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In 1747, the Augustinian Canon monastery of St Florian in Upper Austria acquired the coin collection of the Venetian scholar Apostolo Zeno. Over the years, several canons regular were appointed as custodians of the collection. In addition, numismatists from the environment of the Imperial coin cabinet were repeatedly involved with the collection: at the beginning, this included Erasmus Frölich, who had recommended the purchase of the collection, and Joseph Khell of Khellburg. Between 1760 and 1775, the canon regular Georg Pfisterer was in charge of the collection of St Florian. The paper gives an overview of the learned correspondence between Joseph Khell and Georg Pfisterer and then focuses on Khell’s Subplementum to Foy-Vaillant’s Numismata Imperatorum, in which monograph he published 70 coins of the former Zeno collection.