Adolph Preiss (coin collector)

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Adolph Preiss (* unknown; † 1890 ) was a German-Baltic merchant and coin collector .

Preiss worked as a merchant in St. Petersburg . From 1848 he was a member of the Society for History and Antiquity of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia in Riga . He amassed an important collection of coins from the Baltic regions, which were auctioned in November 1874 together with the Gotthard Minus collection in Vienna.

literature

  • FI Wessner: The Gotthard Minus Thaler & Medal Collection. The Adolph Preiss collection of coins and medals from the Baltic provinces. Egger, Vienna 1874.
  • Franziskus Pärn: On the history of Livonian numismatics . In: Studia numismatica. Festschrift Arkadi Molvõgin 65. Tallinn 1995, p. 140.
personal data
SURNAME Preiss, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic merchant and coin collector
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century or 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 1890