Mr. Reilly has been collecting coins for 20 years. He began in India when he was travelling there, He inherited a lange coin collection from Henry A. Rameden, a well-known numismatist, and with this impetus went into the coin collecting business serious:
Many of Mr. Reilly's latest. acquisition have come from the colleen tions of Chinese nobles, he saya, impoverished by the trend of events in Chinn since the country became republic, All of his coins and other art works which he brought back with him were purchased through an agent, Not once, he says, did he come face to face with the actual owners, The collector explained this by saying that the aristocracy disdain to soil their hands by buying or selling or by receiving foreigners in their homes!
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