Old Tag (circa 19th century) recognition?

[Operator1997]

This is my first post in this community, so hello!

I am a long time lurker, but normally I am active in the subreddit r/ancientcoins (I recognize some members here and there so hi).

Recently, my latest purchase is a Roman Republic L. Rutilius Flaccus denarius (RRC 387/1), RCV 318, 77 BC, from Incitatus, accompanied by an old envelope, 19th century, which according to the listing, presumably a French or British collection (most likely British).

The most interesting thing was upon sharing it, another member of the subreddit shared me his piece, an Aurelian Tetradrachm from Alexandria (https://imgur.com/a/wbkEoPE), owned by the same individual, down to the formatting and penmanship.

Even if this guy's name may be lost to time, I was hoping to reach out here to see if anybody recognizes or has a similar old coin label of this kind?

Many thanks!

[CPK]

Interesting! Did you ask Steve from Incitatus if he might have any information?

Welcome to the Forum, by the way. 🙂 

[Operator1997]

2 hours ago, CPK said:

Interesting! Did you ask Steve from Incitatus if he might have any information?

Welcome to the Forum, by the way. 🙂 

Thanks CPK. I sent an email to him about it. It's one thing to come across the old label, another to know there's bits of that collection scattered out there. Certainly piqued my curiosity.

[DonnaML]

Certainly not French, or the collector wouldn't have written AD and BC for the dates. Or "Alexandria, Egypt" for the Aurelian. So presumably British or American. Too bad there's no reference to a particular catalog, by which one could determine a terminus post quem.

Edited August 28, 2024 by DonnaML

[Curtisimo]

This is always a good resource to start with for British collectors.

https://www.britnumsoc.org/images/BIOGRAPHIES/6_Coin_Tikts/Coin-Tickets-Main-List-008.pdf
 

I looked and didn’t see anything that jumped out at me as similar but perhaps a closer look might turn up a handwriting match.

[O-Towner]

Just was going through a batch of coins I purchased and put away last year and this was in it. Looks very similar to yours but no idea who it's from. BTW, this one's only around 3" across.

 

[Operator1997]

15 minutes ago, O-Towner said:

Just was going through a batch of coins I purchased and put away last year and this was in it. Looks very similar to yours but no idea who it's from. BTW, this one's only around 3" across.

 

Same format, definitely same individual. Matches up with the Aurelian Tet one of the Redditors has shown me. The AR monogram, the lines and the way the "A" is written.

That confirms three coins from the collection that I have seen by far.