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Rev. H. C. Reichardt

d. 1899

Clergyman and numismatist at Corfu, Cairo and Damascus who published a Ptolemaic tetradrachm with the Paphos mark in 1864; his Holy Land coins were sold in 1899.

Biography

The Rev. H. C. Reichardt published a silver tetradrachm of Ptolemy dated year 36 and bearing the Paphos mint mark, in the Numismatic Chronicle for 1864, page 1891,2. Chr. W. Huber, who discussed the coin in 1867, calls him a learned friend and writes that the piece was "in the possession of Reverend H. C. Reichardt in Corfu". Reichardt sent him a galvanic cast of it, which Huber figured on plate 3, no. 2, and the two read the date differently1.

Huber also names him as one of the numismatists who bought a series from the Ptolemy hoard, and gives him as "in Cairo" for an attribution1. By 1881 he was at Damascus, where Frederic W. Madden thanked him in the preface to Coins of the Jews3.

He had died by 1899, when Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge sold the coins of the Holy Land of "the late Rev. H. C. Reichardt"5. The Ashmolean Museum's report for 1900 lists coins of Palestine and Phoenicia from the collection formed by him, "for many years resident at Damascus"4.

Life and work

  1. 1864
    Published a rare Ptolemaic silver tetradrachm with date year 36 and Paphos mint mark in the Numismatic Chronicle (1864, p. 189).

    Chr. W. Huber (1867). Zur alten Numismatik Aegyptens

  2. 1867
    Sent Huber a galvanic cast of the coin he owned, figured by Huber on plate 3 no. 2.

    CorfuChr. W. Huber (1867). Zur alten Numismatik Aegyptens

  3. 1899
    His coins of the Holy Land were sold at Sotheby's in 1899 as the property of the late Rev. H. C. Reichardt, and a selection of his Palestine and Phoenicia coins (Heliopolis, Sidon, Tyre, Judaea and others) was acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, as reported for 1900. Nothing ties these to Cyprus.

    London(1899). Catalogue of coins of the Holy Land, the property of the late Rev. H. C. Reichardt. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge; (1901). Erwerbungen des Ashmolean Museum zu Oxford. Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Archaeologischer Anzeiger, pp. 162-164, pp. 162-163

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Sources

  1. 1.Chr. W. Huber (1867). Zur alten Numismatik Aegyptens.
  2. 2.H. C. Reichardt (1864). “Coin of Ptolemy Philometor (Paphos, year 36)”. Numismatic Chronicle N.S. 4, p. 189.
  3. 3.Frederic W. Madden (1881). Coins of the Jews.
  4. 4. (1901). “Erwerbungen des Ashmolean Museum zu Oxford”. Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Archaeologischer Anzeiger, pp. 162-164.
  5. 5. (1899). “Catalogue of coins of the Holy Land, the property of the late Rev. H. C. Reichardt”. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.
  6. 6.Madden, Fred. W., Numismatic Chronicle And Journal Of The Numismatic Society 2nd Series Vol.5 (1865).
  7. 7.Chr. W. Huber, 1867, Zur alten Numismatik Aegyptens, leaf 87.
  8. 8.Christian Wilhelm Huber, Zur alten Numismatik Aegyptens (1867).
  9. 9.Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain), The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society (1839).

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