Person

Name

Merkens, Franz (1823-1905)

Coin collector in Cologne.

Collection sold by J. Hirsch, Auction 14 on 27 November 1905.

Coin of the Gallic Empire in the Merkens Collection were contemporarily identified as originating from a huge hoard in Cologne.

This erroneous attrribution was corrected by H. J. Lückger, Germania 3, 1919, p. 19-20.

In reality most of these coins come from a hoard discovered in 1898 in the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse in Trier.

Lit.: FMRD VI 1-1 p. 22 and p. 669 no. 1012,7; H.-J. Schulzki, Die Antoninianprägung der gallischen Kaiser von Postumus bis Tetricus (1996) p. XIV.

Types

previous Owner Info

VIAF

http://viaf.org/viaf/86083523

GND

https://d-nb.info/gnd/137917074

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG216733

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05.07.2024

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06.07.2024

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