates to Table 2: Coins & Catalogs).