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Auction 12 11 January 2015
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Euboea. Eretria. c. 375-357 BC. Stater, 12.02g (12h). Obv: Head of the nymph Euboia right, wearing half-moon shaped earring, necklace and with her hair up. Rx: EYB Cow lying right; above grapes and two leaves hanging from stalk; all within shallow incuse square. Wallace 9. BCD 4. Babelon, Traité II, 3, 170, pl. CXCVII, 19. While the head of the nymph Euboia is archaized and somewhat pedestrian, the reverse is exquisite. The artist had a wonderful knowledge of the cows of Euboea and this one reclines beautifully on the planchet with a lush bunch of grapes above. Toned EF
Ex Harlan J. Berk Ltd., List No. 1, April 1974, lot 83 (cover coin). Ex Dr. J. Hewitt T. Judd Collection, 1950s
This coin was purchased by the famous author of the U.S. Pattern book, Dr. Hewett T. Judd of Wichita, Kansas, in the 1950s. In the 1960s theives broke into his house hoping to steal his U.S. pattern collection, instead they took his ancient coins. These were then kept in the home of a Mafia member for at least a decade. When they came into the market in about 1970 they were quickly identified as the stolen coins of Dr. Judd. When we brought the coins years later to show them to Dr. Judd, then a man in his mid-80s, he said with a twinkle in his eye that these were not his coins. Of course the insurance company had already paid him a princely sum for his stolen collection
Ex Harlan J. Berk Ltd., List No. 1, April 1974, lot 83 (cover coin). Ex Dr. J. Hewitt T. Judd Collection, 1950s
This coin was purchased by the famous author of the U.S. Pattern book, Dr. Hewett T. Judd of Wichita, Kansas, in the 1950s. In the 1960s theives broke into his house hoping to steal his U.S. pattern collection, instead they took his ancient coins. These were then kept in the home of a Mafia member for at least a decade. When they came into the market in about 1970 they were quickly identified as the stolen coins of Dr. Judd. When we brought the coins years later to show them to Dr. Judd, then a man in his mid-80s, he said with a twinkle in his eye that these were not his coins. Of course the insurance company had already paid him a princely sum for his stolen collection