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Goethe’s Fresh Existence: Tracing a Legendary 238-Year Provenance and Updating the British Museum’s Record

By Maxim Crispin, Numismatist and Archivist at Hess Divo AG “[...]the old world[...]its precious coins[...]its history of art. Out of these cabinets, there smiles upon us an eternal spring of the blossoms and flowers of art, of a busy life ennobled with high tastes, and of much more besides. Out of these form-endowed pieces of metal, the glory of the Sicilian cities, now obscured, still shines forth fresh before us. […] Sicily and Nova Græcia give me hopes again of a fresh ex

Oct 308 min read

From Cassius to Cahn: The Hess Divo Story of a Remarkable Aureus

By Maxim Crispin The murder of the world’s most famous imperator, and the civil war that spurred the rise of one of history’s great...

May 146 min read

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