Herzfelder, Ernst Moritz (1865-1923)

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    Traianus, 98-117. Aureus, 101/102, Rome. Ex Herzfelder Collection. From Künker Auction 304 (2018), 1125.
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    by Hadrien Rambach

    Ernst Herzfelder was the director – with his uncle Robert – of the Viennese brewery Robert & Ernst Herzfelder & Co. A wealthy collector, his Roman coins were sold anonymously by Jacob Hirsch (auction XXIX – November 1910) and Brüder Egger (auction XLIII – April 1913), though his over-900 coins of Hadrian went to the Kunsthistorischer Museum. He was the uncle of the scholarly marchand-amateur Hubert Herzfelder (1911-1964), who had trained as a banker.

    In 1910, Jacob Hirsch auctioned off a large portion of the Herzfelder Collection anonymously in his auction 29.

    Bibliography:

    • Schweizer Münzblätter, vol. 13/14.56 (1964), pp. 166-167.
    • Hadrien Rambach, “Provenance glossary”, in Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 91: the George W. La Borde collection of Roman aurei – part I, Zurich, 23 May 2016, pp. [67]-[79].
    • Hadrien Rambach, “Provenance glossary”, in Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 99: the George W. La Borde collection of Roman aurei – part II, Zurich, 29 May 2017, pp. 47-63.
    • Hadrien Rambach, “Provenance glossary”, in Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 105: the George W. La Borde collection of Roman aurei – part III, Zurich, 9 May 2018, pp. 82-105.

    This article was first published in a catalogue of auction house Numismatica Ars Classica.