I don't really pay much attention to the provenance of my coins, as I know somebody had them before me
but here is a neat coin that I used to have in my collection.
This coin came from an old Dutch collection from the academic coin cabinet of Leiden. The ticket says it was a gift from Mr. Elberling in December of 1869.
Dr. Elberling (1797- 1873) had a very large collection of Roman coins with many rarities. He published ten articles about the rarest coins in his collection, and material from these articles was used in Henri Cohen's Roman Imperial catalogues -
Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l'empire romainfrom Curtis Clay
"Dr. Elberling was a German army doctor who was born in 1797 in Silesia, and retired to Luxembourg. He began collecting coins in 1842, after his retirement, and he published ten articles on "The most important Roman Coins in my Collection" in a Luxembourg scientific journal, 1862-1874 (the last posthumous, and with an obituary, whence I derive these facts). He died in Dec. 1873, and his collection, comprising 775 gold coins, over 1000 Republican denarii, c. 2700 Roman imperial denarii, c. 5500 bronze coins, and c. 100 medallions in the various metals, was acquired by the Paris coin dealer Rollin & Feuardent. He particularly sought rare and unpublished coins, and it was 547 coins of this sort that he published in his articles, with 24 plates of quite accurate line drawings. Cohen, and after Cohen's death Feuardent, of course drew on Elberling's ten articles when compiling the second edition of Cohen's famous Roman imperial catalogue.
Victor's coin is a common one, which presumably never formed part of Elberling's core collection. According to his posthumous article of 1874, he had 43 Urbs Roma and Constantinopolis coins in his collection, including one with mintmark TR.P from Trier, presumably not the same coin that he gave his Dutch friend in 1869. He even wrote an essay on these commemorative coins in Zeitschrift fur Munzkunde, Berlin."
VRBS ROMA
A.D. 332-3
15mm 1.4gm
Obv. VRBS-ROMA [City of Rome] Roma, helmeted, wearing imperial cloak.
Rev. She-wolf left with twins (Romulus and Remus); above, two stars.
in ex. TR dot P
RIC VII Trier 542
