Volume 20, Number 12 · July 19, 1973
The Strange Case of the Missing Coins
By Martin Jessop Price
The property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold by auction by
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum The Collection of the American Numismatic Society: Part 2—Lucania
Society, American Numismatic, 38 plates pp., $25.00
The Catalogue of the Collection of Ancient and Later Coins
Sotheby's, $8.00
The publication of a complete illustrated record of a section of the Greek coin collection in the American Numismatic Society coincides with the disposal of the coins of the Metropolitan Museum by public auction. In the cloak and dagger reports on the museum's purchase of the Euphronios vase, the press has almost completely neglected the dispersal of this other part of the museum's collection, which in two public auctions achieved the amazing total of $3.7 million. In a foreword to the sale catalogues listed above, the president of the Metropolitan, Mr. Dillon, has written:
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