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Eduard Friedrich Weber

d. 1908 · Germany

Hamburg consul whose coin collection, including over forty Cypriot pieces according to CNG, was sold by Jacob Hirsch in Munich in 1908 and 1909.

Biography

Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber of Hamburg left a coin collection that Jacob Hirsch sold in Munich in two parts after Weber's death. The Greek coins were sold on 16 November 1908, and Classical Numismatic Group's later catalogue counts more than forty Cypriot pieces among them2,3. The Roman and Byzantine coins and ancient weights followed on 10 May 1909 as Hirsch's catalogue XXIV1.

In the preface to that catalogue Hirsch calls Weber a rigorous collector with the most important private collection of Roman coins, about 4,650 pieces in all, and says the collection could not be kept together and was therefore recorded in print1. The catalogue of 1908 names him as "Consul Weber, deceased", so he died before the first sale2.

Weber's lot numbers are cited as provenance. A gold hemistater of Pumiathon of Kition, lot 3269 of the sale, passed to the Cote collection and was later offered by CNG3.

Life and work

  1. 10 May 1909
    Roman and Byzantine coins and ancient weights (Part II) sold by Hirsch, Munich (catalogue XXIV); Hirsch writes that the Roman series was the collector's speciality, c. 4,650 pieces in the whole collection, and that it proved impossible to keep it together

    MunichJ. Hirsch (1909). Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber, Hamburg: Römische und byzantinische Münzen (Katalog XXIV). Vorwort, leaf 5

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Sources

  1. 1.J. Hirsch (1909). Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber, Hamburg: Römische und byzantinische Münzen (Katalog XXIV). Vorwort, leaf 5.
  2. 2.J. Hirsch (1908). Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber, Hamburg: Griechische Münzen.
  3. 3.Classical Numismatic Group (2016). Triton XIX (Sessions 3, 4). leaf 11 (provenance 'Ex Cote and Weber Collections'; lot 3269 from card).
  4. 4.(Hamburgischer Correspondent) (1886). Hamburgischer Correspondent, 12 Dec 1886, p. 12. Online
  5. 5.J. Hirsch, 1909, Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber, Hamburg: Römische und byzantinische Münzen (Katalog XXIV), leaf 5.

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